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Originally Posted by chazcon
Hello, I've scoured these forums and I understand that I'd get the best results from a Windows XP machine with AGP slot to take an ATI 600 card.
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I'd suggest you continue your research. the ATI 600 is not an AGP capture card. It's USB.
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Originally Posted by chazcon
What I have is a JVC HR-S9500U VCR that I just had repaired by Jots (GREAT service btw), an AV Toolbox AVT-8710 TBC, and a Windows 10 computer.
I know, I know... but what capture card would give me best results with my existing hardware?
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My condolences on Windows 10, but the other hardware should serve you well. If you have 4-hour or 6-hour tapes, you might want to add a Panasonic player to your toolbox. The JVC 9500 looks pretty much like an average VCR on slow speed tapes, but it's better than a cheapie.
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Originally Posted by chazcon
Something like a Hauppauge Colossus 2?
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Horrors! Lossy stuff, and the wrong tool for the job. I'd suggest the Hauppauge USB Live-2 or Diamond Multimedia's VC500 USB, both with W10 drivers, both suitable for lossless capture, both optimized for VHS source.
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Originally Posted by chazcon
I'll edit the video in DaVinci Resolve and burn to DVD's for the family.
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Great editing tool for cut-and-join work. But your tape will still look like tape, not like digital video, with compression artifacts added to boot. Editors are not repair and restoration tools. DaVinci can do a neat job on color (assuming you've captured with legal input signal levels and can switch between YUV, RGB, and YV12 cleanly and without degradation, which are things you should already know about if you intend to use high-falootin' software like DaVinici). But it can't do anything with the flood of typical VHS defects: tape noise, head-switching noise, general analog playback floating grunge, frame hops, dropouts (spots, blotches, rips, ripples, horizontal tears), chroma noise, rainbows, excessive interlace combing or buzzing telecined edges, DCT ringing, even if the 9600 can help smooth some of that stuff (but not nearly all of it).
Likely you also know about working with lossless media if you intend to maintain the kind of quality levels you hope to get with software like DaVinci. With the proper cleanup in Avisynth or
VirtualDub, DaVinci can help you meet your expectations. Otherwise, lacking lossless capture and without suitable post-capture processing, results will be fairly average. DaVinci won't help much with quality issues in that case, but you can make the colors look nice.
Good luck with your project. I wish I had a mere 40 tapes when I started, instead of 300-plus of the darned things. But some of us are just gluttons for punishment I guess.