EP tapes: Is transport or TBC more important?
Trying not to break my budget on capture equipment. Nearly all the tapes in question are old, recorded in EP (NTSC), cared for poorly, and were usually the cheapest blanks we could get (a lot of the absolute cheapest 8-hour Sony tapes, and some weird off-brands alongside the usual suspects). Testing has shown that there are going to be a lot of dropouts in audio in at least one channel.
What is likely to give me better results if I have to choose: a pre-TBC Panasonic or prosumer JVC (like an AG-1960U or an HR-S6900U), or a one of the lesser professional JVCs w/ TBC? Also less of a pressing question since I have both and can just test, but would you expect better quality from an HVR-1800 or a Theater 650? Many thanks! |
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Both line TBC and transport strongly matter for EP. There are some pretty strong inherent timing errors as well as the tracking issues that affect both video and audio. Quote:
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Knowing my luck it'll break completely when I've got 5 tapes left. :laugh:
Yeah, most of them were originally recorded over coax onto a consumer JVC or Goldstar (which would never track each other's tapes properly). The oldest were recorded on a top-loading Panasonic that was part of a camcorder set! Oh we knew nothing about connection quality back then... I actually have taken a crack at this before with a non-TBC prosumer JVC, running S-video into the Theater 650 via S-video, and got some nice quality (better than EP has a right to be)... I probably got lucky. But that was off the good tapes... the bad ones need a lot more help. A couple stills from those grabs: https://imgur.com/BQwxRoz https://imgur.com/NGHEOEs Well thanks very much for the reply and info. I do miss the SR-V30Us we had in college. Do you think I'd have a good outcome with an HR-S7800 if I could snag one? |
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