Few years ago I captured my old family videos from VHS-C tapes using VC500 device and all the guidance provided by Lordsmurf, Sanlyn and others on this forum. Thanks to all.
Originally I was capturing and converting to DV AVI with Canopus ADVC100, but thanks for advising, I switched to Diamond VC500 and ATI 600, using
VirtualDub,
HuffYUV.
I ended up with VC500 even this required to adjust levels (AGC issues) for each tape or at least to monitor. I did not like ATI 600 since it was clipping blacks (superblacks) and clipped details cannot be recovered.
JVC player with TBC was used.
The time came to start watching those videos on TV, burn on Blu Ray for distributing to others.
There is no time to play using Avisynth deinterlacing with QTGMC, resizing, applying filters.
I just want simply cut unwanted scenes with no editing, and encode with H264 for watching on TV using media player (OPPO 95) and burn on Blu Ray for distribution.
Looking for advice on what format to use converting/compressing those archival master videos with H264, using Power Director 16.
Few things I was considering (please comment):
1. Since there will not be any editing using Avisynth, its filters that require deinterlaced video - no need to deinterlace.
2. It is actually a good thing to not deinterlace with SW since HW players during playback perform deinterlacing better than even QTGMC (was mentioned on this forum if I am not mistaken).
OPPO 95 output is set to produce 1080 60p.
3. It will follow a rule to keep material interlaced as far as possible.
2. H264 can take and encode Interlaced video with similar picture quality as progressive.
3. I can use 25MBps bitrate for 1920x1080 59.94i H264 encoder settings (using Power Director), that would be also valid specs for authoring Blu Ray.
4. Some archived lossless
HuffYUV AVI files are 25fps from PAL VHS tapes. To keep thigs simple, not to change players’ output format setting, the most sense would be to encode 25fps videos to 59.94i, not the 50i. This will eliminate one more conversion that has to be done by OPPO.
5. The big question how Power Director handles rescaling to 1920x1080, since it is not a good thing to resize interlaced video, is it going to deinterlaced, rescale and reinterlace to have interlaced material and encode with H264? It is hard to believe.
Looking for your comments and advice.