Hello, everyone!
My name is Rafael and I am new to the forum.
I’ve been reading up for a while now many of the posts here pertaining VHS-to-digital conversion, as well as some of the guides on the main site. To be very honest, this has been the most resourceful and accessible place to find clear and straightforward information about VHS conversion I’ve ever come across. So, very happy to have found this website/forum.
For some time now I’ve been meaning to digitize my family’s 30+ year-old collection of home recordings, with a view of preserving their content from the erosions of time, as well as distributing those clips around to family-members.
Set upon pursuing that project I purchased online a capturing device (Canopus ADVC-110) and a cheap VCR (Toshiba model X798).
Now, I’ve come to know, thanks to a guide posted on this website, that a competent VHS-conversion workflow should necessarily include one decent VCR and a Time Base Corrector, an equipment I don’t think I had known to exist before reading about it on this site.
Fair enough. However, at this time, I cannot afford the TBC or a better VCR unit. And yet I still would like to create some digital files from those VHS tapes.
What to do??
My computer is a macbook pro mid-2012 with the latest MacOS Catalina. I have imovie, final cut pro and FFMPEG installed on this machine.
I intended to follow the instructions from this youtube tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_TDa9zY1c&t=798s - even digitized a couple of tapes based upon it - but I’ve come across some serious disapproval of this youtube guide in this forum. Just for my knowledge, what are the most egregious faults with what is being suggested up there?
Thank you for this for this forum and, in advance, for your advice. I wish you all the best in these times.