VHS to upscaled file workflow?
 

Hi all, I'm 110% new at this, my parents asked me for help to rip some old VHS and Video8 tapes from 30+ years ago and after an awful first go at it (got a Elgato Video Capture, captured it with its own software, came out like absolute crap) I did some reading and well... the rabbit hole is quite deep, deeper than my budget for sure :D

I got a bit of an idea what the workflow is but I've got some questions I haven't found an answer to.

Overall my setup is:

• Some crappy old tape recorder from the (LG LV3775, might have a LV190 I can get too from a relative) with scart out and a composite-scart adapter
• A Panasonic DMR-ES15 as a passthrough (got it for "parts" for 35€ off ebay but description metioned dvd was broken and I risked it, works fine and made the video from unwatchable wawy mess of vertical black bands to decent enough)
• Elgato video capture

for the Video8 I have a choice of either a Sony Video8 Handycam (the one used to record the tapes) or a Sony Video Walkman GV-S50E, but haven't thouched those yet.

The workflow I sort of figured out is...[*]Plug all of those in, press play[*]Record everything with VirtualDub 32bit 1.9.* in HuffYuv
but I don't know how to go from there...

I will store the lossless somewhere, but my parents want some files they can watch on the tv/phone/pc so I wanted to deinterpolate/upscale them but I am not sure in which order should I do it? Deinterpolate to a lossless format first and the upscale? Somehow do both at once? With what software?

Any help and/or links to guides I failed to find welcome!

Bonus Question: if I go in the ES15 in composite, does it make sense to go out in S-Video to the capture card or should I stick to composite?