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Re: VHS Transfers?
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2011, 06:11:54 PM »
Just for clarification when you guys say 300 you are referencing something like this guy: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/308864-REG/Grass_Valley_602050_ADVC300_Bi_Directional_Analog_.html right?

And then whats a good capture card to look at? Or would I not need one with something like and just get the video/audio from the FireWire output?

Yes, it acts as the capture card.  Nothing else needed

You gonna get one and help me digitize my rare masters collection?   ;D
More than likely I will end up buying one. Just made sure my new motherboard still has a firewire port on it too. I have a number of old home videos that my father took when my brother and I were children that I would love to get onto DVD at least. As far as helping your cause, well I have never done this stuff before, so Im going into this total noob. Im just hoping I can figure out how to get a good result from my home videos. Im a fast learner. If I feel confident with that perhaps we can work something out.

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« Reply #16 on: July 19, 2011, 11:54:29 AM »
Got my ADVC300 on its way.

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« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2011, 03:11:54 PM »
nice!
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« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2011, 04:55:45 PM »
So who wants to recommend a good VCR for outputting these VHS tapes to the AVCD300? I have one, even had S-Video out IIRC, but I dont recall any info on it at the moment. What should I be looking at and why?

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« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2011, 05:18:24 PM »
JVC is pretty much the ultimate, but they can get pricey.  I just used a Sony DVD/VHS combo for mine.
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« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2011, 09:03:43 PM »
If you have S-Video out than thats what you will want to use.And a Time Base Corrector.Dont expect magic though,you will never get better quality than what your source is.You CAN sometimes stretch the quality in post production.Good luck and maybe if you get it dialed in you could help the original poster get some of his tapes digitized and i will see what i can do to clean them up and author to dvd from your files.

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« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2011, 11:27:12 PM »
you can get pretty darn close with the AVDC 300 though.  it has TBC built in.

also, it's 2011.  Don't author to DVD, that just loses quality.  Keep it digital, author to h.264 or something.
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« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2011, 01:17:56 PM »
Well Ill give a try guys and see what I can do with my old home videos first.

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« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2011, 10:31:13 PM »
Okay, seems I was mistaken. The VCR I have is a GE and it only has composite out. So, I know I need an S-Video out one and Im hearing JVCs are the best, what are some model numbers I should be looking for?

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« Reply #24 on: July 21, 2011, 12:09:30 AM »
any 4 head that you can get your hands on.  But if you look for "the best" you'll probably end up spending $200.  Some of those last VCR's even have digital coax output I think.
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« Reply #25 on: July 22, 2011, 02:49:28 AM »
Hmmm... buddy of mine has a Sony 4 head with s-video out that I might end up using.

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Re: VHS Transfers?
« Reply #26 on: July 22, 2011, 10:29:09 AM »
Hmmm... buddy of mine has a Sony 4 head with s-video out that I might end up using.

There you go.  S-Video is the best route to take for picture quality.  I've gotten excellent results from composite, but if you've got an option to use the best method, why not take it...
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« Reply #27 on: July 22, 2011, 10:33:04 AM »
yeah.  S-Video is like composite, but it also adds in brightness setting, I think.
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« Reply #28 on: August 02, 2011, 09:11:04 AM »
Realistically - with old VHS tapes - whether you use an S-Video out or composite outs with RCA cables - it ain't gonna make that much difference (if any at all).  If you already have a VCR that still functions well - I'd give it a shot with that first.  If you don't like the results - borrow your buddy's Sony.

In my experience - the key to making these old videos look nice is color correction.  They tend to have a brownish orange tint to them.  You can fix that in post with a decent NLE.
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Re: VHS Transfers?
« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2011, 10:47:58 PM »
Ended up picking up a like new condition JVC HR-S7300U with built in TBC and DNR. With that fed into the ADVC300 via S-Video into Premiere hopefully I can get some very good results. Well see. VCR comes early next week so well see...

 

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