VHS transfer

[Wlengel]

During the capture of my VHS tapes a large loss of quality occurs. I am
using a ATI All in Wonder card for analog capture. Would I see better
results if I purchased a Canopus ADVC-100 box and install a Firewire card?

Bill

 

[Mike Movie]

Using another capture card will not improve the capture quality in this
case. A VHS tape can only be captured using analog, Firewire will not help
in this case.

That said, you should not see much quality degradation if you capture your
tape using a high-quality encoding profile. "Video for local playback (2.1
Mbps)" is the highest quality profile available in Movie Maker's Save Movie
Wizard. Note that more disk space is required for the higher quality
profiles.

Cheers,
Mike


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During the capture of my VHS tapes a large loss of quality occurs. I am
using a ATI All in Wonder card for analog capture. Would I see better
results if I purchased a Canopus ADVC-100 box and install a Firewire card?

Bill

 

[Wlengel]

Mike,
I was under the impression that the Canopus ADVC-100 was a analog to
digital convertor. If that is true I thought I would get almost the same
quality video as the VHS tape. Not true???

Bill

 

[Prilosec]

your captured video should be as good as the VHS tape was (not too great, as
you know). It should not really look worse than watching the tape itself.

 

[Graham Hughes]

Yes, the canopus advc will give better results, as the tv card saves in a
compressed format. Canopus build excellent units and they are very easy to
use. Miglia also are worth looking at, see the reviews page here
www.simplydv.com

Graham