I have a bunch of vhs movies that don't have vhsrips on the internet yet, so im looking to digitize them. anyone with experience doing this have any recommendations? There's so many of these products and I don't want to waste money on a shit one.
>>1540193VHS player. Analogue video capture card. They've made approximately zero improvements in capture cards in the last 15 to 20 years because of the move to digital broadcasts. Even 20 years ago the good ones were all based off the same chip.Player needs to have a stereo head if you have stereo recordings. SCART or component video is better if you have a video player that supports it so get a device to support it too. You can get USB capture devices rather than cards. Hauppauge is fine. Used to be one of the go to brands.Capture in a lossless format like HuffYUV. You'll get huge files but you can edit them easily with no loss of quality. Go easy on any denoise. Once you're ready choose a compressed format with a good but not over the top quality, it's analogue and even worse VHS, so maintaining all that fine detail isn't the biggest problem.If it's old tv broadcasts, consider keeping the advertisements somewhere, even if at a lower quality. When you taped VHS you wanted to get rid of ads to save tape but now they have nostalgic interest as well as historical.
>>1540193This. There are a few different models from Sony, Magnavox, Phillips, etc. with varying levels of resolution outputs. I have this machine and have done well over a thousand tapes. It's nice to have the hard copy DVD backup, and I use Handbrake to rip from DVD to MKV.https://www.amazon.com/Sony-RDR-VXD655-Recorder-Combo-Built/dp/B000PGDT8O
wtf is a vhs ?
>>1540208>>1540217thank you!
>>1540308You're welcome. Using the VHS to DVD sounds a bit easier than capturing to comptuer since I assume it's a one touch process to make the disc, but either way it's still a hefty job. imo pretty much every name brand capture device out there is reasonable and comparable to what we had 2 decades ago. it can be a heft job with lots of tapes so I hope you have fun doing it.
