Confirmation of process for capturing from VHS to archive

[Fatteh]

I have trawled through this forum and think I've got a handle on how to go about archiving my VHS footage on the computer, but there is a lot of different advice and I'm a complete novice, so any comments on the below would be appreciated.

PAL capture is from a low-end VCR via composite, passed through a Panasonic DVD recorder (to correct horrid timing errors), to a USB-Live2. I'm happy with the video quality from this. So for archiving, I gather a simple path would be to capture using vdub with HuffyYUV (720x576, 25 FPS, YUY2 source) to create an AVI file without any filtering? Then use a copy of this file to play around with post-processing in vdub (or other programme) and encode as MPEG-2 or similar for sharing and web use?

I'll start with settings similar to those danno78 posted a while back, with Fast Recompress and audio sourced from the USB-Live2:

At Video tick:
Overlay,
Video Source> composite Capture Pin > 25 Frame rate, Color space YUY2, Output size 720x576
Capture Filter: Filters properties > you can raise the volume up to 255, Video decoder > Pal
Crossbar: Video Composite In
Output > Audio Decoder Out = audio line in <Input, Also tick Related Link Stream
Compresion > Huffyuv or Lagarith

At Audio tick these:
Enable audio capture
Volume meter
Don`t tick Enable Audio Playback during capture because you get dropped frames
Capture Device
Source Audio> Audio Line

At Capture tick only > Timing > Do not resync between audio and video stream
Automatically disable resync when integrated audio / video capture is detected

From the File> Set Capture File

Does this all sound reasonable?

[jagabo]

Yes.