How we maintain original vido quality of vhs while we create dvd from it

[nusratjaveid]

Dear friends:
I have best video quality vhs. Iwant to creat dvd from these vhs cassettes.How i maintain original vido quality of vhs
while i create dvd from these vhs. An analogue tuner card will be effective or dvd recorder. Asus internal tuner card is in my computer. Ihave also Panasonic dvd recorder but it decreases the video quality of vhs videos. What software will be effective
with tuner card.

[yoda313]

Ihave also Panasonic dvd recorder but it decreases the video quality of vhs videos.

How much are you trying to fit on it? Put less on a dvdr than you can use a higher bitrate for a better picture quality. If you try to squeeze much more than 2 hours on a dvdr (single layer) the quality will start to degrade. Some "snobs" would argue you can't put more than an hour on dvdr without losing quality but that is a bit extreme in my opinion.

You can do more if you capture to a computer first since you'll be able to use a high bitrate and convert to a dual layer dvdr to maximize your bitrate.

If you want to make it simple use a capture card that can record directly to mpeg2. Set it to a high bitrate - 8mb/s for example. Than you can import that directly to a dvd authoring program and produce a dual layer dvdr that will maximize the available bitrate you can get for dvd.

https://www.videohelp.com/capture

You would capture with the software that came with your card. You can author with a freeware program like avstodvd which encodes with hcenc or quenc - two excellent mpeg encoders.

https://www.videohelp.com/author

If you haven't had much experience doing this on the computer follow the two videohelp links I have posted to get started.

[themaster1]

use Hcenc in 2pass mode, one of the best encoders i know,free at that.It work with avisynth scripts i suggest you learn how to make them at doom9's forum

[hech54]

Ihave also Panasonic dvd recorder but it decreases the video quality of vhs videos

No it doesn't. You are trying to put too much (too many hours) on one disc.

[jagabo]

If I remember correctly, Panasonic DVD recorders record at full D1 (720x576) when set to 4 hour per disc (single layer). With a noisy source like VHS that results in a lot of macroblocking. Stick with 1 hour per disc and you'll get much cleaner recordings. And obviously, avoid 6 and 8 hour modes which drop down to 352x288.

[sanlyn]

My Panasonic ES20 made some nice looking DVD transfers directly from VHS via s-video, and its MPEG filter did a fairly good clean-up, at 2-hour speed. That is, until I got to a really worn-out, noisy, faded tape. Those tapes required a whole lotta computer cleanup. At the 4-hour rate, forget it. Even a pristine signal will choke on low bitrates. My Toshiba RD-XS34 gets what you'd call "VHS EP quality" out of its 3 hour settings; forget about fine detail in that case, but motion handling, contrast, etc., look OK. Still, you wouldn't want to archive your favorite tapes at longer than 2 hours on consumer DVR's. Those long recording speeds are strictly utilitarian, not for the good stuff.