VHS or Hi-8 to DVD

[stecj]

I have been very succesful at recording live TV and burning to DVD, however my VHS or HI-8 burns look horrible.

I think it has to be dropped frames based on everything I have read here, but noone has specifically addressed going from VHS to HD to DVD... I don't want to compress to VCD format at all. Just want 2 hour home video to fit on a DVD.

I am using Ulead Video Studio 6 and WinDVR currently. They make excellent DVDs from TV... haven't messed with much else.

Any help would be appreciated as the whole reason I bought all of this is to tape the hmoe movies.

For what it's worth, the computer I'm using is dedicated to this purpose and I send it over the network to my main machine to burn... so stripping it down is not a problem if that is what it will take.

Thanks for any help you offer,

Stecj

[solarfox]

If you're able to capture live TV without dropped frames, you shouldn't be having any problem with tapes. Aside from the TV tuner section itself, which is bypassed when you capture from an analog composite ot S-video input, the same circuitry is involved in digitizing the video, and the data follows the same path from the capture board to the hard drive, so there shouldn't be any difference in the capture quality...

...unless the tapes are so degraded that your sync signals are really screwed up and the board can't lock on to the video. In which case, fiddling with your PC configuration isn't going to help; you may need to look into buying a time-base corrector to repair the sync signals.