Suggestions on VHS to DVD

[buick]

Im getting geared up to try converting my old 10-15 year old vhs tapes over to dvd. I bought a Jvc
HR-S9600 and wouldnt mind using my JVC DR-M10 DVD recorder to do the recording and put onto DVDrw and dump to the computor to author (would like suggestions in easy but decent dvd author software ?) to DVD. These tapes are getting in poor condition and want to do right the first time and throw away.

1. Am I doing the capture the best way or should I get a video capture card? The captures I have tried
I setup for 90min record settings in recorder and have played back on the big screen and dont look to good.

2. I realize garbage in garbage out, but is there software to clean the video or capture to get better qaulity?

3. My process now is to capture to dvd recorder then dump to computor using vob2mpeg,then mpg2cut to cut out sections and a few various dvd authouring softwares.

Im open for suggestions from people that has done what Im doing. This way has worked okay and I understand that the video Im working with is pretty old. I have found using the dvd recorder has saved me lots of encoding time but is there a big loss in video doing it this way?

Thanks for any help

[SingSing]

1. Capture with DVD recorder to DVD-RW is the way to go. Capture card result is about the same, and more likely to have audio sync problem, and occassion drop frames.

2. The original recording is always the best. Video enhancement with software often add artifact. My playback VCR has 3D and Noise filter, with s-video output, and that give me the better result.

3. I use TMPGenc DVDauthor. The key is not to re-encode the video, to preserve video quality.

[JimboS]

You say your tapes are in poor condition........
How do you know?????????
Could it be your VCR player??????????
There are many and I have them also , VHS tapes that are many years old and still play fine........

Make a bet....you do your conversions...
Hold on to some of the VHS tapes for another 10-15 years. keep them safe of course...
and see what still plays...
Assumming you still have a VCR..........
I'll bet they still work....
DVD's that are "home burned" are still questionable as to their longevity......

[pepegot1]

That JVC does a great job and improves the quality of your tapes. That's the way to go! Use a stabilizer, if your VHS has macrovision. The JVC is not going to turn crap into a work of art, but on some marginal tapes, I have seen noticeable improvement.

[buick]

Thanks everyone for the input and sounds like Im pretty on track on the way I was doing it. I am using the s-video inputs and bought this vcr just for operation. I have around 35 tapes to do, so It will get a work out, I also found yesterday a video setting on the vcr menu to change the video setting to sharp from soft which seems to look better.And I agree about not to re-encode, just will lose quality.
I'll start dumping these tapes to dvds and get started and will look into TMPG DVDauthor.
Thanks again

1. Capture with DVD recorder to DVD-RW is the way to go. Capture card result is about the same, and more likely to have audio sync problem, and occassion drop frames.

2. The original recording is always the best. Video enhancement with software often add artifact. My playback VCR has 3D and Noise filter, with s-video output, and that give me the better result.

3. I use TMPGenc DVDauthor. The key is not to re-encode the video, to preserve video quality.

[Marvingj]

Very Important don't throw your originals away, never know when you may need it, a lot of people get caught up in things and then realize later I don't have my original copy.