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    Originally Posted by RogerTango View Post
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    I’ve stuck with the cheap card for the time being ...
    I recommended the ClonerAlliance Box Evolve recording in stand alone mode, my previous experience is
    cheap capture cards = heart burn and headaches. Maybe its just me, but Ive had best luck with
    mainstream/name brand/tried & true solutions.

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    Yes, no need for a computer to capture, great device.
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    Originally Posted by RogerTango View Post
    I use the ClonerAlliance Box Evolve and record to memory card *in* the capture device, then edit/etc on my PC with a card reader.
    Even the Easycap (Easycrap) likely looks better. Yuck!
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  3. Originally Posted by RogerTango View Post
    I use the ClonerAlliance Box Evolve and record to memory card *in* the capture device, then edit/etc on my PC with a card reader. There are some USB concerns, maybe its just me and my setup, but loose sync when recording directly to my PC, so I just use the box in stand alone and everything works perfect.
    12voltvids purchased a ClonerAlliance box a month ago and he was impressed. He bought it to digitize his customers' tapes. He is a "consumer electronics repair technician with 40 years experience in the field of Audio, Television and VCR servicing" and a prolific youtuber with 134 thousand subscribers, so he does not have time to fiddle with encoder settings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83E3VXZibBw

    Responding to a comment that capturing using a better codec with higher bitrate would retain higher quality, he says, "if someone wants it in MP4 you then have to compress it and that's going to take another 30 minutes or so to take it 2 hour avi file and turn it into an mp4. So from a business perspective this is a no-brainer this allows real-time capture and the quality is more than acceptable." And he likes that no computer is needed. "If you are just doing your own and don't mind wasting a few hours scaling and rendering that's fine but when you are converting tapes for clients you can't be tying up the computer for hours on end digitizing and then rendering out files. Customers won't pay that much. Needs to be just play the tape and hand them a watchable file. People won't pay more. They want VHS and 8mm tapes copied for 10 bucks a pop. Can't do that using computer as computer is tied up for hours. This device will let me dump tapes to USB stick directly and hand to client. I don't care if i can make it 1or 2% better, this is more than good enough. that's how i stay in business. Most people's cameras or VCRs are broken."

    The downside of the box is that it deinterlaces and upscales whatever comes in into either 720p or 1080p. But for uploading to Youtube this is actually an upside.
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    The downside of the box is that it deinterlaces and upscales whatever comes in into either 720p or 1080p.
    and real-time h264 encoding. All this is far away from a quality capture.

    12voltvids purchased a ClonerAlliance box a month ago and he was impressed
    Impressed by the easy of usage and the "acceptable" quality of the capture. But here we have different (higher) standards and expectations for a "quality capture", and we always plan a further restoration on the capture

    Originally Posted by lordsmurf View Post
    Even the Easycap (Easycrap) likely looks better. Yuck!
    Agree.
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  6. Originally Posted by lollo View Post
    Originally Posted by lordsmurf View Post
    Even the Easycap (Easycrap) likely looks better. Yuck!
    Agree.
    At least when looking at the uploads from 12voltvids and vwestlife that they've captured with it it looks much nicer than cheap capture dongles like easycap or anything I've seen from those clear click standalone things. it even seems to maybe have some degree of tbc/jitter correction. It's not something ideal for like a digitizing business, but for the an average joe wanting to see their old videos and not caring that it's upscaled, overscan cropped off and deinterlaced, and wanting something very easy to use it seems like one of the best options.
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    Originally Posted by Bwaak View Post
    Responding to a comment that capturing using a better codec with higher bitrate would retain higher quality, he says, "if someone wants it in MP4 you then have to compress it and that's going to take another 30 minutes or so to take it 2 hour avi file and turn it into an mp4. So from a business perspective this is a no-brainer this allows real-time capture and the quality is more than acceptable." And he likes that no computer is needed. "If you are just doing your own and don't mind wasting a few hours scaling and rendering that's fine but when you are converting tapes for clients you can't be tying up the computer for hours on end digitizing and then rendering out files. Customers won't pay that much. Needs to be just play the tape and hand them a watchable file. People won't pay more. They want VHS and 8mm tapes copied for 10 bucks a pop. Can't do that using computer as computer is tied up for hours. This device will let me dump tapes to USB stick directly and hand to client. I don't care if i can make it 1or 2% better, this is more than good enough. that's how i stay in business. Most people's cameras or VCRs are broken."
    I agree 100%, The problem is, who discloses that to customers? This is exactly LegacyBox's business model, get video from tape to file in the fastest and cheapest manner regardless quality yet they advertise it as professional top notch quality. Yes most people are cheap, but they have the right to know if what they are paying for is not what they are getting.
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    Originally Posted by lordsmurf View Post
    Originally Posted by RogerTango View Post
    I use the ClonerAlliance Box Evolve and record to memory card *in* the capture device, then edit/etc on my PC with a card reader.
    Even the Easycap (Easycrap) likely looks better. Yuck!
    Thanks for the post, I actually laughed out loud... I needed a bit of humor in my day.

    Andrew

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    It reminds me that some snobs don't realize there are other people who do not have bottomless pockets
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    get video from tape to file in the fastest and cheapest manner regardless quality
    Yes; maybe lower quality is more appropriate then regardless quality, but this is what some people want, and without "bottomless pockets" as per last comments. Another league
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    Yes some, not all people that want cheap service want low quality though, As I said depends on how you advertise it.
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    Maybe it would be good if we would open a post where different errors that can occur when capturing are shown and what options there are to correct them.

    Then everyone could decide for himself whether he can tolerate the one or the other error or invest more money in better hardware.

    To name a few: Audio out of sync to the video, picture disturbances (Jitter, Tearing), head switching noise, chroma noise, Macrovision, Clipping etc.

    I think that many people don't know what to look for when capturing vhs videos.
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  12. Originally Posted by Bogilein View Post
    Maybe it would be good if we would open a post where different errors that can occur when capturing are shown and what options there are to correct them.
    There are quite a few at AV Artifact Atlas.

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    I had forgotten all about that page.

    Now we would only have to create a certain order starting from the worst case scenario (for me audio out of sync) and maybe also name recommended hardware or filters to correct these errors.

    Then everyone can decide for himself which correction he wants to make.
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    Originally Posted by RogerTango View Post
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    It reminds me that some snobs don't realize there are other people who do not have bottomless pockets
    You don't have to a lot much money to upgrade crap. It's not binary, good or bad. There are grades/levels of gear. But you must be willing to spend more than the price of a sandwich, and yet it doesn't have to be the price of a new car.

    Originally Posted by dellsam34 View Post
    Yes some, not all people that want cheap service want low quality though, As I said depends on how you advertise it.
    Most people don't want cheap quality, especially when they realize they can do better for the same funds or less. Many more falsely think VHS is bad, because of a crap service. Had better been an option, they'd have taken it.

    Originally Posted by Bwaak View Post
    12voltvids purchased a ClonerAlliance box a month ago and he was impressed.
    I began to be unimpressed with him when he started griping about AG-1980P decks. Yes, costly. Yes, PITA decks. But he mashed up too much in his rants, and made it seem like these were bad decks. BS. So now he's becoming anti-quality, it seems? Why not just buy an Easycap, and a VCR from Goodwill, if that's the attitude? (Rhetorical. Don't do that.)
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    Originally Posted by lordsmurf View Post
    Originally Posted by RogerTango View Post
    I use the ClonerAlliance Box Evolve and record to memory card *in* the capture device, then edit/etc on my PC with a card reader.
    Even the Easycap (Easycrap) likely looks better. Yuck!
    That's why i like your videos on your Youtube channel….Lordsmurf !
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  16. I’ve just bought an es10 to use as a tbc, I’ve got a better 6 head vcr on the way but Im really struggling with what capture card to buy.

    I want to avoid the cheap chinese shite but that said, I want something readily available and I don't want to spend a fortune just yet, I can always upgrade my card and equipment, when or if I get the hang of capturing.

    Im using windows 11 and apparently both the Diamond vc500 and the Hauppauge usb-live2 are compatible. I’ve read that the hauppauge doesnt capture sound so Im thinking of going with the vc500 as I fear that capturing sound seperately will be too complicated for me at the moment. What do you guys think? Is there another option that I’ve overlooked? Im on win11 and am PAL (uk) if that makes a difference?

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    I’ve read that the hauppauge doesnt capture sound
    Where did you read that?
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    @ Leanoric You can also forget using a computer to capture, there are other devices… BlackMagic Design Analog to SDI converter, and Video Assist monitor/recorder this way you can record with a professional codec that is made for "the edit room" (ProRes422) the LT version codec will not put much strain on your pc/laptop while editing in post, and is enough for VHS quality.
    With such a setup there will be no errors baked in, levels for PAL or NTSC are correctly (to) set, with consumer capture devices video levels can be all over the place also because you have no option to set these… A computer is not a good device to capture video, it can unintentional slowdown the capture process and have frames dropped, storage media can be too slow during the capture, which also causes frames to drop, there are not really good consumer capture devices, in some area they will always fail, good computer capture internal cards, you can find in the more pro brands, and these will also support up to date operating systems
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  19. Originally Posted by lollo View Post
    I’ve read that the hauppauge doesnt capture sound
    Where did you read that?
    Somebody that reviewed it said that it doesn't capture sound, I take it he was wrong then?
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  20. Originally Posted by Eric-jan View Post
    @ Leanoric You can also forget using a computer to capture, there are other devices… BlackMagic Design Analog to SDI converter, and Video Assist monitor/recorder this way you can record with a professional codec that is made for "the edit room" (ProRes422) the LT version codec will not put much strain on your pc/laptop while editing in post, and is enough for VHS quality.
    With such a setup there will be no errors baked in, levels for PAL or NTSC are correctly (to) set, with consumer capture devices video levels can be all over the place also because you have no option to set these… A computer is not a good device to capture video, it can unintentional slowdown the capture process and have frames dropped, storage media can be too slow during the capture, which also causes frames to drop, there are not really good consumer capture devices, in some area they will always fail, good computer capture internal cards, you can find in the more pro brands, and these will also support up to date operating systems
    Thanks Eric, I just had a look at the BlackMagic and I’m not really sure how to go about using something like that, I’ll have to have a read up on it and see how its used. I think a capture card may be the easier option for me at the moment.
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    I take it he was wrong then
    Yes. Have you read the forum about this topic and looked to capture samples?

    I think a capture card may be the easier option for me at the moment.
    And a better option as well
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    IO Data GV-USB2.

    Works great with Win 10, I haven't tried it with Win 11.
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    Don't use BlackMagic analog to SDI converters, they are not made for noisy consumer video sources.
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    Originally Posted by dellsam34 View Post
    Don't use BlackMagic analog to SDI converters, they are not made for noisy consumer video sources.
    The noise you don't see on a CRT or low quality capture device.
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  25. Originally Posted by Alwyn View Post
    IO Data GV-USB2.

    Works great with Win 10, I haven't tried it with Win 11.

    I’ve read somewhere that it doesnt like win 11.


    This is so frustrating trying to workout what will work with win 11 and vdub and obs, theres so many conflicting reviews and opinions out there. I’m getting to the point where I’m tempted to just get an elgato and use their software, probably better than buying something that wont work at all.
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  26. Well to make matters even worse, I’ve just looked at all the family camcorder tapes I’ve got, and they're mini dv and not hi8. I thought all along that I’d be able to capture them in the same way as the vhs tapes and maybe transfer some to dvd with the es10. Definitely no firewire port on my new win 11 pc. My own fault for not checking them properly. Not really sure what to do now, maybe its time to give up.
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  27. Originally Posted by Leanoric View Post
    Well to make matters even worse, I’ve just looked at all the family camcorder tapes I’ve got, and they're mini dv and not hi8. I thought all along that I’d be able to capture them in the same way as the vhs tapes and maybe transfer some to dvd with the es10. Definitely no firewire port on my new win 11 pc. My own fault for not checking them properly. Not really sure what to do now, maybe its time to give up.
    It's more than likely their mini dv camcorder will have rca/s-video output, so you could still capture that way. I've captured with my JVC mini dv camcorder both ways to compare quality.

    But depending on your PC, if you have a mobo with available pci slot it's pretty easy to buy a firewire PCI card for under $20.
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    If your VCR has no DV input at the front, you could also look for a vcr , or dvd-recorder that has a DV input at the thrift store for less than $20,
    a dvd recorder on it's own with DV input, will give you already a stable video signal to capture or record, only the nit-pickers can still protest for DV color quality degrading……

    Your MiniDV camcorder should have normal s-video/composite audio connections or a special cable to connect to provide these connections, the special cable is mostly brand depending, some times it's a 3.5 kind of headphone plug where you can figure out yourself how to get these in to a DIY cable, s-video would be tricky…. best to google such a cable for pin-out if connector is standard. top ring sleve to rca
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    firewire PCI card for under $20.
    And PCIe firewire cards are available. I have one ready to go into my new computer.

    I thought all along that I’d be able to capture them in the same way as the vhs tapes and maybe transfer some to dvd with the es10.
    The ES-15 and many later DVD-VHS combos and DVD recorders have DV-In. You might get a good result burning straight to DVD from DV; use maximum quality. An alternative workflow is to copy them all onto DVD and then rip the DVD to MPEG onto your computer then edit them. Depends on how far you want to go with editing (cutting out the cr@p, adding titles, music.

    A limited test I did some time ago with a Digital 8 video (same quality/system as DV) compared a DV capture with a firewire card and using the S-Video cable (as mentioned by Xhumeka) and VDub into Lagarith codec. I really could not tell the difference.

    Re the GV-USB2 and Windows 11, Nicholas here didn't have any problems:
    https://www.amazon.com/DATA-connection-video-capture-GV-USB2/product-reviews/B00428BF1...t&pageNumber=1

    I will find out in a couple of months when I make up my new machine.
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  30. Ok I’ll give capture a go when I get a card and see how it looks, I’ve seen people say that they havent been happy with the results from capture and that you need firewire but we’ll see. It depends on the capture card and software used I suppose. Someone on youtube made a video showing people how to do it, she then says in the comments that she gave up after a few tapes because the quality was bad, she was using a dazzle device.

    Its annoying that I’ve just bought an es10, if I’d done my homework properly I would have gone for the es15 with dv port. Im pretty sure that the vcr Im getting hasnt got it either, I’ll have to check.

    My pc is cheap and prebuilt so I dont think I could use a firewire card, not that Id even know how to fit and install one.
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