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  1. Hello!

    I want to digitize a huge VHS collection.

    I have a Mac Mini (Late 2012, 2.3GHz, i7, Quad-Core, 16 GB RAM) with firewire input.
    I also have a high quality Panasonic SVHS recorder
    and a Canopus ADVC-100 firewire capture device.

    I could capture everything to DV format first, and convert to h264 later, but this would be space and time consuming.

    QuickTime can do some sort of realtime h264 capturing, but it downsamples to 640x480, deinterlaces the footage and has a fixed low quality bitrate.

    I would like to capture directly to h264 in full PAL resolution (without deinterlacing if possible).

    Can you recommend a simple no frills capture software,
    that will allow me to do realtime h264 capturing from my Canopus firewire device
    in full PAL resolution with high quality?

    Thanks in advance,
    Aleksandar
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    FFMpeg is a "swiss knife" for video conversion and capturing, but you'll have to learn some keys and parameters to make it work (so it's not really streamlined).

    Here you will find more information about the configuration (video_size parameter in particular).
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