I have two vcr
one is a medical video recoder,SVHS with disturb correction,hifi stereo and a lot of features
model mitsubishi hs-md3000
other one is a normal LG home vcr,model is LV4685
http://vis.mitsubishielectric.co.uk/products/ip_solutions/printing/hs-md3000e
Wich is better in your opinion for vhs capture/rip?
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Last edited by heyheyhey; 9th May 2014 at 12:53.
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Since you say you have both of them, why not just try them both and see? The "better" machine may be in far worse condition. Use a small section of the same tape.
(BTW, you can't rip a VHS, you can dub, copy, digitize, capture or ingest it.) -
Indeed, you need to test out tapes on them. Many medical VCRs were modified by Biomedical technology companies to handle fluoroscopic and sonographic signals; and as a result will not play standard signals for home television systems. Make sure you don't have one of those.
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I have tested both,home vcr give better picture but on old vhs give alligned heads problem,medical vcr doesn't give problems on this
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The stable image is from medical vcr
the disturbed one is from home vcr
I see better colour in home,and better clearness on medicalLast edited by heyheyhey; 9th May 2014 at 14:56.
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Sounds like you need to proceed on a tape by tape basis -- not so unusual. When you say the colors are dark how are you judging this, with a waveform and vectorscope, a properly calibrated monitor...?
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If watching that picture pleases you, it's your right and your choice. Enjoy.
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While I think it needs tweaking in AVISynth afterwards (dyn range, saturation, some moire, etc), I personally like the medical Svhs vcr better.
Here's an idea - why don't you use BOTH?! Transfer both to file, edit head+tail so they match frames exactly, clean them up in AVISynth (as best as possible for their own internal faults), then do an AVERAGE/MEDIAN of the 2. Common/similar parts (which are usually the good parts) will ~double in strength vs. the noise.
BTW, I notice that the last example does NOT show frames from the same moment.
Scott -
I have four main VCRs that I capture with, and any one can do better than the other three on a given tape. (And can be yet another machine that just does the audio part better...)
VHS is a chaotic format. Therefore, such irregularities, or defying of gravity or logic, are more rule than exception and have no rhyme or reason to them. I wouldn't be surprised if your LG will outperform the Mistubishi from time to time. And in post-processing, many flaws can be corrected from either machine (such as the color, noise and crosstalk problems in your pics), so it's not a straightforward answer you'll get here on which one machine to capture with.
So I say, like others, use BOTH, and compare. You can test with a small segment before the big capture.
Or, you can go ahead and do multiple complete captures, and edit out a "best of" in an editing timeline, or like Cornucopia brought up, you can use averaging, or even blending/median techniques with AviSynth.I hate VHS. I always did. -
Last edited by PuzZLeR; 11th May 2014 at 23:52.
I hate VHS. I always did. -
I don't like either.
If this is a serious endeavor, get a better VCR.Want my help? Ask here! (not via PM!)
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They look horribly oversmoothed to me. But I believe that's whatever you're doing on the digital side, not the VCRs.
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Is that last one from the Mistubishi? Maybe "not oversmoothed", but looks overprocessed. But, I could be wrong because it's only a picture.
One frame can be deceptive in using it as inference to the quality of the video at large. If you need better advice, you need to post video samples. Capture something raw and post.
Even so, one tape could look better with your LG and the other can with the Mitsubishi. It's not so straightforward anyway, but we can try.I hate VHS. I always did. -
It's processed nice and clean, and very similar to what JVC higher end machines do with some tapes. IMO the tapes that works very well with these types of VCRs (Mistubishi high end and JVC high end) are indeed commercial or professional tapes.
However, I don't like that processed look with EP, or older TV recordings, or similar.I hate VHS. I always did. -
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