Steps to do VHS -> DVD?

[radkid]

Hey All!

After reading various guides and posts tell me if i have this right... Maybe you all could give me some suggestions. Any would be appreciated!
There are the steps i have come up with to create a DVD from VHS tape.

1. Capture from VHS tape in virtual dub
2. Edit (cut commercials and add transitions) with Sonic Foundry vegas 4.0. Then export as AVI using DIVX 5.0.5 codec
3. Use TMPGEnc to encode to MPEG
4. Use dvd authoring software to create menus/backgrounds etc and create burnable file.
5. Burn and Test

What do ya think?
Thanks!

[Tommyknocker]

Video Studio -- Capture in MPEG, edit, burn.

[radkid]

Hey,
Thx for the reply!

You are saying use vegas 4.0 to capture in mpeg instead of capturing in virtual dub?


What is the benefit besides eliminating using virtual dub?

[willy_annand]

Hey All!
1. Capture from VHS tape in virtual dub
2. Edit (cut commercials and add transitions) with Sonic Foundry vegas 4.0. Then export as AVI using DIVX 5.0.5 codec
3. Use TMPGEnc to encode to MPEG
4. Use dvd authoring software to create menus/backgrounds etc and create burnable file.
5. Burn and Test

1. Capature using AVI_IO and save in HuffyUV.
2. Edit (cut commercials and add transitions) with Premiere and save in HuffyUV.
3. Use TMPGEnc to encode to MPEG
4. Use DVD Lab to author and burn DVD

Using Huffy, which is lossless keeps the quality high, I have found severe quality loss when usinf DivX.

DVD Lab is cheap ($100.00) and very powerful.

[willy_annand]

Video Studio -- Capture in MPEG, edit, burn.

Can you really get high quality capturing directly to MPEG?

Every time I tried, it did not look as good as TMPGEnc.

Of course, real time vs. 8 hours per hour of video.

But the results are better than the original VHS copy.

[Tommyknocker]

You only need one program (Video Studio) to do everything. You can even capture in AVI's Huffy if you like, as long as the codec is installed.

[housepig]

don't do the Divx conversion - there's no reason to.

Capture your .avi, edit it (if you're just editing out commercials, I would just do it in Virtualdub) and convert with TMPGenc.

Your mpeg encode should be the only encoding after the initial capture - all Divx is going to do is throw away information that TMPGenc is going to want later for the DVD encode.

I'll second authoring with DVD Lab - great app.

[housepig]

Willy -

You can capture direct to mpeg. But I'm with you - with my system, the direct captures I do are noticeably worse than capping as a Huffy avi and reencoding.

The only stuff I cap direct is stuff that's "soft" anyway (eg old VHS or Beta) where I don't care so much about quality vs. time.

but on anything I really want to preserve, my experience is avi first, mpeg second.

[radkid]

Hi,
Thanks for all the great info!

What i am reading is:

1. Capture in avi using HuffyUV codec
2. Edit and save using huffyUV coded
3. Encode in TMPGEnc
4. Use DVDLab to author and burn

[Tommyknocker]

Hehe. Did not read a word I posted. Oh well...

[radkid]

Video Studio -- Capture in MPEG, edit, burn.

Yeah thx, i read what you posted.

However there are many solutions and i have tried the video studio capture and i did not like it very much. I am just checking what other solutions are available, that's all.

[txpharoah]

Guide in my signature may help you out.