Which capture path - S-video or RCA

[beammeup]

Hi,

I'm about to capture quite a few VHS tapes.

I'll capture them using a Canopus capture card with both Svideo & RCA inputs.

The tape deck I'm using is a dedicated SVHS unit, so should I go ahead and capture using the Svideo to Svideo connections or just use the standard rca to rca ones?

Will I get a better quality capture with the Svideo route, eventhough the video tapes are just standard VHS.

Thanks,

I've done plenty of digital firewire capture before from cameras, but this is my first attempt of capturing from a tape deck.

Cheers
Scott

[dar dorn]

Svideo is better than RCA cable connections when available.

[SatStorm]

S-Video all the way...

[MrMungus]

Definitely s-video. I did a capture comparison between s-video and composite a few weeks ago and found out that composite connections resulted in DVDs with a significant amount of "smear" on bright areas (e.g.., people's foreheads) that simply never showed up on the s-video versions even after a lot of captures to make sure the test results were consistient.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Comparison: http://multimedian.com/pcv/school/svideo.html

[harjo02]

I'm using Pinnacle PCTV capture card and I seem to get a video/audio sync problem when using RCA from VCR but I haven't noticed a sync prob from Hi8 video camera via S-video. It never occurred to me until this post but could my transfer (RCA/S-video) have anything to do with sync probs??? I was under the impression that there was nothing I could do and it was a function of the card.

Any help?????? My VHS are rotting because I can't xfer w/out sync issues.

Thanks!!!

[SatStorm]

This has nothing to do with the cables.

You can avoid lipsynch problems if you follow some well known hardware "rules" and some well known capture programs (virtualdub for example).