some questions regaurding hardware video editors?

[kopmjj]

Hi 1st of all are hardware video editors better than software editors and plugins ? for color enahncement,black levels sharpening etc?

also if i have a video that has TBC error on my pc but if i transfer it back on a vhs will the TBC hardware fix the errors? as i know you cant fix it with software on a pc or will i still need the original vhs for this to work?

i have so many bad footages on my pc which i would like to enahnce but they take so long like 8 hours for a 5 min clip etc, can i tranfer them on a vhs and use the hardware video editor to enhance it and capture back to pc?
do the hardware editors work on the fly and will it save me much more time?

its just i dont want to spend 8 hours fixing a 5 min clip and spend so much money on software videdo editors like after effects etc.

also for my situation i have all my video files on pc so do you recomend me buying hardware ediors or recomend me using softwares instead?

sorry for assking silly questions but i have to find these out in the meantime im reading the forums.

[kopmjj]

anyone? is it possible to restore and enahnce files from pc with hardware video processors? like even if i tranfer files to vhs from pc then use hardware?

[filmboss80]

Your question is counter-intuitive, as you talk about enhancing the quality of the video, but sending it back to VHS, which will destroy the quality.

You need to learn about the analog-to-digital process. If you transfer and edit in the analog realm alone, you vastly degrade the picture quality. A TBC will be needed to correct analog errors, but once the video footage is captured to a PC (the digital realm), it is no longer needed.

Also, After Effects is not a video editor. To put it briefly, it is primarily a special effects tool. Look at Video Editor choices under the Tools section of this website.

A needed piece of hardware will be the analog video capture device to get your VHS footage digitized into your PC. After you get the footage into your computer, that's when the editing software is needed. As far as output, DVD will give you vastly superior quality than going back out to VHS.

There are a hundred other things I should say to educate you, but frankly I don't have the time.

As you are posting your question on Easter and Passover holidays, don't expect many people here to spend the time required to explain everything to you right now. Wait a few days.

[zoobie]

another great read is the glossary on the upper left hand menu

[lordsmurf]

None of that is possible, no.