Your Solutions and Advice for Capturing

[SixFiftyThree]

Hi,
I'm a newbie to the analogue capture process. Had been meaning to do it for a long time, and finally got around to it. After looking into the various methods, I decided to try out a cheap USB capture device first. So I purchased a Kaiser Baas "Video to DVD Maker" device; together with the "Magix Video Easy' software, it actually functions faultlessly. Of course, the quality leaves something to be desired, but I never intended to use the software it came with. Neither do I intend to transfer these videos to DVD, but rather store them on my PC in the best quality possible. Fortunately, I found the device to be compatible with VirtualDub, and hopefully, I can achieve a satisfactory result with it.

Onto the topic...
Firstly, I've had no prior experience with VirtualDub before. I've tried to educate myself on it though, as well as the transfer process, but honestly the amount of information is overwhelming. Doom9's VDub tutorial doesn't seem to fully match what I have in version 1.9.11 either. Thus I decided to post here, for some direct answers, and I hope you guys can help me out. Here goes...

After getting my device running in VDub, I started making some captures. It's here that the Timing issue came up, and after many tests, I still can't fully resolve it. On my first attempts, the audio was obviously out of sync. After fumbling around with options, and finally unchecking the "Correct video timing for fewer drops/inserts" option, it was near-perfect. It seems that was the only option needed to fix it, however, it still wasn't quite enough. I captured the same footage with it using the pack-in "Video Easy" Software, and managed to get perfect sync with it. So clearly the device has the capability to do it, but so far, not in VDub. I should mention, Video Easy is encoding in MPEG-2, but in VDub I'm capturing AVI with "No recompression: YUY2". So, is it the right codec I need to obtain perfect sync?
I'd also like to know what codecs are best to use, for an unnoticeable loss in quality, but also adequate for editing purposes. At the moment, the file sizes are huge; growing something around 1GB a minute. While I have the space to handle them, directly recording onto a 1TB external, I can see it posing a problem when I get around to editing. One I downloaded and tried was HuffYUV, which splits the size by about half, but doesn't fix the Timing issue above.

Something else regarding audio - at first, whenever I enabled "Audio Playback", my video would stutter. After I disabled "Force audio clock when audio playback is enabled", the stuttering stopped, but I had audio lag; is there any way to resolve it? I did manage to temporarily resolve the lag through what I'd call an anomaly; when I switched audio from the default 96k to 44k, the audio was in sync during playback in Vdub, but after capture, the video actually lagged instead. It only played properly when opened in VDub. After selecting 44k again, the lag during audio playback returned, and captured video no longer lagged. Has this bug(?) happened to anyone before?

Anyway, sorry for the long post, but I wanted to be specific about everything in order to get the best answers. Also, if you feel I'd be better off with a different program, please let me know as I'm happy to experiment. Looking forward to some responses, thanks in advance.

[manono]

See if jagabo's recent post on capping with VDub helps you any:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/197551-VHS-to-DVD-conversion-Am-I-expecting-too-muc...=1#post2042997

I'm capturing AVI with "No recompression: YUY2". So, is it the right codec I need to obtain perfect sync?

No.

[hech54]

Buy a DVD recorder.