Am I doing it right? Video8 and VHS Capture

[mammo1789]

some noise reduction while capturing you can use in virtual dub msu noise reduction on the fly its fast enough and good uses gpu so no slow down, it will help a lot in the encoding process and let you compress more also msu has best compression safe space of many of the noise reductions and its free.

[themaster1]

I thought x264 was not recommended for INTERLACED sources... was I wrong?

Yes you are wrong, you can encode interlaced content using mbaff, i use staxrip for that but there are others encoders.

The end result is better than with any mpeg2 encoder indeed

[2Bdecided]

Unless I've missed it, nowhere in this thread have you said how you intend to view these videos on your TV. Using a PC? Burning to DVD? BluRay? via a media box (e.g. WDlive)? etc?

Until you decide on this, all the advice about MPEG-2 vs MPEG-4, interlaced vs deinterlaced etc is useless.

Many people keep a raw transfer (e.g. lossless or DV-AVI) and a filtered version with some noise removed, colours fixed, etc (e.g. lossless and/or MPEG-2 DVD interlaced or x264 deinterlaced).


You can't judge the quality of encoding from screen shots. Artefacts look different in motion. You need to watch the footage on a TV.


Another consideration is that most people hope to edit their footage. Most people won't get around to this, but many people will at least want to create a highlights sequence of the very best bits. For this, you need to have the (filtered?) footage in a format that can be edited easily and re-compressed without significant quality loss.

Cheers,
David.