vhs captures complete and deinterlaced- stuck on next step

[DosWasBest]

I've transferred a bunch of 1980s-1990s family home vhs to computer over the past month (and have a lot more to go).

At this point, I was going to take an nvme drive full of what I've done to visit family at Christmas. I'm not familiar with current tv sets....but my son says he just bought a 65" tv.

My longer-term plan has been to learn Davinci, edit the videos I've been capturing...and so on. But rapidly approaching holidays won't leave time.

At any rate....at this moment, I have an nvme full of very large prores, deinterlaced files for each 30minute (and sometimes 60min) videos...which I converted after initial mpeg2 captures from the pretty-good vcr machines I had....then with staxrip's qtgmc and its ffmpeg settings to then create prores into mov container (I'M FAIRLY A NEWBIE!!)

My question....what should I do next (if anything) to sorta kinda get an acceptable playback set of unedited files for playing on my son's 65" tv when I visit? I suppose by popping the ext usb hard drive onto his computer and routing that over to the tv....I guess.

What vlc shows as codec info on each file (as I did the same process each time).......

prores 422 standard apcn
720x480 (I selected 1:1 at conversion...no crop)
Frame rate 59.940060
planar 4:2:2 yuv 10bit le
orientation top left

audio streams (mostly) codec sowt (some transfers ended up aac audio)
stereo 48khz
16bit


Man, the prores files are HUGE....which I guess is the norm

I've been creating these files on a fairly ok intel Win11 Pro computer.

[Alwyn]

Since it's only a temp job for Christmas, batch-convert them all at once into MP4 with Handbrake. They will (should!) play on your son's TV. See my guide here.

To be sure, after you've done them (or one, to test), send an MP4 to him (via Google Drive or similar file-sharing site) for him to test on his TV.

[Sharc]

@DosWasBest: Assuming you have ffmpeg on your PC (your user name supports my assumption):
- unzip the attached file to your Desktop. You should then see an icon 'DosWasBest_.cmd' on your desktop.
- Now select and drag and drop the files you want to process onto that icon. The files will be converted one by one.

[DosWasBest]

Since it's only a temp job for Christmas, batch-convert them all at once into MP4 with Handbrake. They will (should!) play on your son's TV. See my guide here.

To be sure, after you've done them (or one, to test), send an MP4 to him (via Google Drive or similar file-sharing site) for him to test on his TV.

Thanks! I'll experiment with this today.

[DosWasBest]

@DosWasBest: Assuming you have ffmpeg on your PC (your user name supports my assumption):
- unzip the attached file to your Desktop. You should then see an icon 'DosWasBest_.cmd' on your desktop.
- Now select and drag and drop the files you want to process onto that icon. The files will be converted one by one.

Thank you! I just downloaded it and will experiment today along with the other suggestion.