vhs resolution capture

[s_konstanty]

I have an old vhs camcorder made by panasonic. I am wanting to capture my vhs tapes to my pc and burn them to a disk that I can watch in my DVD player.

1. I bought Pinnacle Linx USB capture card and Pinncale studio 8.
2. I captured image at the best possible analog resolution without any frame drops. This resolution was 320x240.
3. Next I converted movie to MPEG 1 for quality and compression size.
4. I burn the movie as a VCD and play it in my DVD player.
5. It works!!
6. It looks like crap.
7. I know, garbage in, garbage out.
8. What can I do to see this movie on my DVD player as clear as I would through my VCR?

Please help, I plan to buy a mini-dv, but that doesn't help me with the 10 tapes I already have.

Thanks
Steve

[twodogs]

Check this out, read through a bit for the juicy bits.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=127563

Also, try searching "VHS" in forums for other posts. Most info can be found via a search.

[fmctm1sw]

I have an old vhs camcorder made by panasonic. I am wanting to capture my vhs tapes to my pc and burn them to a disk that I can watch in my DVD player.
6. It looks like crap.
7. I know, garbage in, garbage out.

Well, not really. You CAN make a watchable VCD conversion of your VHS tapes but you are going to have to capture at something above 320x240 in my humble opinion.....

[s_konstanty]

Thanks,

I'm totally new to this so bear with me. I have read a number of posts related to VHS, but am still not "getting it".

I capture the analog vhs tape at 320x240(or whatever the best quality capture is in studio 8, the frame rate is 29.9 fps, and the bit rate is fixed...something like 4Mbs)

I convert that to mpeg1 and burn it as a vcd. I can view it in my dvd, but it looks very lossy or as I call it, CRAP on the screen.

What I NEED to know. Is there other software out there that is going to allow me to capture at higher bit rates and resolutions so that I can burn it as a VCD, SVCD, or DVD and watch it in my DVD player having the ORIGINAL quality that I get from watching through my VHS. AND what setting would I use. I didn't find any of this information in the FAQ for newbies.

Somebody please help me!!!

[fmctm1sw]

You must capture better than 320x240. USB cap devices get slammed pretty regularly here (the 1.0 ones anyway). You may want to try a cheap tv tuner card (like mine). I capture at 352x480 when I make VCDs and while they aren't "DVD" quality, the are very watchable.