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Post by Mark Tinkler on Nov 13, 2018 17:56:53 GMT
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Post by Peter Stirling on Nov 13, 2018 23:45:46 GMT
It seems that is is possible, well for those who know what they're doing anyway, to open the machine and put in a composite video-out at the back. So then it doesn't have to go over the antenna cable. Some models may already have these ports, but I guess it will be a so-called "DIN" socket. Yes I have done one with an N1700 as access inside is easy, but not sure about the N1500 which is quite ancient inside compared to the N1700. The BBC and commerce apparently used the !N1501! which is a rare as hen's teeth now and had composite video/in/out IIRC
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Post by garygraham on Nov 14, 2018 2:53:11 GMT
I've used two USB devices over the last ten years. Firstly one made by Trust and more recently one by KWorld. Also I use Panasonic DVD recorders. There probably are some poor quality USB devices around. However In my experience the only thing that affects the quality is the method used. The devices themselves have been excellent. I think the mistake some people make is capturing at low resolution (say 320x240 instead of 720x576), at the wrong frame rate (it should be 25fps interlaced) and using too much compression. Sometimes software that comes with some of these USB devices tends to be rubbish and designed for low res captures of TV. They will work with much better free capture software such as VirtualDub. You can capture using various different compression codecs such as MJPEG, HuffyUV which is effectively uncompressed, or just plain old uncompressed. If you want to capture MPEG2 then PowerProducer works or Ulead VideoStudio. Some USB devices include these which is a saving. In my experience when using these the quality is very similar to that of the Panasonic DVD recorders though much less convenient. Like the Panasonic DVD recorders the USB devices seem to have some form of basic timebase corrector in them. Here is a testcard from a 25 year old VHS tape captured using the KWorld device.
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Post by martinjwills on Nov 14, 2018 9:48:15 GMT
There is also a good transfer program called multiAVCHD although it hasnt been updated in 9 years, converts/or copies most video streams to a dongle/usb flash drive that will load into dvd/blu-ray recorders as AVCHD, it also has pal-speed up for NTSC 23.97 fps to 25fps. This program has presets for most recorders and works well with Panasonic Blu-ray recorders, the file can then be converted into H264 with the built in converters on the panasonic at 1to1 rather than the slower rates in PC software.
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Post by Charles Daniels on Nov 14, 2018 10:10:51 GMT
Wow! Thanks to everyone for all the helpful comments and advice. I will look through it all and see what will work best for me. I have quite a few items, including still several hundred tapes to look through yet. So will be good to break this down to a science. Cheers again!
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Post by RWels on Nov 14, 2018 18:36:33 GMT
I've used two USB devices over the last ten years. Firstly one made by Trust and more recently one by KWorld. Also I use Panasonic DVD recorders. There probably are some poor quality USB devices around. However In my experience the only thing that affects the quality is the method used. The devices themselves have been excellent. I think the mistake some people make is capturing at low resolution (say 320x240 instead of 720x576), at the wrong frame rate (it should be 25fps interlaced) and using too much compression. Sometimes software that comes with some of these USB devices tends to be rubbish and designed for low res captures of TV. They will work with much better free capture software such as VirtualDub. You can capture using various different compression codecs such as MJPEG, HuffyUV which is effectively uncompressed, or just plain old uncompressed. If you want to capture MPEG2 then PowerProducer works or Ulead VideoStudio. Some USB devices include these which is a saving. In my experience when using these the quality is very similar to that of the Panasonic DVD recorders though much less convenient. Like the Panasonic DVD recorders the USB devices seem to have some form of basic timebase corrector in them. Here is a testcard from a 25 year old VHS tape captured using the KWorld device. View AttachmentFrom what I understand, you wouldn't want the very first N1500 anyway, because the earliest model had some problems.
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Post by robertreinstein on Nov 17, 2018 1:16:51 GMT
I use a Canopus ADVC-300 and capture raw AVI. It uses a lot of disk space, but it's not compressed, and can be used to make blu-rays. That device isn't made anymore, but you can sometimes find them on eBay. I highly recommend it. it also handles both PAL and NTSC. A time base corrector is built in.
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