The VC500 can be used with VirtualDub capture to get lossless AVI, using huffyuv or Lagarith lossless compression during capture - which will give you about 30 to 40GB for a little more than an hour of 720x480 lossless AVI. There's nothing really "wrong" with MPEG media itself (it's good enough for cable TV and Hollywood DVD's).
Don't capture ugly old noisy crappy VHS to lossy encodes such as MPEG. If you really want the archival quality that you say you do, Nelson37 has the right idea.
#HOW TO USE VCS DIAMOND SOFTWARE#
Is there software that a beginner like me could use to capture video using the VC500 hardware but alternative freeware? Any advantages to this? Interested in archival quality / faithful capture. If I am trying to make a good archival copy of the VHS tape do you agree with using the "DVD" setting?ģ. The "DVD" setting seems to be the highest bitrate setting (36Mb for 30 sec), other than the "AVI" setting which took up 1Gb for 30 seconds. I am using "NTSC_M" video format and the "DVD" record format settings.
#HOW TO USE VCS DIAMOND TRIAL#
I am guessing I should set them all to 128 - this looks faithful on my trial capture.Ģ. (I also don't know what the sharpness setting does). Most important, what settings should the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and sharpness be set to? I just want to faithfully capture whatever is on the VHS - I don't want to attempt to improve or correct it. I have some questions, and really appreciate any help you can offer:ġ. I have tested it out using less important tapes, and using the EZGrabber software for the capture, and it seems to be capturing fine. I have just purchased the Diamond VC500 capture device. I have a precious video that I do not want to play more than once if I can avoid it.
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