PLEASE PLEASE need help. I really need to get the best quality possible. I record alot of video for our church and they are asking if I can get a good quality transfer from vhsc to dvd and I would also like to do this for my home movies. Need to know the best way of doing this please. Here is what I have, 1 winfast tv 2000 capture card 1 Legacy video cature device Ulead video studio 8 Cyberlink Power Director Power Producer express internal dvd burner windows xp lots of hard drive space DVD Shrink dvd x copy express Now what I need to know is how can I convert the vhsc from my camcorder to high quality dvd using this software or any other, just let me know what I need to do. I have used cyberlink and ulead and I was not really satisfied with the quality, I even tried the magic clean on cyberlink, still not good. Please someone help, I would really appreciate it and so wouldn't every one else. Thank you for your time.
You'll need a much better capture device, if you're using it for digitizing the video. If you're using a digital cam, then stick with it. You'll need good encoder software, unless you want to go with hardware mpeg-2 encoding. You'll need some advanced DVD authoring software. What sort of budget restraints do you have? What is the source type of the video (VHS, Hi-8, Digital-8, or...)?
using vhs-c and connecting to the comp analog, no dig camera. what device would I need reasonable, I mean I dont want to spend hundreds or thousands. The software doesnt matter, I have connections to get software thank you for your time
would i be better getting a digital camcorder and if so which would you reccomend everything i spend comes out of my pocket.
Start with the Canopus ADVC-110 and the free WinDV. You'll need a good mpeg-2 encoder (mainconcept, et al), and aforementioned DVD authoring software. If that's out of budget, you can get a Hauppauge PVR-150 for less than $100, with totally respectable quality, and only need authoring software, as the card does the digitizing directly to mpeg-2 (DVD spec).
I can get the hauppage for about 65.00 is there any better capture card out there? The other item, im not willing to spend 300.00 on for just a converter, I'ld rather spend it on the capture card so if i ever wanted to record any tv
Yes, there are other capture cards, but I doubt you'll find much better quality, unless you want to try a Theatre Pro 550 chipset card. YMMV. You have a choice of aspects and bitrates to capture with, so the quality is dependent on how many minutes you want on each final disk. If you desire, you can have a GOP of 1, at 15000kbps, and have HUGE files, but you cannot improve the basic quality if VHS-C, so it's a waste. With the right settings, you'll easily equal the output quality of the VHS, with no need to spend hundreds on equipment. If you have a digital signal from your supplier, you could try something like the Divco Fusion 5 card. All the Hauppauge cards also have tuners for TV, as well as other inputs to use with a VCR or whatever. The PVR-500 is a dual tuner card (with FM radio) if you want to record two shows at once, or capture a VHS tape and timeshift TV at the same time. Correction from my post above: The Hauppauge cards (retail versions, not MCE versions) all come with editing and authoring software.
ok for the capture card, now software , this is what i currently have, virtualdub tmpgenc virtualvcr ifoedit cyberlink power director ulead video studio 8 winfast dvd wizard pro nero which is the best to use and what other should i get for the best quality possible. and is it going to be better than using cyberlink power poducer? Thank you for your time and patience.
Sofware depends on hardware. What card, and what type of file are you capturing? If it's mpeg-2, then Ulead will work. If it's avi, then use tmpgenc to encode, and Ulead to author. Burn in Nero using the DVD Video template. Quality is subjective. Again, depending on the capture type. I cap everything to mpeg-2 (hardware cap cards), then Demux in PVAStrumento, edit out commercials in Cuttermaran, and import elementary streams into DVDLab Pro. Burn in Nero.
I don't know what format the Winfast captures to. Assuming it's avi: Open it in Ulead, create the dvd on the hard drive, burn in Nero. There are better ways. Look in the Encoding forum (avi to mpg/dvd). Use whatever capture software YOU like the best, that works with your card. Virtualdub is as good as any. Some prefer DScaler. If you want better quality, capture using Huffyuv or Mjpeg codecs. Encode with Canopus Procoder, Mainconcept, et al. Author in Ulead.
You download and install it. It should then become a compression option in your capture software. If it doesn't, use different software. MJPEG is also very good quality, but with a smaller filesize.
"If it's AVI, then use TMPGEnc to encode, and Ulead to author. Burn in Nero using the DVD Video template. " Rebootjim - I do right this, but on playing the movie on my DVD I see blurring effect (like the pixels are running after the image). I copied the files from my JVC miniDV with several SW, including ulead, studio9 etc, and I got HUGE avi files (20 minutes=2GB). But burning down with "ulead dvdfactory" I got this blurring. Do you have any idea? thxs
OK I downloded it and it just shows files, I do not have an install on the files, how do you install it???????????????? I tried copying files in virtualdub files, didnt work. Please help me with this. with explanation please. thank you.
Unzip what you downloaded. There should be a file that ends with .inf Right click on that, select install. Restart the computer, and it should be available in vdub. Whenever you encode a video to mpeg-2, from avi (which is what Ulead is doing, and is necessary for DVD), you can lose some quality. The way to maintain better quality, is to use a better encoder.
Canopus Procoder (Express), Mainconcept mpeg encoder, Cinemacraft Encoder (Basic), or Tmpgenc (Plus). (in that order)
