Best way to archive vhs?
Best way to archive vhs?
My grandparents are downsizing there collections of turds and gold and they want their homemade movies archived. I was thinking of a component capture card with obs. What would be a good capture card or a better way to archive?
UPDATE 1: So, my DVD vhs combo was a total piece of shit and ate my Addams family Vhs tape!!! I found a vhs player that works and looks pretty decent.
I bought a black magic intensity pro capture card (BMDPCB41G1) but I'm struggling to get the driver to recognize the card, I tried win10 but I'm gonna try Ubuntu and an older 4th gen intel motherboard. This is all I have for now, any help would be cool.
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Depends on your budget. If quality is important, you need at least decent VCR. High-end models might be difficult to obtain, especially those made stricte for digitizing (very expensive). Look for something with S-Video output if possible (better than single RCA), and from computer end... maybe Black Magic Intensity Pro 4K card? Comes with Resolve software. Alternatively you also get a cheap RCA-to-USB adapter, and that will work with most capturing software, but the final quality might be... well, cheap.
I do have an Sony VCR DVD combo with s-video. I was look at the black magic cards on eBay and there are some from 2008 from a Mac and I'm wondering if they will work on Linux.
Is the DVD a writer? If you're fortunate enough, that can be the easiest way to dump it down: Pop it on a DVD, and import.
Otherwise, old black magic cards can surprise you under Linux! Though definitely worth looking if anybody on the forums has used the one you're looking at.
You want to work natively: Get an S-video out into an s-video in that handles the resolution correctly, and makes you a nice native-resolution file.
VHS archiving can be a goddamned rabbit hole, it's worth deciding what will be good enough". Or if you want to go down the rabbit hole, look up Timebase Correction.
I'm pretty sure its a Sony SLV-D350p which might be able to dump a vhs to DVD.
I'm think about buying a magic card, but I'm going to do some research before I pull the trigger on one.
Vhs archiving is really a huge rabbit hole with so to archive vhs, but its super fun.