Video Tape to Digital

[Popester]

I have another philosophy. Since I repair things for a living. I have never made one technology try to become another. What I mean. I have all the super 8 films I shot still around on 400ft reels. Also have my Betamax and VHS movies that I purchased. Each technology was of its time. If I want to see an old Super 8 film I made, I have a projector that is for that purpose. If I want to watch a Betamax movie, I have operating SL 2000 and SL2500 machines I can watch them on. If they break I repair or get another one off eBay. Currently don’t watch HDTV as my newest TV is 25 years old, it’s a CRT. I could of made Super 8 film into VHS, than I would need to transfer them into DVD, than whatever the next technology came along I would have to transfer them again. I guess my long rant point is that I have never wanted to keep up with the fast changing technology because we can’t. It will continue to change. I’ll tell you one thing. Super 8 sure had better color rendition and resolution than any video camera format available at that time (Betamovie, VHS-C, or umbilical camera and recorded combinations.) Anybody remember Kodakchrome? Best slide film Kodak ever made. And you know what? Kodak brought back Ektachrome film this year. Who would of thought slide film would ever make an entrance again.

[Hawkwind]

No mention of a Laserdisc player?..

[centralradio]

I just use my Panasonic DVD recorder.I have had the computer attachments and that dont work good on old computers..

On my old 20 year old computer i have Hauppauge WinTV which worked great at the time but it limited .

[MIPS]

If you are just trying to capture a raw SD video why not something from the likes of Canopus, Elgato or Blackmagic?
Pinnacle Micro, ATI and Hauppauge are kinda shitty. Mainly consumer products and 480i at 30fps uncompressed is hard to push over USB 2.0, hence why for quite a while the professional end still used firewire until flash recording became popular, or USB 3.

Canopus ADVC's are still on the cheaper end and lack internal TBC but they are considerably better. Supposedly Startech has good products as well but I can't vouch for them.

Edited: Stupid me didn't see the link at the bottom of the post. Yes that Blackmagic pod will work fine but IMHO I like to work with as little compression as possible prior to the final render (to a modern compression standard like h.265, or again none at all if the output is part of a larger project) because once its added it's a lot of manual work to restore the video.

[mr_rye89]

I watched a youtube video where a guy (technology connections?) used an analog video to HDMI scaler plugged into a box that recorded video from HDMI (like what they use to record gameplay from video game consoles). worked great. I might be trying this soon as I have an excellent Monoprice composite/s-video to HDMI scaler already.

I use a JVC SR-VS30 SVHS/MiniDV dual deck to a standalone DVD recorder or Linux PC via FireWire/iLink. The dual deck VCR also passes thru video from the inputs so you can use it to capture Beta/LaserDisc/whatever with a PC. Said Linux PC has a PCI-E Firewire 400/800 card with a Texas Instruments chipset.

[MIPS]

Originally Posted by mr_rye89

I watched a youtube video where a guy (technology connections?) used an analog video to HDMI scaler plugged into a box that recorded video from HDMI (like what they use to record gameplay from video game consoles). worked great. I might be trying this soon as I have an excellent Monoprice composite/s-video to HDMI scaler already.

No.
No no no no and no.

If you speak to anyone remotely professional you never use an upscaler as part of the capture process. Handle the digital upscaling in post-process where the quality of the scaling is not limited by the low power CPU in the scaler box or even can be performed multi-pass.