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s-video vs y/r/w cable
JCMJR [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jul 20, 2019 15:55 Messages: 2 Offline
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I know these are silly questions, but how much better is using an s-video cable vs the yellow/red/white cable for capturing VCR tapes to the PD 17 editing program? Also, how much distortion does one normally get by up grading a 4:3 (vcr tape format) to a 16:9 project? Your thoughts are appreciated!
BarryTheCrab
Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline
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Capturing via s-video reduces/eliminates dot-crawl from RCA connectors.
If quality is important to you, I suggest using VirtualDub version 1.9xx and capture 720x480 lossless AVI. That eliminates compression artifacts.
UTvideo codec, HuffYUV, MagicYUV, Lagareth, all are preferred lossless AVI codecs.
If you have the codecs setup properly you can even render improvements in VirtualDub and remain lossless.
Final edits and delivery can be done in Powerdirector. This way you only suffer compression/generational loss a single time.
4:3 is 4:3, period. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
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JCMJR [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jul 20, 2019 15:55 Messages: 2 Offline
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Thanks,
jcmjr
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