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Hybrid will output to several codecs, containers.
As for lossless AVI, you get HuffYUV or UTVideo from my experience, so you can use your lossless files and process/filter lossless. Maybe you need to install the other codecs before they appear, I always had them installed so not sure. Selur has a forum and he is very responsive. But I always use PD for cuts and edits and export.
Get this...if you can get your PD14 to install as 32 bit, and install ffdshow, you'll get a whole new AVI interface! Mine crashed a bit so I stopped experimenting, but if yours worked you can capture lossless!
Hybrid ended up not working for me, and surprisingly, I found using Avisynth easier to use (using the preset QTGMC) settings. Deinterlacing with QTGMC produces noticeably better results than Virtualdub Smart Deinterlacer by Donald Graft.
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Thank you for the information. It does seem to be time related. Users have had success with the older 32 bit versions of PD. PD12 is the last version that works with dv-avi and smart rendering as reported by users. You may already have the solution. The manufacturer included PD10DE. I believe that it captures properly for your needs. Install the 32 bit version. It has more features. Try it and let us know if this fix your capture problem.
I actually went a different route, and am glad I did. Capturing in AmarecTV with the Lagarith codec, then using Avisynth with a QTGMC codec, and only using powerdirector to encode to mpeg2 and maybe use one tool here or there. I will have to say that the AVI capture codec in powerdirector is lacking.
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The 720x480 YUV is as close to the original tape as possible, as I am led to believe through years of reading and capturing thousands of tapes.
YES! PowerDirector is much easier, no doubt, especially the down and dirty MPEG2 or god forbid crappy on the fly Deinterlace MP4!
So, for Deinterlace...here we go again, download free Hybrid by Selur. It is the Swiss Army knife of video restoration.
Hybrid has built in QTGMC, the best Deinterlacer hands down. I use it to bob my VHS to 60p, and I bring that lossless AVI 60p into PD for masking and titles and whatever. Hybrid can do 1,000 other things, too. It's all Vaporsynth and Avisynth, but it's all Greek to me, I just use it for a dozen or so specific things.
Interesting, Hybrid looks good. Almost got it to work, is there a trick to get it to output to a lossless avi? it seems under base video processing to only want to process to lossy mp4 options.
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Please describe "mass conversions ".
Welcome to the rabbit hole that is VHS captures.
If you capture AVI in PD your files will be colossal.
For capture:
Download free VirtualDub 1.9.11.
Download free AmarecTV 3.1
Dowload free Huffyuv 2.1.1 with CCESP patch 0.2.5
Download free Lagareth codec
Now you will have 2 possible programs and 2 quality lossless AVI codecs.
Capture 720x480 top field first 60i in a 4:2:2 YUV color space.
You should be using a good condition Svideo VCR, and a proper capture dongle, not junk from China. Try Hauppauge Live 2 or the Diamond VC-500, both decent if not super cards.
Without benefit of a time base corrector (unless you have one), you should also get a good condition Panasonic ES-10 or ES-15 DVD recorder. Used only as a pass-thru, when needed, to stabilize a poor performance tape.
Note: PowerDirector has an old bug of not capturing more than 1 hour or so and then just stopping with a warning that you have insufficient disk space. No attempt to fix it.
In the end, your captures will play in PD for editing, but Cyberlink has shown zero interest in adding functional lossless AVI codecs.
Any questions?
Lol, by mass, i mean converting about 50-70 tapes. So it's rough when I do a bunch and then find a better way  I luckily have terabytes upon terabytes of storage space. Most will be played from my NAS to the family room TV.
Honestly, up until I upgraded to from PD14 to 365 and it started giving me the capture size errors, everyone thought the final product looked really good, so anything better would just be a bounus i guess.
I actually follow most all of what you said as I was already heading down that rabbit hole. My other program is AmercTV, capturing with the Lagareth codec. I probably have to learn more to understand why you suggest capturing to AVI 720x480 YUV instead of 640x480 RGB
Then I was using Vdub to run filters to deinterlace it. currently using VD Smart IQ Smoother-->VD SmartDeinterlace (blend mode)-->VD Sharpen (moderate)-->VD Unsharp Mask (light)
Then bringing it into powerdirector to clean up any lighting issues and convert to Mpeg2 progressive without smoothing or noise removal at 20,000 k bps
Is good to understand that PD is probably not the ultimate best for capture, however, it was far easier!
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Doing mass conversions of home VHS tapes. Does anyone know specifics on what codec PD365 (and power director in general) uses for analog capture of interlaced video to AVI and how it handles this?
The created AVI is definitely deinterlaced, likely using some sort of blend algorithm which is just ok'ish. Obviously, I dont see any sort of options for deinterlacing in PD. I'm tinkering around with capturing in another program to an interlaced video, and perhaps deinterlacing with some specific filters, and just using PD for video editing and final compression to mpeg2. has anyone tried out a few different processes and give suggestions?
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If you can capture 40-60GB of avi files, let us know how many hours of recording is that and the bitrate. In the other post Barry claims only 4GB can be captured in the mp4 format which is about an hour. Looking for a correlation between formats, time, and bitrate.
If none is found here then I would suggest that you contact Cyberlink support with the information so that they are aware of a possible bug and the need to fix it. If it is a bug , not reporting it and expecting a user here to fix it is near hopeless. Engineers are paid to fix things but only if it is reported. 4 years later and no user bothered to fix it for free in the other post.
Looking at the past failed captures it was like 52 min (57GB), 40 min (43GB), 23 min (25GB). I believe it is the capture codec that is crashing (seems like it's a blackmagic avi codec).
Yes, I submitted a ticket and will post back if they solve it.
As the alternate, I've ditched powerdirector for capture and am using AmerecTV with a Lagarith avi codec, and then just using powerdirector to do any editing and compress to an interlaced video. Since this captures as interlaced (instead of blend deinterlacing that Powerdirector seems to force) the video quality ends up being better.
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What are you capturing, what is your workflow? What codec/container?
You May wish to move this conversation to the 365 forum room, but I'm still interested in hearing your feedback.
I posted in the 365 room as well but thought you might be interested that I've encountered this issue on both PD14 and now PD365
Im capturing VHS tapes via a USB dongle DVDezMaker7 to AVI 640x480, and then processing them afterward to Mpeg2. Very stable desktop machine, 24GBram, Ryzen5 5800
On PD14 it was complaining when I was capturing to a USB HDD, so I could only capture to my C: drive (SATA HDD) - i successfully captured about 30 VHS tapes over 100 GB each with that setup.
Then I upgraded my C: drive SATA HDD to a SATA SSD when I started using PD365 and now I get the error on both the USB HDD and C: drive SATA SSD.
I've double checked the power settings its throwing the error well before its set to "turn off the hard drive" in Windows10-64bit
the SATA SSD is set up as NTFS file system, so i'm at a loss which might be triggering this error but looking through threads it seems to have happened to many others without any resolution posted.
I have a NVM drive on order, so that is my next hope.
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Did you ever find the fix to this? I'm having a similar problem in 365, just for larger files, for me, the 40GB-60GB mark
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I have a problem where when capturing to AVI with a USB dongle (EZmaker7), powerdirector cuts off the capture around the 40GB-60GB mark (never the same, just approximate) and complains there's not enough disk space; even though there's like 600 GB of free disk space.
What is interesting is that this error first occured on my external HDD, but was ok when capturing to my C: HDD. However, the problem started also happening on C: when I upgraded it to a SSD. Moreover, it has occured in both Powerdirector 14 and 365.
I'm running Windows 10 with 24 GB RAM, 6 core AMD CPU and standlone GPU. Any ideas?
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