Capture VHS - can't change audio settings

Prizm

Newbie Joined: Oct 01, 2007 09:07 Messages: 36 Offline

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Apr 21, 2015 07:13

I'm capturing some old VHS tapes, but the capture options seem very limited.

If I select MPEG2, I can't change the audio setting from stereo to mono. So when I record my mono tapes, the audio only comes out of one speaker because it's expecting a stereo signal. If I record it like this, then I have to go back in, re-encode the audio to a mono format, and then remux it. Also I can't change the MPEG2 video quality either.

I tried to capture via uncompressed AVI instead, but it won't let me select the PAL resolution of 720x576, it's either 640x480 or 1024x576. I tried a capture at 640x480 and I wasn't impressed with the quality so I'd prefer 720x576. Also, even though I selected 16-bit mono sound, it still saved as stereo and outputted the audio out of one channel only.

Any ideas?

thanks

Prizm

Newbie Joined: Oct 01, 2007 09:07 Messages: 36 Offline

Apr 21, 2015 08:37

Nevermind, it looks like I found it - I have to create a new profile. I thought I could edit the existing ones.

PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Apr 21, 2015 10:10

I've never used PD. caprura for video.

But I understand that the audio captured in only one channel, you can copy this channel to another channel to have the 2 L and R channels with audio.

Editing in the timeline use WaveEditor to do so.

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tomasc

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Apr 21, 2015 12:55

You can use a Y-splitter cable to achieve the same thing from a recorder output to capture stereo audio input jacks.