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The screenshot from optodata show that the capture is from webcam rather than from the analog tv signal. This is from the driver installed by windows 10. This reminds me of a post a few years ago where the OP purchased such a device and it came with PD9 which will not capture under win 10 he claims. He solved the problem by getting the well-known free driver from nch software. It shows up as capture from webcam as progressive video. The same driver causes my win 7 pc to crash hard, so I had to remove it as I never need it. Other users have also reported success with the same driver and capture software.
My supplied vc500 driver with PD allows interlaced, progressive, mpeg-2, mp4, or avi with no compression, and with different resolutions recordings. I stay with mpeg-2 interlaced as svrt works in the final production. I am sure that Barry has his reasons for using a different avi.
Optodata – Your capture is very good but I see a major problem. That is ringing or artificial sharpening in the final stage in the vcr output meant for analog tv. The Alvin sub has this halo around it caused by this artificial sharpening. This is typical of most consumer grade devices. High end vcr and Hi8 camcorders have an edit switch to avoid this problem. You won’t see the halo around objects. In this digital age any sharpening should be done post production and not in the vcr. The capture device used here is as good as any other ones sold at any price. This is my 2 cents.
The VC-500 is a good capture card. That is what I use, the only glaring issues being it captures a little dark, which I adjust in the proc amp, and in a related issue, the proc amp only has brightness and contrast sliders working in Windows 10, the other sliders are not available.
My reason for using "lossless" AVI is file size. You simply cannot beat AVI for capture, it's often as crisp and clear as on the tape, but the file sizes are huuuuge, so I use lossless compression AVI, HuffYUV being favored. Yes, it's compressed AVI, but lossless, much smaller, so I can capture lossless, and do fixes lossless, and I don't do a lossy compression till final delivery, DVD, streaming, etc. MPEG compression is simply horrible, doing it twice is horribler.
As far as 640 vs 720 capture, I am going by the recommendations of the best in the world, 640 is acceptable, 720 is better.
Much of what I do is beyond my knowledge, I parrot what others are doing, with very good results.
That being said, it all starts with a quality VCR. Mine is a JVC-S7800U, built in line TBC, and noise filters. I couple that with a Datavideo TBC-1000 for frame sync, and if needed a Panasonic ES-10 or ES-15, with remote for menu selections. The ES series is HIGHLY recommended, it is a poor mans TBC, and if you have fluttery straight lines, or that annoying bend of image at the top of your capture, you need to add an ES to your workflow. You use it as a pass-thru, NOT to record. A true TBC like my Datavideo will run you $6-800 easy now, very rare.
As for de-interlacing, nothing beats QTGMC, period. I even bob to 60P and raise the bitrate a little. I have never been pleased with creating progressive files from my AVI within PD, just not up-to-par. Cyberlink needs to employ better algorithms.
As for Alvin, I see the ringing, sometimes it's baked into the tape by a lousy dub, sometimes unfixable, but Avidemux and Hybrid, and VirtualDub all have suprememly powerful filters to improve video, all free.
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