Yesterday I tried capturing a 4 hour VHS to go to DVD. Most of it was as good as can be expected but one of the programs on it was a disaster, line tearing on every bright scene plus the usaul VHS noise, no way the mpeg encoder wasn;t going to make things much worse.
Tlking about it today with a mate who has a long history of analogue video he suggested the problem is the RF level on the tape is too high and to try a different VCR that might cope with it better. This I did and sure enough much better pictures. But thinking it all through again I thought maybe the issue is with the ADVC 300, so I went straight from the original VCR to the monitor and no line tearing.
So OK, I think, try using the DSR-11 as an A->D, well no line tearing but very little chroma survives and it's quite flaky. Oh and the audio falls to bits big time. So drag out the venerable D8 camera and voila, best pictures of the lot!

I'm suspecting that the 300 which only has a LTBC was making matters much worse, the DSR-11 which has no TBC just wasn't going to cope at all and the D8 which must have a full frame TBC does the best job of the lot.

Guess I should think about buying a full on broadcast TBC but I don't see them around much these days.

Bob.