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richard-amirault wrote on 6/25/2010, 8:29 PM
Well, as a general rule .. stay away from anything that uses USB .. but there are exceptions to that rule.

The best would be a camcorder than outputs in firewire and has a "pass thru" function. With such a device you plug the output of the camcorder into your computer. The output of your VHS deck goes to the analog input of the camcorder and, when you play the VHS tape, it converts it to a digital stream that is captured easily.

However I don't think that "pass thru" camcorders are very plentful these days.

Another way to capture ... and this does work fairly well with USB .. is to add a TV tuner to your computer. You can get internal and external tuners .. both will work .. so long as it has an analog input (usually RCA jacks .. to match the RCA output jacks on your VCR)

Understand that by using the TV tuner method you need to capture using the TV tuner software ... Vegas will not recognize it as a capture device. Then import the file into Vegas. And understand that some TV tuner cards encode Mpeg2 in software (ok), and others do it in hardware (better)
Tom Pauncz wrote on 6/25/2010, 9:22 PM
I found that my ADVC100 device did a pretty good job ...
Tom
musicvid10 wrote on 6/25/2010, 9:27 PM
Find someone who has a Panasonic VHS-DVD combo recorder. You won't be disappointed with the results.
UlfLaursen wrote on 6/25/2010, 10:01 PM
I found that my ADVC100 device did a pretty good job ...

I still have my ADVC100 too, and just did a job with several hours from VHS, and it sure did the job.

Sometimes when I don't want to set this up, I just connect the VHS to my DVD recorder and then imports the DVD into Vegas, but if I have many tapes I captur directly form the ADVC 100.

/Ulf
farss wrote on 6/25/2010, 10:14 PM
Either ADVC-300 or use a Digital 8 camcorder / VCR that does passthrough. Both have timebase correction and Dynamic Noise Reduction. Worth the extra expense to do it right.
I think some of the better VHS / DVD recorder combos have this as well.

Bob.
djdjtre wrote on 6/26/2010, 3:03 AM
I was looking around the net and stumbled across the Blackmagic H.264 Pro Recorder. I was Hoping this will do the trick. Thanks everyone for your input.