Transfer VHS to PC or VHS direct to DVD

braveheart3158 wrote on 8/26/2022, 7:40 AM

For digitizing and storing home movie VHS tapes for future rendering. Lossless as possible. Which is best?

use a stand alone VHS to DVD recorder and then copy Paste the VOB files from DVD to PC?
Direct from VHS with S connection as AVI?
Direct from VHS with S connection as MP4

For VHS tapes I digitized in the past I used method #. I recently came across additional VHS tapes and I am considering #2 or 3.

Can Movie Studio 13 Platinum help in the transfer from VHS to PC? If so, then what format?

I am using Movie Studio 13 Platinum with windows 10 and graphics card. I have no issues with my PC as it is set up for gaming and editing.

Thanks in advance!
Ted

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Dexcon wrote on 8/26/2022, 8:03 AM

use a stand alone VHS to DVD recorder and then copy Paste the VOB files from DVD to PC?

Direct from VHS with S connection as AVI?

Direct from VHS with S connection as MP4

In relation to points 2 and 3, I don't think that there will be a scrap of difference in terms of quality which one is used. Both AVI and MP4 cater for much, much higher resolutions than is available from VHS. But MP4 files are going to be smaller than are AVI files. VHS is the limitation here.

S connection could possibly help to a small degree, but it will be marginal if the original VHS recording was not recorded in S-Video. However, there could be an advantage if the VHS player being used to xfer is an S-Video machine which has a time based corrector (TBC) installed.

Musicvid wrote on 8/26/2022, 8:39 AM

I use method #1.

Your non-IEEE1394 capture device will not capture with the same quality.
Set top VHS->DVD recorders all use hardware noise reduction, which will save you time and quality over a separate render with Neat Video.