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<blockquote data-quote="haggard" data-source="post: 130912" data-attributes="member: 183237"><p>T_G, I'm about to start this winters trancription of VHSs to DVD again. I did a shitload last winter. My missus is a TV director and I'd like to free up the spare room that holds all the tapes of her shows. She has many 100s.</p><p></p><p>I do it on PC or Mac, mainly Mac.</p><p>VHS -> Hollywood dazzle digitiser -> hdd -> Adobe Premiere or FCP -> mpeg -> author -> burn.</p><p>Best mpegger I know is Bitvice on Mac and it has a nice noise reducer for tape output. TMPGEnc is also pretty good. Then Ulead MF to author.</p><p></p><p>The dazzle was about £200 when I got it 3-4 yrs ago but prices have plunged. You should get a decent one for about 100. Watch out it doesnt produce files with an in-house codec (Pinnacle?) Dazzle gives straight .dv (.avi) which is like a DVC stream.</p><p></p><p>If I give one other tip, digitising tape always gives chash at the top and bottom and you really need to mask this off, to save bandwidth and to avoid irritation.</p><p></p><p>The time killer is the step .dv/.avi to mpeg and it can be over 10x play time (a day for a 2 hour tape). So I carry files on a portable little 30 GB hd (taken out of a G4 laptop upgraded to 100) and bung them into a G5 in my office where it goes 2 -3x faster than G4 laptop. You need speed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="haggard, post: 130912, member: 183237"] T_G, I'm about to start this winters trancription of VHSs to DVD again. I did a shitload last winter. My missus is a TV director and I'd like to free up the spare room that holds all the tapes of her shows. She has many 100s. I do it on PC or Mac, mainly Mac. VHS -> Hollywood dazzle digitiser -> hdd -> Adobe Premiere or FCP -> mpeg -> author -> burn. Best mpegger I know is Bitvice on Mac and it has a nice noise reducer for tape output. TMPGEnc is also pretty good. Then Ulead MF to author. The dazzle was about £200 when I got it 3-4 yrs ago but prices have plunged. You should get a decent one for about 100. Watch out it doesnt produce files with an in-house codec (Pinnacle?) Dazzle gives straight .dv (.avi) which is like a DVC stream. If I give one other tip, digitising tape always gives chash at the top and bottom and you really need to mask this off, to save bandwidth and to avoid irritation. The time killer is the step .dv/.avi to mpeg and it can be over 10x play time (a day for a 2 hour tape). So I carry files on a portable little 30 GB hd (taken out of a G4 laptop upgraded to 100) and bung them into a G5 in my office where it goes 2 -3x faster than G4 laptop. You need speed. [/QUOTE]
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