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I would carefully store the tapes while these technologies are developed. VHS recordings can also be significantly improved with color correcting and recovery techniques that use the luma signal to increase the resolution of the chroma. When this happens you will need to recapture the tapes, because the motion-compensated inter-frame encoding methods used to store video on a DVD eliminate much of the information that could theoretically be used to obtain super-resolution. Someday, it may be possible to obtain super-resolution upscaling from analog tapes.

To connect the Canopus ADVC to a new iMac. I think all you need is a 9-pin Firewire 800 to 6-pin Firewire 400 cable such as (could I substitute, using a cable with the proper connector or via a FireWire hub?) I could still use my ancient PC, I suppose, but was hoping I could use my iMac, as it is much faster. Thank you SO much!Īnd my iMac has the 9-conductor Firewire port but lacking the 6-conductor port that came with my Canopus ADVC. I am so appreciative of the time and interest you three have shown in response to my question. The quality was similar to what I was able to produce beyond that issue. Interestingly, I did have Lord Smurf take care of a couple of tapes for me that had extreme 'flagging' that I couldn't correct. If I do go back and redo these, I will have an external drive dedicated to JUST these files. I didn't foresee going back and improve on the quality at a later time. I have long since forgotten what files Premier encoded the VOB files to - I was just happy to be able to stick the DVD's in the vcr and they worked. When I used only the vcr's TBC, that's when I got the best results - strangely, and disappointingly, I didn't get as good results turning off the vcr's TBC and having the Datavideo running.

But it seems when I ran them together I have massive shaking. I have a JVC HR-S8900U VCR, which has a TBC built in as well as a separate Datavideo TBC in the loop.

And my iMac has the 9-conductor Firewire port but lacking the 6-conductor port that came with my Canopus ADVC. edDV, stupidly, I did not save my DV-AVI files - just still too inexperienced at the time. I'm very rusty - having to brush up on my video terminology. Thank you all, Vidd, jman & edDV, for your replies - VERY helpful. You may want to have one tape transferred at a premium dub house so you can compare to your current result for the same tape. That would probably smooth out the 'shaky' portions but also stabilize the pixel alignment for better filtering and/or encoding.īy DVD do you mean you stored your DV-AVI capture files to DVDR data discs (20 min per layer)? Or, did you encode the DV files to MPeg2? If so, at what bit rate? You should also be backing these up to hard disc media.

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The main improvement would come from a recapture with a full frame TBC in the path ahead of the ADVC in the capture chain. Deinterlace is highly destructve especially with non-timebase corrected VHS.

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The Mac works fine with a Canopus ADVC if your iMAC has a Firewire port.Ī key issue is keep the archive interlace.

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This would be particularly an issue with a Mac OSX that isn't easily huffyuv or Lagarith compatible. If you saved your DV-AVI files from the Canopus ADVC capture, you won't get much improvement capturing to a different format.