Hi all,
A friend of mine has passed on about 100 VHS video cassettes from the late 1980's through to the late 1990's. The cassettes have degraded quite badly (kept in the damp it looks like) but many are salvageable. At the moment I'm going through them and sorting out which are possible to recover. The quality is pretty bad but they may be of historical interest as many are amateur tapes from the UK that were sent in to various underground publishers and circulated under the counter.
At the moment my workflow is to sample the output from the VHS recorder using a DV camcorder as pass-through to the firewire input on a laptop The output from this is saved as raw DV data. This generates about a 30 GB file for a three hour tape.
I then import into Kdenlive (I run Kubuntu) and trim, and do any slight adjustments. The question is then what to output to? I'd want a filesize of about 1 GB or less per film for upload. Anyone have any suggested rendering settings for DV capture of VHS material?
A friend of mine has passed on about 100 VHS video cassettes from the late 1980's through to the late 1990's. The cassettes have degraded quite badly (kept in the damp it looks like) but many are salvageable. At the moment I'm going through them and sorting out which are possible to recover. The quality is pretty bad but they may be of historical interest as many are amateur tapes from the UK that were sent in to various underground publishers and circulated under the counter.
At the moment my workflow is to sample the output from the VHS recorder using a DV camcorder as pass-through to the firewire input on a laptop The output from this is saved as raw DV data. This generates about a 30 GB file for a three hour tape.
I then import into Kdenlive (I run Kubuntu) and trim, and do any slight adjustments. The question is then what to output to? I'd want a filesize of about 1 GB or less per film for upload. Anyone have any suggested rendering settings for DV capture of VHS material?
