An ad popped up on the Artist formerly known as twitter.
Looked refreshingly simple , 3 rca cables into your vcr, an hdmi into your computer and some sort of black box in between.
Anyone used these more contemporary devices?
Its lateish here so I may or may mot respond til morning. .
Cheers.
When you say a ‘vcr’ do you mean a VHS device?
For digitising VHS cassette material I use a gizmo called an “August VGB350” that connects via 3 RCAs to a VHS player and outputs a video signal via a USB – plug it into the PC, fire up a video editor app and point that at the gizmo – save the stream as an mpg.
More expensive options from the same Chinese brand do have a black box element that sports an HDMI output, but that’s overkill for material recorded on VHS, which is a long way from being HD. I suspect the HDMI output signal is at the exact same definition as the original.
The USB feed on my device delivers the original picture resolution to my PC for saving as an mpg.
Yep that is what I meant Foxy. Was it expensive?
About £40 on the dodgers I think.
Yep, here’s the purchase:
I love the fact that imgur spots the term “connector gender” and “male-to-male” and warns that the image may contain what it considers you might see as smut.
The gizmo shipped with a CD containing a video capture app that works fine on my Windows box. Not sure how/if the same would apply to the Mac environment – I don’t recall seeing Mac options on the disc, but they might have been there – take a look at the latest version on Amazon to see if that option is mentioned.
Foxy is quite correct, Junes.
Even if you were to capture the SD video to pre-broadcast digital video standard, the data rate would be 270Mb/s, which is just over half the data rate of USB 2.0
And that’s 10-bit Y’UV, at bandwidths of 13.5MHz Y’, 6.75MHz U & 6.75MHz V.
Your PAL tapes will be roughly 5MHz Y’, 1.3MHz U & 1.3MHz V and 8-bit, making a bit rate of 60.8MHz, or one eighth of the USB 2.0 data rates.
Sorry, I used to work in broadcast video equipment design.
HDMI would be totally OTT.
Yep I’ve got one too. They work OK. The issue is sorting out frame speed bollocks as the audio and video slowly drift out of sync and I’ve never been able to get it to play nicely. Works well enough though.
HDMI into your computer? I’m not sure many computers have HDMI inputs. The HMDI socket on a PC (or laptop) is usually ‘just’ an output. Are you trying to record the PC output or the VCR output?
Clearly half asleep when I wrote that. I meant USB.