All,
12 years ago I had a friend record my wedding video. He used a big SVHS camcorder and just propped it up on his shoulder..in other words it was shaky and pretty bad.
And to make matters worse..when he gave me the option of recording to SVHS tape or VHS I said VHS cause I could play it back right away. My mistake there.
Anyways..at the time I had very limited knowledge of capturing/video editing and captured to my computer with composite cables..over-edited and encoded with a sub-par mpeg encoder.
I have sinced learned the joys of avisynth and the great HCEnc and want to re-visit my wedding video. I still have the VHS tape and know I can get much better results by playing it through a good SVHS player and capturing via S-Video (are there any newer video options for SVHS)?
Once I get it captured I know what to do from there..I just want to make sure I capture it in the best manner possible. Is there a particular SVHS player I should try to rent/borrow/etc. and any other hardware that a mere mortal could find that might help me in this process?
My main complaint with the dvd I created is the video is just very blurry. I know I only used a VHS tape but I also know that the SVHS camcorder made some pretty sharp images (for the time period of course) even on VHS and I want to capture that as much as possible.
So I'm mainly looking for help in one of the areas where I failed last time..before I ended up with a digital file on my computer. I plan on capturing to lossless .avi, perhaps doing some light editing, then encoding with HCEnc and making a new DVD.
12 years ago I had a friend record my wedding video. He used a big SVHS camcorder and just propped it up on his shoulder..in other words it was shaky and pretty bad.
And to make matters worse..when he gave me the option of recording to SVHS tape or VHS I said VHS cause I could play it back right away. My mistake there.
Anyways..at the time I had very limited knowledge of capturing/video editing and captured to my computer with composite cables..over-edited and encoded with a sub-par mpeg encoder.
I have sinced learned the joys of avisynth and the great HCEnc and want to re-visit my wedding video. I still have the VHS tape and know I can get much better results by playing it through a good SVHS player and capturing via S-Video (are there any newer video options for SVHS)?
Once I get it captured I know what to do from there..I just want to make sure I capture it in the best manner possible. Is there a particular SVHS player I should try to rent/borrow/etc. and any other hardware that a mere mortal could find that might help me in this process?
My main complaint with the dvd I created is the video is just very blurry. I know I only used a VHS tape but I also know that the SVHS camcorder made some pretty sharp images (for the time period of course) even on VHS and I want to capture that as much as possible.
So I'm mainly looking for help in one of the areas where I failed last time..before I ended up with a digital file on my computer. I plan on capturing to lossless .avi, perhaps doing some light editing, then encoding with HCEnc and making a new DVD.