Don't forget the TBC, you'll desperately need one. If you care about that tape, then rent (or buy used) a good VCR and a good DVD recorder. Image improvers, I do in hardware (for things only the software can do, it's not worth capturing, unless the tapes are unicate). Cutting I do frame accurate (it's possible also on MPEG-2 files). So I don't care about anything (I live in PAL land, so most NTSC issues are moot ), drivers, software, HDD, graphic card - the engineers did it for me. Because I'm a perfectionist.įor some 7 years now I use the hardware way, I capture to a DVD recorder (well, it's a good one) using a studio SVHS feeder (there are also other gear in between). Not dropped frames, or asynch, but color space errors, driver resizing (capture window), frame interpolation (so they don't report a dropped frame but create an artificial one instead), things that most people do not notice. I did very long time ago PC captures and I always have more or less problems. Unless you have a special need for that recording, I would suggest you something else. I can live with the slight video noise if I get the audio/video sync to work.Īny help is appreciated. I guess my VCR is not capable of outputting S-Video correctly. Is the tuner card not good enough? It gets a lot worse using S-Video. I am not talking about interlaced video - it is like a bad TV signal. Still, there is some flickering noise on the picture. I am capturing composite video using a very high quality cable and high quality SCART-converter plug. What can I do to ensure total sync without doing nasty frame rates or audio sample rate? I am mastering for DVD so I want the quality as perfect as possible.Īnd a second question. I cannot be true that I have to correct every capture - It will take a very long time because the out-of-sync is not constant. I would like to know the source of the problem. I am using the Huffyuv codec for video (PAL 25 fps, 720x576) and the audio is PCM 16bit at 48kHz. The big problem is that it will be perfect in the beginning of the video and in the end it off by 200 ms or even more (the video is about 40 min long). No matter what AV Sync settings I use in VirtualVCR, the result is out of sync.

I am capturing old VHS video with a standard VCR plugged into an older Pinnacle TV Tuner Card using composite and audio captured with on board soundcard.

Audio out of sync pinnacle studio 20