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Question
I have a bunch of vhs tapes that I need to put on dvd’s. I want to get nice quality. Any ideas are appreciated.
Best Answer
Easiest is probably use a standalone DVD recorder to digitize them, and then convert and edit from there to whatever your final output is going to be.
Best is probably old-school method of inputting through something like VirtualDub and saving the file with HuffyUV codec or similar. It won’t lose any quality this way, but the file will be huge. You then edit and convert/compress from there. If you have a strong enough PC you can probably save to a more compressed codec right away.
Another is using a camcorder with digital pass-through.
Just some ideas to give you something to look into.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what VirtualDub is.