Best VHS to DVD software? / Future HD Editing

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The Best VHS to DVD software? / Future HD Editing


Sounds like this Be the place. I am researching the links that Schadenfroh posted, thanks for that. has anyone used the software titles I have listed below? (I😕 heard that about pinnacle)



I have an old 1997 JVC Analog Camcorder and about fifty VHS-C tapes I would like to copy, edit, burn, so my family can view these on their own CD or DVD disk players. I realize this would be all real time editing. I might even invest in another 500GB WD External HD, or one Terabyte (1000GB) because my present HD is half full, and I will need lots of video storage.
That?s Old technology, and I am thinking for the future, to get a onboard Hard Drive High Definition Video camera, so I wanted to know if I would have to purchase tow separate software items.
1) For backing up old VHS tapes to disks, and 2) To burn HD 1080i or 1080p HD to DVD to play on the HDTV display. (I don?t know if people are even using regular CD?s for this, or only DVD?S...and not all my friends even have a bluRay player, and certainly don?t have a Blu-Ray burner on my computer?yet)
I also have Nero Ultra7, which I burn audio mp3?s to cda/wav files, so I need to know if all I need is a video capture card to use with Nero, and forget about buying anything else except the HD Video editing software.
Since I already have the Nero7, I don?t want to buy anything that would conflict with the Nero, like maybe the ROXIO VHS to DVD. I was told by someone at Fry?s electronics, that I would first have to remove the Nero to install the Roxio. He also told me that Tape like Mini-DV is always better for editing that the new Hard Drive Video cameras.
I was also looking at the following software and wondered if anyone has used them:
MAGIX?s ?Rescue Your Video?,
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 14 plus..
(maybe for the HD editing, when I decide on a camera)
HONESTECH?s VHS to DVD v4.0,
Or PINNACLE STUDIO PLUS v.12 software.

As you may have guessed, I am totally confused on these issues. When I do burn the files, what format? MPEG2,.MOV, AVI?
I would like to be able to edit by fading in/out the snowy, bad areas of the old camcorder tapes and maybe even add mp3 music as background for the non-voice areas of the VHS. (not a biggie)
I?d hate to think that on the Mini-DV, this is better suited to easier edit tape than the newer built in hard drive cameras. To me, it?s like stepping back a few steps in technology than going forward, I just don?t know.
Thanks tons!

 

[manko]

I recently started a VHS to DVD archiving project myself. Although I have used various capture cards in the past, I decided to pick up a standalone DVD Recorder for ease of use. I'm not editing most of my recordings, so they're playable straight out of the Recorder. To edit and re-author new DVDs I recommend Videoredo which will allow you to edit without re-encoding your video (and without adding a second generation of MPEG2 compression).

As for advanced processing, cleanup and restoration, AVISynth is the best bet, but you'll spend a lot of time testing and trying to figure out the best filters for your video.

http://www.videohelp.com/ is a good place to start reading.

 

[Ken g6]

That's a lot of questions. Let me work backwards from disk burning.

It looks like chances are slim that you can burn true HD video to a regular DVD and get a Blu-Ray player to play it. (Except possibly for an XBox.)

Your next best bet is to convert your HD video to standard definition DVD format. (It doesn't look that bad, IMHO.) There are several threads on how to convert any video, including anything you get from VHS as well, for DVD, like this one. They mostly cover the same software. Regular DVDs have to be burned specially - you can't just throw the files on a disc - but these programs usually include that capability, interfacing with Nero.

If you know someone's player plays "DivX" or "XviD", you can also use something like Auto Gordian Knot to create avi files, and burn them to DVD. You don't need any special burning method; but not all standalone players will play the video. I don't know of any players that play HD DivX, either.

There are a couple of Video CD formats; but they only store an hour per disc, and they're low resolution, so you probably don't want to play either one back on an HD set.

For video editing, I don't know of anything better (or harder to use 😛) than AviSynth. When using AviSynth, the quality will be as good as it can be when creating a new video from a previous one. The Doom9 forum is a good place to learn about AviSynth.