VHS to DVD

[Hyphven]

My goal is to take VHS video and put it on DVD, i have read through the tutorial on this site and learned a lot. I have tried VirtualVCR for capturing and I alwats have sync problems. I used the software that came with the capture card, its called PVRPlus, its total crap. I have also used virtual dub and messed around with settings and i stilll have audio sync problems.

I am considering buying an external set up that will convert it to DV and import it via firewire. I know this will be considerably more expensive, but if it will work considerable better I will take the chance.

I recently bought Roxio Easy CD&DVD Creator 6 to create menus and ultimately burn the final product to DVD.

Thanks so much for taking time to read this.

-Hyphven

[mg262]

I found that the only application I could get audio synchronisation in was iuVCR. (And I had to play with the settings there.) I assume in virtualVCR you've tried both with and without the resampling audio options?

[Boulder]

I strongly recommend trying the latest VirtualDub for capturing. If you have sync problems, please post the settings you've tried, otherwise it's very hard to help you.

One thing to try would be cropping the garbage lines off the bottom while capturing. I've noticed that it can make a huge difference regarding frame drops etc.

[tsp]

or get a capture card that also capture the audio(instead of using the soundcard) ie a tvcard that uses the philips saa713x chip. Now I only need to fix this (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=714137&postcount=4) problem...

[CirTap]

agree with Boulder: I switched to VirtualDub 1.6+ as my main capture programm using either PicVideo MJPEG Q19, or Huffyuv as the codec, and uncompressed audio (44.1k for VHS sources).
I have a constant value of 7 dropped frames right after pressing F5 (capture), and that's it: no drops, perfect sync.
Average "movie" length eats up some 30gigs, which is no prob for a (dedicated) NTFS formatted drive.

If you crop off the bottom lines (8-12), makes sure to add them back in the video goes on a DVD, e.g. use a AviSynth script with AddBorder().
I usually Trim() the capture with an AVS script and let VirtualDub write a WAV for MPA or AC3 compressin in BeSweet. The "video" goes to HC encoder from the very same source AVS so I always keep the sync.
Then I either mux the M2V and MPA/AC3 with Muxman for a "simple disc" or launch a DVD authoring tool to compile an episodes DVD with menu.

Have fun,
CirTap