Jeff, A few questions to help narrow things down first. 1. What format are the tapes, VHS, Video-8, Mini-DV, Etc? 2. What platform are you using Mac, Windows, Linux? 3. What are you looking to do with the video, make standard watchable DVD’s, Edit, Post on YouTube? I can help steer you in the right direction. My day job is a video archivist who deals with tape from the 70’s to the 2010’s. Matt Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 6, 2021, at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I need advice how to best digitize video, mostly standard def TV/NTSC of VCF events.
I have several USB dongles that take composite and S-video. They may be adequate, but I don't know what one's really best.
I also have several DVR (digital VCR): Tivo, Sonic Blue replay-tv. Did those have good front-ends or was most of the attention to the subscription service? I know they need to be "jail broken" to work like VCRs. There's no big red "just record NOW!" button :-(
thanks
-- Jeff Jonas