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No I’m not off my rocker, because it is fact.

DVD is compressed, but nowhere near what 4K or 1080p gets compressed to for streaming (4K on streaming is, a lot of times running at 12-15Mbps, while 1080p will be around 7-8Mbps).

No Linux doesn’t sidestep it, because the hardware needs to send the information to the computer and it sends that through highly compressed H.264.

They have upgraded it some since it was originally designed to be those department store “VHS-to-DVD” devices.

No you won’t. Streaming compresses the signal to where it’s worst than DVD, and DVD will beat a 4K stream any days.

You just posted misinformation.

No, the hardware only captures in h.264, and then your computer is converting it to lossless when you select FFV1. You’re not getting true lossless.

There are but those USB ones tend to just be the same Easycap clones just with different model numbers and interference eliminators stuck on to try to stop interference. You don’t get good Hauppauge or Elgato stuff unless you go for their expensive stuff. Otherwise those USB-stick-looking ones are just Easycap/Clearclick/IO Data clones. And they don’t capture lossless—-they just use software to make you think they do.

The Hauppauge USB-Live2 is just a rebadged Easycap/Clearclick.

And BOB deinterlacing is terrible. Any software deinterlacing is terrible and doesn’t do anywhere as near of a good job as a hardware deinterlacer.

Well that portta’s not doing you any good.

It’s not my opinion. It’s facts and you keep stating misinformation as fact when it’s not fact.

That S icon will engage when the camcorder is in S-VHS-ET mode as well as true S-VHS mode.

Your sure they were S-VHS-C tapes and not just branded “Super” VHS to try to indicate quality, or Super wasn’t a brand name?

You’re sure about that. Because in your original post you were saying VHS-C, and your video quality does not support true S-VHS.

Let’s see, ABC, NBC, CBS, CTV, Newsmax, CNN, CBC….need I go further.

OBS is not used by professionals nor news organizations.

They are misinformation.

The Portta is a horrible device (it’s a Digitnow/Easycap clone) and it’s not showing 60fps. And you only have half your resolution.

But how were you connected? Was it just by the composite connection? For S-VHS, S-Video is the superior connection and will show higher quality than over composite.

Also if you were just using regular VHS-C tapes then you were not getting full S-VHS quality. Your camcorder was recording S-VHS-ET, which, depending on the tape quality could look virtually identical to true S-VHS (we’re talking BASF chromium tapes), while most standard grade VHS tape offered a tiny bit of improvement.

The majority of news organizations are using Ross Video switchers, and for editing individual stories, they are using Premiere Pro or Final Cut or Avid. They are not using OBS.

https://www.rossvideo.com/products/production-switchers/carbonite-hypermax/

No they don’t. Stop spreading misinformation.

That Portta cannot deinterlace properly. It’s a Digitnow clone which is just an Easycap clone with a screen attached. All it does is capture 1 field of the 2 fields that make up 1 interlace frame, then it doubles that 1 field to create a fake 480p frame.

The Portta is absolute garbage.

I don’t know what you mean by “word camera”, but no the tapes won’t be destroyed. Just make sure to flip the anti-record switch to the save position.

And they are misinformation.

They could be analog but they could also be digital because both tapes could be used on an analog Video8 or Hi8 and digital Digital8 cameras. The only way to know is to play them. Best thing would be to get a Digital8 camera like a DCRTRV110 that plays both analog and digital recordings. However Digital8 will give you your highest quality and cleanest transfer of analog Video8 and Hi8 recordings over FireWire. And for Digital8, FireWire will give you a 1:1 pure digital transfer that is lossless to what’s on the tape.

The only major problem will be if you recorded in LP. LP was never standardized, so a lot of times LP recordings will only play correctly on the camera that originally recorded the tape.

As for NTSC or PAL, if the original camera was bought in North America then it was very likely a NTSC camera. If you were in Europe then it would be PAL.

Yes it is misinformation. OBS is not used by professionals.

No it’s not even close because all the Portta is is an Easycap clone that only captures half your resolution and framerate

And capturing Digital8 and MiniDV by S-Video is causing quality loss because both of those are digital on tape, and S-Video is analog. FireWire allows for a 1:1 pure digital transfer with zero loss in quality. And FireWire is the ultimate and cleanest way to transfer Hi8, because it’s digitizing right at the video head.

You are talking about an analog camcorder from about the late-80’s/early-90’s.

It’s not the tapes that are giving you the issue, it’s the yellow composite RCA output. Video8 recorded its color and black & white signals separately on tape. The composite out combines them into one and reduces the quality severely and adds crosstalk and dry crawl and color bleed to the images.

If you want better quality from the tape, you need an analog Hi8 with S-Video or a Digital8 with FireWire that can read the signals separately (and the Digital8 digitizes them right at the video head for the cleanest and ultimate signal).

Otherwise I would recommend getting a camera that can records directly to SD card, because they never made high quality digital capture devices for capturing from analog cameras on the go. And the cheap ones out there like the Digitnow/iRecord are just Easycap clones with screens that only capture half your resolution and framerate and do a poor job separating a composite signal into component video.

I remember seeing it on Global in the 80’s.

Remember that Koenig wrote the script for “The Infinite Vulcan” from TAS that Alan Dean Foster in “Star Trek Log 2”.

He also voiced the audio adaptation of the novel “Windows On A Lost World”.

You’ve got a S-VHS-C camcorder there. You’ll need a S-Video cable or S-VHS-VCR to get the highest quality from it. There are SQPB VHS VCRs that will play S-VHS-C, but only at VHS quality.

You’ll also want a high quality capture device such as a Canopus ADVC-100/-300 or Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle. Those Easycap/Clearclick/IO Data USB2/clone devices will only capture half your resolution and framerate.