I need to buy an analog capture card to transfer VHS, SVHS and regular 8mm video to my hard drive so I can edit and convert to DVD. 99% of this stuff would be home movies, but there are some special commercial VHS tapes I have which have never been released on DVD that I would like to backup to DVD as they are getting quite old.
For non Macrovision encoded material, I can pass the analog signal through my Sony Digital 8 camcorder and it converts it to digital on the fly and passes the signal on to my PC via Firewire. It does not require recording the signal on tape. It acts like a capture card and I can capture the Firewire signal in DV AVI format if I so wish.
This set up does not work if the analog signal coming into the camcorder has Macrovision encoding. The same is true if I pass the signal through a Macrovision "black box" copy device. The camcorder sees the Macrovision and reports that it can’t be copied (not even passed through). I can record the signal on an 8mm VCR then play that tape in the Digital 8 and capture via Firewire, but that adds a generation to the image quality.
So what I need is a high quality capture card that will capture analog signals that have Macrovision encoding (VHS encoding not DVD). I will also be able to stop tying up my camcorder as a capture card.
Any suggestions?
For non Macrovision encoded material, I can pass the analog signal through my Sony Digital 8 camcorder and it converts it to digital on the fly and passes the signal on to my PC via Firewire. It does not require recording the signal on tape. It acts like a capture card and I can capture the Firewire signal in DV AVI format if I so wish.
This set up does not work if the analog signal coming into the camcorder has Macrovision encoding. The same is true if I pass the signal through a Macrovision "black box" copy device. The camcorder sees the Macrovision and reports that it can’t be copied (not even passed through). I can record the signal on an 8mm VCR then play that tape in the Digital 8 and capture via Firewire, but that adds a generation to the image quality.
So what I need is a high quality capture card that will capture analog signals that have Macrovision encoding (VHS encoding not DVD). I will also be able to stop tying up my camcorder as a capture card.
Any suggestions?