capturing 8mm vhs as proress

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capturing 8mm vhs as proress

Hi, I am trying to capture some old 8mm footage I got. The footage is on a vhs tape. Currently I have been capturing all the footage w/ my hdv camera canon hv30, as the "medium". Everything has been captured w/ the default settings.

DV / DVCPRO / NTSC. 720x480 at 29.97 fps

I want to to capture this w/ the proress codec. what is the the best way to do this. is capturing it a 29.97 fps the right way? or do i need something different,

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Sep 4, 2009 11:20 PM

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Answer 1

Nick Holmes

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Sep 5, 2009 6:19 AM in response to Mr. Crayola

Might I ask why you want this as ProRes?

VHS has about 300 pixels vertical resolution at best. All you will have is enormous files with no discernible improvement in quality.

capturing all the footage w/ my hdv camera canon

If you captured as HDV it has already been compressed to MPEG 2.
Capture as DV and have done with it. Unless you need a backup with timecode, all you need to do is play the VHS through the camera and capture via FireWire.

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Mr. Crayola Author

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Sep 5, 2009 8:07 PM in response to Nick Holmes

well i was going to work w/some effects. I captured it w/ DV. I wanted to keep render times low.

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