• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  Hi @emmrecs Thanks again for your advice. I changed to MPEG2 on the laptop I was using, and it did seem to improve but still not great. So I decided to revert to an older laptop which had built in DVD, to take out one more cable with an external
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  @browj2 Hi John Unfortunately, the VCR does not have an S-Video output. I was sure that I had another VCR somewhere with S-Video. It works well. Does it? I am a bit surprised you would get any benefit unless the tape was recorded as Super VHS. My
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  @hdrechsel18 @emmrecs seriously consider whether it would be worth you investing in something like one of the Canopus (Grass Valley) range of hardware analogue to digital video convertors. This will allow you to convert the analogue footage from the
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  @hdrechsel18 OK, I will immediately "declare an interest" in this thread, since I do this sort of work "professionally", i.e. clients pay me to transfer VHS (and other types of analogue and digital footage) to DVD. To me, the most "critical" part of
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  Thanks John, I was looking at VPX, unfortunately my budget is a little tight these days, so I just upgraded my Premium package (2020). That Neat Video plugin looks like a winner. I'll look further into that - I assume it works with MEP? I have
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  I'm involved in a rather large project (Christmas gift for my brother): he gave me three 120 minute VHS tapes of his vacation trip to Alaska, that he would like me to place on a DVD for him. Simple enough, but I'm also working on a production that
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  @Mike-Gannon I'll be very interested to hear what the finished product looks like when using the MPEG-2 codec! As for alternative software - I'm not going to recommend any non-Magix product since I have no experience of using any other
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  Thanks Jeff. I will try that. As you can tell I am very inexperienced at this, and have just been selecting the defaults. The software did not suggest changed to MPEG-2 for DVD quality. Failing that I may have to look at alternative software, as I
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  One answer, on 6/24/2020

  [Closed] DVD copy quality
  Having problems with the quality of the MP4 output, which is inferior to the MVY copy. I have copied from a VHS source onto a laptop using S-Video and component cables (red, yellow, white). Whilst the original video quality is poor, as expected, the
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  Thanks @AAProds and Scenestealer, very helpful. Pardon my ignorance, but what is MEP, and MZV User Defined? I am using "Rescue your video Tapes" and this is not clear. Not sure there were many options when recording the VHS to computer. I see
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  @Mike-Gannon I agree with @AAProds Do not capture direct to MPEG2 DVD quality. Use a higher resolution and bitrate format and do some cleaning up in MEP first, perhaps even using Vitual DUB VHS filters, then export down to DVD quality. The noise and
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  @Mike-Gannon I used S-Video rather than Scart - does this make a difference, positive or negative? Absolutely use the S-video output from your player. VHS is terrible to work with; you need as much going for you as possible. Stepping back to the
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  Your DVD shouldn't look worse than your VHS copy. What type of file is your VHS copy, it's image size and bitrate?
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  Thanks for the replies. To clarify, I am copying a VHS tape playing on a Sony player, using the Composite cables supplied with the software. I used S-Video rather than Scart - does this make a difference, positive or negative? The copy on my HP
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 6/23/2020

  RE: video and sound captured magix sent out of sync
  @mark-perry Mark, re the first, I think you're being a bit harsh criticising MEP not capturing that VHS properly. That tape recording looks seriously corrupted and probably needs to be run through a TBC (Time-Based Corrector) between the VCR and the
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 6/23/2020

  video and sound captured magix sent out of sync
  example 1 - i used an external capture video for my own PAL VHS tape, the second clip was during the capture. it guess was caused by the in-between signal during the 2 tapings. example 2 - another one i'm trying to work on this is a NTSC widescreen
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  4 answers, most recent on 6/20/2020

  RE: COPY VHS TAPES FROM VHS MACHINE ONTO DVD DISCS IN DVD IN THE PC
  @TOMMYJ-LEN You chose "Rescue your videotapes" as your Magix product. Can you confirm that you are using this, and if so, exactly how you have connected your VHS player to your computer? If the connection is by means of a USB Dongle, what colour is
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  4 answers, most recent on 6/20/2020

  RE: COPY VHS TAPES FROM VHS MACHINE ONTO DVD DISCS IN DVD IN THE PC
  sorry about the capitals.......vhs tape playing onto dvd player in my pc not working
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  @Mike-Gannon Hi In addition to @AAProds comment, do bear in mind that the resolution of VHS is less than that of standard DVD: PAL VHS resolution is approximately 335×576 pixels NTSC VHS resolution is approximately 333×480 pixels DVD is 720x576px
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  4 answers, most recent on 6/20/2020

  COPY VHS TAPES FROM VHS MACHINE ONTO DVD DISCS IN DVD IN THE PC
  WEDDING BABY AND HOLIDAY TAPES
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality
  @Mike-Gannon Welcome to the Magix forums. How exactly are you copying a VHS recording? What are you using to view the resulting file which you say is reasonable quality? And what are using to view the resulting DVD? Can you explain in a little more
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  [Closed] DVD copy quality
  Having copied a VHS recording, the quality looks reasonable, but when copying to DVD it drops significantly. I am selecting DVD quality, as the original is not HD quality. Can anyone advise whether I should change any settings to retain the original
• Video Pro X

  One answer, on 6/16/2020

  gapture problem
  Has this problem been solved https://www.magix.info/us/forum/can-t-capture-vhs-to-4-3--1221061/ this was the result of capture a 4:3 file mp4 the nearest would be 720*576 but thats Pal and the sound ould work as the movies ntsc it wont excep avi as
• Movie Studio

  20 answers, most recent on 5/30/2020

  RE: Please format help!!
  Greetings, I have an LG TV that plays everything I plug into it. I know that everyone on this forum poo poos the idea of using WMV format, but honestly I find it better than MP4 where my TV is concerned. Higher quality for comparitive bitrates.