Good Deck Reccomendation

Hello-
I want to get a decent deck that I can use with FCE that will import Mini DV and VHS. Any assistace would be greatly appreciated.

miniDV decks are expensive.
I use a standard VHS deck and I also purchased a used miniDV camera in great condition on Ebay to use as a "full time" allways connected deck for my FCE editing system. My video camera has analog inputs so I hook it up between my VHS VCR and my Mac. It works great for under $200 total for both decks. You NEED the analog inputs in the video camera for the VHS tape capture. I do not know of a cheaper way to go and I do not think you could get any better quality of "capture" at any budget even if you spent 1-2 thousand on top of the line decks and a box. You may have everything you need to hook this up now. I purchased mine because I wanted it to stay connected to the computer all the time. It will also save wear and tear on my "GOOD" video camera I use for shooting. Your capture deck will see alot of wear and tear from pausing, FF, RR, etc.
Hope this helps.
Frank

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If you will be transfering a lot of old VHS tapes and Dont have a good deck with TBC, consider the canopus ADVC 300 AD converter with noise correction. Below is a review i did a while ago...
Curt Wrigley
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For me the biggest benefit of the box is doing the color correction in real time as it is captured while cleaning some of the grain at the same time. This is faster for me than correcxting it in PPRO. Also, it is better to attempt the clean up while the video is analog rather in post; there is more information available. I liked the AGC (auto gain corrector) for video and audio. As sceens change it does a decent job making adjustments. (Sometimes the changes are too abrupt, so it depends on the footage)
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JVC HRS9911 SVHS VCR connected to ADVC300 via Svideo. ADVC300 connected via 1394 to my NLE
Test 1: Old VHS Beach footage
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/advc300/beach.wmv
This was using the default settings of the ADVC right out of the box.
Test 2a Home movie with 3d NR filters on strong
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/advc300/home_movie1.wmv
This compares original to advc with the 3d NR filters on the strong setting. The 2D filters are off. Note; you will see some of the ghosting problem during the fast movement.
My WebpageTest 2b Same Home movie capture showing NR on AND off
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/advc300/home_movie2.wmv
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Test 3 Wedding footage vhs dup in EP mode
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/advc300/wedding.wmv
Here's everyone's favorite. A VHS wedding copied to another VHS in EP mode. No magic here, but the NR does improve the background quite a bit.
Test 4 Old super8 footage that was transfered to VHS several years ago
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/advc300/super8.wmv
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John mentioned the ADVC300. I did a review on it for a magazine long ago. Here's a summary with some online demos.
I dug this up from an old post:
If you will be transfering a lot of old VHS tapes and Dont have a good deck with TBC, consider the canopus ADVC 300 AD converter with noise correction. Below is a review i did a while ago...
====
For me the biggest benefit of the box is doing the color correction in real time as it is captured while cleaning some of the grain at the same time. This is faster for me than correcxting it in PPRO. Also, it is better to attempt the clean up while the video is analog rather in post; there is more information available. I liked the AGC (auto gain corrector) for video and audio. As sceens change it does a decent job making adjustments. (Sometimes the changes are too abrupt, so it depends on the footage)
Note; My VCR has a TBC built in. So, it does a pretty good job on its own stabalizing footage ebfore it even gets to the ADVC300. So, the results would be more dramtic if I was using a VCR without TBC.
For the curious, below are links to 5 videos I output to WMV showing the videos captured via a DV deck -vs the ADVC (using split screen)
My setup is as follows:
- Capturing without the ADVC300:
JVC HRS9911 SVHS VCR conneted through a sony DSR-25 DV deck via Svideo. The sony DV deck simply provides analog passthru to DV. Of course the deck is connected to my NLE via 1394.
- Capturing with ADVC300:
JVC HRS9911 SVHS VCR connected to ADVC300 via Svideo. ADVC300 connected via 1394 to my NLE
Test 1: Old VHS Beach footage
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/advc300/beach.wmv
This was using the default settings of the ADVC right out of the box.
Test 2a Home movie with 3d NR filters on strong
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/advc300/home_movie1.wmv
This compares original to advc with the 3d NR filters on the strong setting. The 2D filters are off. Note; you will see some of the ghosting problem during the fast movement.
My WebpageTest 2b Same Home movie capture showing NR on AND off
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/advc300/home_movie2.wmv
Same footage as the previous clip. This time the left shows capture via ADVC300 with NO Noise filters on. Right side is with the same 3D NR filters on Strong.
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http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/advc300/wedding.wmv
Here's everyone's favorite. A VHS wedding copied to another VHS in EP mode. No magic here, but the NR does improve the background quite a bit.
Test 4 Old super8 footage that was transfered to VHS several years ago
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