How tto capture VHS footage?

So far I have been capturing footage from MiniDV/ Dvcam format.
I have a project which requires me to capture footage from VHS tape. Can somebody please tell me what settings do I need to change to capture it?
Thanks.
MANDAR

Presumably you have the hardware to capture in the first place, if not;
http://www.canopus.us/US/products/ADVC-100/pm_advc-100.asp
should sort you out.
Other than that you need not change any settings, although you may need to switch the capture setting to 'non controllable device' if the capture hardware is not computer controllable and do the capture manually.
IF it's NTSC video then leave your capture setting alone, likewise if it's PAL, as long as the video format is correct it should be simple.

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Then a/v should be locked. Check the DV settings to make sure you're 48k all the way down the line.
Another alternative is to dub your VHS to DV and capture the DV. Those clips will be totally locked. Umm, they SHOULD be. If they're not, you have issues with the camera's DV codec settings and will need to seek the advice of users of that rig.
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1. Would this work:
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2. I'm using my S-VHS player and my DV player as a bridge to my computer. Which of these two is better/higher quality (or either I guess):
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I have to capture some VHS tapes to my Mac so I can burn them to DVDs. Can this be done without losing the closed-captioning?

Are these your own home-made VHS tapes? Recorded from tv?
All I can say is 'probably.' I would try capturing a small portion of the VHS tape into iMovie and see if you get the captioning. I know that time-stamp information is not recorded so it can be seen, but I assume that captioning would be.
How are you planning to do this?
For your purposes, it would make sense to use iMovie 6 and iDVD 6/8/9, since you could convert the VHS footage to DV format and then not have to worry about further conversions for either iMovie or iDVD.
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Problem with audio while capturing dv footage to fcp7 from my Canon xha1s
The footage is shot on down conversion dv settings from the Canon xha1s
The tapes also contain footage shot on a Sony vx1000 and a Canon gl-2
Heres where it gets weird
The footage from all three cameras plays back with audio perfectly no issue on the camera
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everything i even put it on the timeline and it played back perfectly
BUT when i go to file the footage from the "capture scratch" folder Theres NO audio
Where normal clips read "untitled01.mov" These clips read "untitled01-v"
I get it. Video only. Can't find any settings change to fix this.
I found a way to make fcp7 press out the "untitled01-a" & "untitled01-v" which i could then file. Sync in editor and use just fine
But the type of footage im editing literally gives me hundreds and hundreds of clips and that process is simply too meticulous
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Please How do i capture both of these -a -v files as one simple .mov format video in this instance
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Oddly enough when you play the captured footage outside of premiere, in windows media player say, it looks and sounds fine. But premiere chokes on it everytime I import it or capture it.
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...or, always look at the timecode display in the viewfinder or the LCD before you press REC. The nice display will ALWAYS indicate when you've reset the timecode. If the display is 00:00:00.00 or similar and you are NOT the very beginning of the tape, pressing record will start a new time code sequence everytime.
If you have END SEARCH, use it. this will usually work as long as you haven't removed the tape. Either way, rewinding the tape until a non-zero timecode appears and then pressing REC works. The camera will increment the timecode from that value..
I'm not at my editting station, but I seem to remember that PPPro has a capture setting that will cause it to ignore timecode breaks--you then edit out the rough section at each break when editing. Unless you're going to do something clever like recapturing HDV after capturing SD, you're not going to use the timecode anyway.
Then in the future, always look at the timecode display before you press REC. There is really no reason to stripe if you always remember this.

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Right now I capture HD footage in FCP from my Canon XH A1 via firewire 400 onto an external 7200 rpm hard drive connected via firewire 800. My iMac is getting a bid dated and I would like to upgrade to the highest end 15" MBP - except I'm not sure how I could still capture like this since there is only one firewire port. Also, I've been told that capturing over the same bus as that which is running the OS can slow things down and was therefore recommended to go with an eSATA express card - well the 15" doesn't have that now. What other options are there? Would I firewire hub work - can it capture and output to an external HD at the same time?
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There are two factors: how well does the Canon play with other on firewire, and is there enough bandwidth.
1. The other responder suggested a test at the Apple Store. I concur. You should also check out the iMovie or Final Cut Pro forums, depending on what you use for editing.
2. Bandwidth: you need about 25Mb/sec (3.1MB/sec) out of the 800Mb/sec available on the FW800 chain. However, generally, the whole buss slows down to the slowest device: FW100 in the case of video cams. But I still think that is fast enough.
3. Capturing to the internal drive should work: the MBP is supposed to be designed to do that, even with 5400rpm drives and iMovie (don't know about FCP). But I don't like doing that, either because the OS is running there.
As an experiment, try using your existing MBP with your external HDD and Canon XHA1 daisy chained and see if it works for long transfers (like a whole 1 hour tape). The speeds should be the same, and unless your a transcoding on import (to AIC or ProRes 422), the CPU speed should not matter much.
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You have a grasp of the issues and no, you are not really losing anything by using the DV cam as a converter. VHS was such a sucky format to begin with, the only thing that really might help is to put a TBC between the VHS source and the A/DV converter to deal with any timing/chroma issues.
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