Okay, a quick update on a cheap & simple answer that worked:engineerer wrote:I'm trying to copy things from 20-year-old VHS tapes, to a hard drive, in best possible resolution. I have a VHS player with an HDMI output, and I bought a Startech PEXHDCAP capture card with an HDMI input port. But, I cannot get it to grab scenes from manufactured videos (for personal use only, will never be posted or published anywhere).
The Startech software will block those tapes entirely, and Nero Vision and Ulead can't seem to find the right card or drivers.
Can anyone help me figure it out?
I bought a ViewHD 1X2 splitter, with 1 HDMI in, and 2 HDMI out, for about $20.
Here's a link showing one, and note the "New from $18.50" link below the pics:
http://www.amazon.com/ViewHD-Port-Power ... 004F9LVXC/
Lo and behold, after getting split, either stream worked just great.
But, I gotta say, they create EXTRA-huge files, if I get up into the highest quality settings.
I get uncomfortable, knowing I'm losing quality I could be grabbing;
but then, most of these will likely be burned to standard DVD's rather than Bluray,
and once that is done, I have no plans to keep these videos on my hard drives.
So . . . any suggestions re: settings that will keep me up at about a 95-97% quality level,
without trying to wrestle down the entire 100%?