My grandparents are downsizing there collections of turds and gold and they want their homemade movies archived. I was thinking of a component capture card with obs. What would be a good capture card or a better way to archive?
UPDATE 1: So, my DVD vhs combo was a total piece of shit and ate my Addams family Vhs tape!!! I found a vhs player that works and looks pretty decent.
I bought a black magic intensity pro capture card (BMDPCB41G1) but I’m struggling to get the driver to recognize the card, I tried win10 but I’m gonna try Ubuntu and an older 4th gen intel motherboard. This is all I have for now, any help would be cool.
Is the DVD a writer? If you’re fortunate enough, that can be the easiest way to dump it down: Pop it on a DVD, and import.
Otherwise, old black magic cards can surprise you under Linux! Though definitely worth looking if anybody on the forums has used the one you’re looking at.
You want to work natively: Get an S-video out into an s-video in that handles the resolution correctly, and makes you a nice native-resolution file.
VHS archiving can be a goddamned rabbit hole, it’s worth deciding what will be good enough". Or if you want to go down the rabbit hole, look up Timebase Correction.
