Hello!
I am new to OBS and to video editing in general, truthfully I will probably only be using the software to convert old VHS tapes into digital format. I hope someone can help me make sure I have the right settings for the purpose.
My current setup has resulted in black bars on both sides of the video, and files too large to manage (I mean, about 30GB file size for a 2-hour video...).
Additionally, the old tapes had lost a lot of clarity, and while the audio is clear, the video has stripes and all kinds of interference, which I suppose cannot be helped now; but tinkering with different aspects of the setup resulted in a video with much worse viewing quality.
I read in the forums that I should only be using 320x240 resolution...
Regarding settings, at the moment I have:
Device: AV to USB2.0
Output
Output Mode: Simple
Recording Quality: High Quality, Medium File Size
Recording Format: mkv
Encoder: Hardware (QSV)
Video
Base (Canvas) Resolution: 1280x720
Qutput (Scaled) Resolution: 1280x720
Downscale Filter: Bicubic
Common FPS Values: 25 PAL
Thank you for your help - I only have once chance of digitizing those videos and want to make sure I'm doing this right.
I am new to OBS and to video editing in general, truthfully I will probably only be using the software to convert old VHS tapes into digital format. I hope someone can help me make sure I have the right settings for the purpose.
My current setup has resulted in black bars on both sides of the video, and files too large to manage (I mean, about 30GB file size for a 2-hour video...).
Additionally, the old tapes had lost a lot of clarity, and while the audio is clear, the video has stripes and all kinds of interference, which I suppose cannot be helped now; but tinkering with different aspects of the setup resulted in a video with much worse viewing quality.
I read in the forums that I should only be using 320x240 resolution...
Regarding settings, at the moment I have:
Device: AV to USB2.0
Output
Output Mode: Simple
Recording Quality: High Quality, Medium File Size
Recording Format: mkv
Encoder: Hardware (QSV)
Video
Base (Canvas) Resolution: 1280x720
Qutput (Scaled) Resolution: 1280x720
Downscale Filter: Bicubic
Common FPS Values: 25 PAL
- What should be the optimum settings for capturing VHS?
- How do I make sure I capture video at the best possible quality for its format?
- How do I reduce the resulting file size?
- Should I make use of any video filters, and which?
- How to make sure I have the correct bitrate?
- Perhaps you have some advice if you know of a way to reduce the damage done by time to the VHS tapes (stripes, noise etc.) I tried some software post-processing but it did not seem to do anything.
- Black bars on both sides of the recording: should I remove them, and how (understanding that 16:9 is now the preferred scale and they would probably be added later anyway when uploaded to YouTube etc). Also at the moment I center the input video by hand and position the red and blue frames around the edges of it, but surely there must be a better way of doing this.
Thank you for your help - I only have once chance of digitizing those videos and want to make sure I'm doing this right.