Have you enabled System Settings → Privacy → App Permissions → Camera for desktop apps in Windows Control Panel?

I think one can be fairly certain with red being the DVC100, and blue being the DVC130, other colors are all over the place.

@@ConsumerDV Have you tried to use DVC100 in conjuction with OBS? Is it possibille due to a audio issues of device.

@@dragandragan6469 I did a while ago, I don't remember how successful it was. I don't use OBS for capturing off a camcorder.

I have a simple Technics double-cassette deck that allows manual bias adjustment, I also have a Kenwood deck that has auto-calibrate feature - it records a bunch of test sounds, rewinds, plays them back and sets it up automatically. Quite nice.

Indeed, I overlooked this method because DV only camcorders do not have HDMI out. The HV20 is an HDV camcorder that also can record and play DV. With HDMI, the video is converted into uncompressed format, which is lossless, then you either can keep it uncompressed, or re-compress to another format. Since the original video is compressed, the HDMI route is no better than capturing DV over Firewire or USB, but it is no worse either except for huge file size. It is a viable choice if you cannot capture DV as is. Thanks for pointing out to this option, I forgot about it.

@@ConsumerDV Thanks for the info!

Unlike VHS/8-mm video that burns date/time into the video, DV has a separate timecode track. Most NLEs have tools to display timecode info. I use Sony Vegas, so I would create a separate track on the timeline and add FXTimecode effect as a Text overlay.

Firewire is the standard method. USB 2.0 + UVC offers the same quality as via Firewire on camcorders that support it. Some camcorders that support webcam mode can recompress DV video into lower resolution and bitrate, but it is not what this video is about.

@@ConsumerDV I don't know for sure about Sony, but the Canon's & Panasonic's USB output is lower quality than the FW. It's written in the manual.

Depends on the model. This video is about the camcorders that offer full quality identical to Firewire.

Digital8 tape is in fact Hi8 tape. When used in a Hi8 camcorder you should be able to record in Hi8 format.

If you capture analog video using most of the A/D converters, you will get TFF interlaced video. DVD video is also TFF, so it matches, and yes, I keep it interlaced. DV is BFF, so you need to change field order for DVD, but as I edit my videos anyway, my NLE does this for me during render. DVD does not support 50p or 60p, so you need to keep the video interlaced to preserve the motion. Depending on your source video and on your NLE and authoring tools, you may render as 25p/30p or even 24p for film-like sources. I don't know how well native 25p/30p is supported for DVD. My 24p MPEG-2 files with 2:3 pulldown flags are not re-encoded by Sony DVD Architect, but it re-encodes my 30p files into 30i.

@@ConsumerDV I see, well same here I keep them interlaced from my converted LDs collection to DVDs but using a Pinnacle Liquid Edition Pro 6 which converted to 720x480i DV format before rendered to MPEG 2 using Vegas Pro. I chose bottom field first since LD, DV and DVD are BFF mode and also to retain the two fields so my TV or other devices can properly deinterlaced it to 60fps. I did burned them using DVD Architect too. FYI, I did try progressive mode in Vegas Pro properties when I started digitizing but it threw away one of the fields which made the videos terrible when watching on a flatscreen. BTW, is it true that interlaced DVD contained progressive scan too?

DVDs can do progscan up to 30p. I suggest reading this: hometheaterhifi.com/technical/technical-reviews/dvd-benchmark-part-5-progressive-scan-dvd/ Since you are converting from LD, the easiest way is to keep it interlaced and to rely on DVDs ability to recognize pulldown patterns. For KZbin you may want to search for a suitable pattern yourself and to deinterlace to 24p, 30p or 60p whichever fits.

@@ConsumerDV thanks and will do. I do upload some karaoke videos in 60fps transferred from LDs but its a more complicated way. I digitised them first using a Pinnacle Liquid Edition Pro 6 to a DV file then rendered to MPEG2 using Vegas Pro and finally to DVD using DVD Architect Pro (all interlaced source with 0.0901 lines). When it comes to deinterlacing I simply use Handbrake to rip from the DVDs.

Lately I capture analog to DV as well, edit in Vegas, render back to DV, which is non-destructive and very fast if I only do straight cuts, then I either author the resulting video to DVD or deinterlace and upscale for KZbin. Despite common wisdom I prefer my DV captures to uncompressed ones.

If you stop and think of it, 1994 was 30 years ago :)

@@ConsumerDV i don't want to hahahaha

I also have a CCD-TR400 from 1994, I will review it later.

@@ConsumerDV same here

​@@ConsumerDV also I watch some of the parts of the video and I saw you recording VHS cameras from a mall are they making VHS cameras again or did they just find them around the world like on eBay and then they fix them up and make them new again cuz that's insane if they're doing that

The 8-mm clips shown in the video were recorded in 1994 :)

@@ConsumerDV oh wow damn but that's still cool though I thought they were making them again but now not anymore it would have been cool though if they did again

Yeah, it looks quite good considering that it is standard Video8, not Hi8.

Thank you!

I bought the AverMedia card for $50 on AliExpress, when it was sold for $120-150 in the US. It is out of production, AverMedia even removed all info about the card from its website, including the drivers, which is outrageous. Too bad that it would not digitize tapes protected with Macrovision. Still, for the price I bought it, it is quite nice :)

Lately I have switched to capturing to DV myself - the visual loss is minimal, DV is widely compatible, it works better with my NLE. I load a whole tape for editing, edit with straight cuts, render back to DV, which is lightning fast because there is no re-encoding, then deinterlace and upscale only the edited portion. This way I am getting the result quicker :)

@@ConsumerDV By the way, I capture video using the ScenalyzerLive program, 2GB of file at a time and use it to cut off unnecessary fragments and defective frames, then combine them into one file using the same program. It turns out very fast on my i3 processor

I use it too, sometimes WinDV does not work, but ScenalyzerLive does. But I don't cut up the video into smaller chunks when capturing. A two-hour 8-mm cassette comes to about 26 GB of DV video.

Vegas worked for me once, then stopped working as well, no sound. I suggest trying different software. Surprisingly, WinDV that is meant for Firewire transfer, worked for me when transferring via USB.

@@ConsumerDV ok, thank you very much, and it doesn't work through the other apps as well? I would try to download them somewhere, I don't want to buy a usb converter for one video :D. thank you for your reply.

It DOES work through the other apps. Good luck!

@@ConsumerDV ty🤙🤙

I deinterlaced all of the clips and stabilized some of them. No color correction.

Yes, VHS-C at EP speed.

Have you noticed vertical saturation trails at 7:02 ? A classic CCD artefact, it looks almost cute. I bet people will start replicating it soon :)

Does Retrotink have a TBC? The output is not perfect but considering how bad it looks without a TBC I think it is quite acceptable, also about 5% on the edges would be hidden in the overscan area of an old-school TV.

Yes, it will work just the same. Depending on how your DVD recorder converts analog into digital, you may not need to crop the frame width to 704 pixels. DVD video is Top Field First.

What camcorder model do you have? I have not installed any special drivers for mine.

@@ConsumerDV sony handycam "dcr-trv265e"

You are supposed to set the camcorder to USB Stream mode, then connect it to a computer, agree with Windows setting up the driver, then Sony's USB Streaming Tool - which you should have installed earlier - is supposed to start up, and you should be able to set the quality so that there are no dropouts. I wonder whether at the highest quality setting the camcorder sends full-resolution DV over USB.

@@ConsumerDV

I would start with connecting the VHS player to a TV via composite to make sure it sends the signal. Then I would make sure the driver for the A/D converter has correctly installed. Then I would start a capture app like VirtualDub and make sure the A/D converter can be selected from the Device menu. Select Video->Video Source->Video Composite. Also try selecting Video->Preview instead of Video->Overlay.

It is hard to say. It definitely has _some_ USB capability. The user manual reads, "You can connect a USB cable (supplied) to your camcorder, and view the picture displayed on the screen of your camcorder on your computer (USB Streaming)." If you set the camcorder to USB Streaming and turn Easy Handycam mode off, then you should be able to see something, then again you may need to install Sony's proprietary USB Streaming Tool.

I have several of these. I uploaded them about a year ago, but then took them down after YT demonetized me. Now I am bringing them back. I moved other stuff like music videos and docos digitized off VHS tapes to another channel.

@@ConsumerDV interesting .. I d k why but my preference are for the various tourist video, visiting and exploring, doing some cool things In the 80,90s,...

@@ConsumerDV it's satisfying to see the videos in 1080p 60 too

Staying in the digital domain should help reducing the number of conversions. I don't have means to ingest from HDMI though.

Mostly old cassettes sold on garage sales.

The IRC uses composite input? Sure, why not. I don't use it, just looked it up. It seems there are different variants of those IRC cameras, some discard one field, halving both temporal and spatial resolution. But there also seem to be ones that can do 60p, these are better. There no need to search for this particular camcorder just to simulate Super8 :) I'd say any CCD-based camcorder will do. If it can do progscan, it is better, if not, you'll just drop one field and blur vertically a little. Most CMOS-based cameras use rolling shutter, so when you pan, everything distorts, skews and leans to a side, very much not like film. CCD has global shutter, so even if you shake the camera, it looks similar to how a picture from film camera would look. Everything else besides motion artifacts - color, frame rate, grain - can be simulated in post.

JVC GR-DVL9000.

@@ConsumerDVhow did you edit the video? I ended up getting the same camera for a good deal and looking to color grade it

I use Vegas Pro for Windows.

@@ConsumerDVsweet. Thanks for the replies. This channel is feeding my camcorder addiction 😅