Thank you for this video. Very well explained.

Hello! Just want to point out that your work is amazing and very useful! Thank you again for that. I watched your video very carefully and the only question I have to ask you is about the second method, the digitization with minidv device, are you aware that many old miniDV cameras have line TBC that is active and working in digitization mode? It would be really interesting to check, test and compare the line TBC that probably is already there in your mini DV camera with other line TBC that are inherent in SVHS players or Panasonic DVD recorders.

Love these videos which you are doing. The VirtualDub settings I have been using based on a different video, which seem to work fine as well, is to uncheck the first two boxes (drop frames when captured frames are too close together and insert null frames when captured frames are too far apart,) then to Sync audio to video by resampling... and finally enabled correct video timing for few frame drops/inserts. So far this works on all the tapes I have captured. Once it doesn't I plan on purchasing a RetroTINK 5x to use a frame TBC so if you jump down that rabbit hole in the future please post a video about how well it works for you.

Another great comparison! My understanding is that a frame TBC can drop and insert frames as needed without being able to view the statistics that it has happened. If frames arrive too quickly, then it has to drop frames if its buffer is already full. If frames arrive too slowly, it will eventually run out of buffered frames and have to repeat at least remaining frame in its memory buffer until the buffer is refilled. The main downside of a TBC is that it's essentially a mild generation loss since analog is converted to digital and then back to analog. An ideal TBC would convert to digital and then output that digital signal to then capture. Some TBCs do have SDI out which is digital and they would have at least a theoretical advantage over an analog in to analog out TBC like the ones you mention. Whether that "generation loss" is perceptible to the average person is another question. An ideal chain would have only a single analog to digital conversion that is then captured. If you wanted to do a comparison video to show image quality degradation caused by passthrough devices, you might try outputting DVD playback passed through both the ES10 and the DVK then the capture card versus capturing that same DVD directly into your capture card. DVDs will not have time base errors, so this test only shows how multiple passthrough devices will degrade the original image quality. The ES10 in particular is said to cause "posterization" which is a type of detail loss . You'll also be able to rip that DVD and show what the original truly should have looked like if the capture was "perfect".

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My AG-1980 succumbed to bad capacitors a while back, leaving me with no TBC-enabled VCR. I picked up a DMR-ES15 off of ebay for under $50 and it's been pretty decent after I sorted out its IRE menu settings.

I think that the Panasonic DMR-ES10EG (PAL) still has the Panasonic MN673744 Frame TBC/Synchronizer IC, and the much worse DMR-ES15EG (PAL) has the input selection IC with integrated Line TBC. But you can quickly find out whether after the ES10 the picture comes about 3 frames too late compared to the sound. The Panasonic DMR-E55EG (PAL) sold in Germany has the internals of the Panasonic DMR-E50 sold in the USA with a more modern housing. The PAL and NTSC versions are therefore not directly comparable. I was not able to test the Panasonic DMR-ES10EG myself, as only the "Made in Slovakia" version was sold in Europe.

I assume that the frame base correction does not release the frame at 29.97 seconds, but a 29.97 FRAMES per second (NTSC)

Are there any weird pitch effects from the Audio Resync? Hopefully it's working well for you.

There are other ways of better quality but are niche and the hardware is a little bit expensive, Not as expensive as a TBC-1000 though. One of them is lossless over firewire, this requires an IOS and a firewire capture box that captures lossless AVI (not DV), The second is analog to SDI, some of these SDI devices have both line and frame TBC and output digital SDI, you would need a SDI-USB3, SDI-TB or SDI-PCIe adapter to get the lossless AVI into the hard drive.

It is good that you are testing things out for yourself. I think once you capture the video with Premiere Pro and a Firewire DV converter you will realize what a waste of time it was to use the cheap USB capture device with cheap software like OBS, VirtualDub, handbrake etc.

Have you tried capturing with Premiere? I have been using a firewire pass-thru method and using CS4 to do the capture. It captures the clips as AVI files at pretty decent quality. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this.