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I'm not sure if this is the proper place to start this thread, but here it goes.I love TV....always have and I love saving stuff from TV.The result of this is I now have hundreds of VHS tapes that I want to digitize and put on a hard drive, so I can finally put VHS AND VCRs behind me for good.Until recently I was working on an 8+ year old computer, so I didn't exactly have the best computer for getting the job done.On top of that I've actually got an HD DVR, but it's been full for a while, and again, no way to get my recordings to my PC, but I came into a little money recently, so I finally upgraded my system.
To make sure I was up to the task I just got a new computer(Intel core i7 3770 3.4GHz quad core ivy bridge, 1GB AMD HD Radeon 7570 video card, 8 gigs of ram soon to be 16) and a new video capture card, the Avermedia USB HD DVR with built in hardware H.264/MP4 encoder.It works great for dubbing stuff off of my DirecTV DVR.It's like no stress on my system.I can even do other stuff while it's capturing.Now all I have to do is digitize all of my old VHS tapes.The problem is that everytime i've tried so far at some point in the tape it starts to drop frames and video and audio get knocked out of sync.
Now, these tapes are relatively old(maybe about 10 years, or so), but they're in decent shape.I'm also using a regular 4 head Hi-Fi HQ Admiral VCR.This is really frustrating for me.Is there a way to fix this?Is there a way to fix it in editing?I thought maybe I can just adjust the audio and video time lines to sync them back up.Would that work?The card and software outputs the file in TS format and I don't know any good video editing software that works with that format.If anybody can help, i'm all ears.
To make sure I was up to the task I just got a new computer(Intel core i7 3770 3.4GHz quad core ivy bridge, 1GB AMD HD Radeon 7570 video card, 8 gigs of ram soon to be 16) and a new video capture card, the Avermedia USB HD DVR with built in hardware H.264/MP4 encoder.It works great for dubbing stuff off of my DirecTV DVR.It's like no stress on my system.I can even do other stuff while it's capturing.Now all I have to do is digitize all of my old VHS tapes.The problem is that everytime i've tried so far at some point in the tape it starts to drop frames and video and audio get knocked out of sync.
Now, these tapes are relatively old(maybe about 10 years, or so), but they're in decent shape.I'm also using a regular 4 head Hi-Fi HQ Admiral VCR.This is really frustrating for me.Is there a way to fix this?Is there a way to fix it in editing?I thought maybe I can just adjust the audio and video time lines to sync them back up.Would that work?The card and software outputs the file in TS format and I don't know any good video editing software that works with that format.If anybody can help, i'm all ears.