Anything more is probably just a waste of time & HD space.
At the quality setting where you can see a difference in real-time quality, you probably don't need to set the bit rate much higher for VHS capture.
You might want to try experimenting by capturing a short 5 minute clip at different quality settings, then do an "eyeball" comparison of the results. The result will never be as good as a high end commercial DVD, since the source quality (VHS) is nowhere as good to begin with.
You can download free trials of both applications.īear in mind that you are converting VHS format to DVD format. I have found WinDVD Recorder to be a better capture program & WinDVD Creator a better editing/authoring program than Showbiz, cost you around $150 the pair. It sounds logical in theory, but I'm not understanding how to bypass the ShowBiz encoder after all my capturing, editing and such.Īs Minion notes, Showbiz is a rather low end program, usually bundled with a hardware video capture device, as it was with mine. So, this is really what I'm saying.People are suggesting that longer programs CAN be burned to a DVD-R WITHOUT reducing the bit-rate by using a better encoder. When the project is all prepared and one clicks BURN DISC, ShowBiz announces if your project volume exceeds the capacity of the target Disc and recommends that you access the menu described above and reduce the bit-rate (and thus, the image quality). It goes on to say that lower bit-rates will produce longer play times with lower quality. The menu has notes suggesting that bitrate settings for DV should be between 5 and 7 Mbits/sec.and between 2 and 5 for VHS tape. The other adjustment lets you select from six birates, 2 Mbits/sec, 3 Mbits/sec, 4 Mbits/sec, 5 Mbits/sec, 6 Mbits/sec, 7 Mbits/sec.and finally AUTOFIT. One allows you to toggle between either VARIABLE BITRATE which is recommend, or CONSTANT BITRATE which seems to be the 'default' setting. In Showbiz preferences, there's a menu called. Hi - thanks - yes, well.whereas it IS true that ShowBiz will put those long video's onto a DVD-R, it only will do that provided the bitrate is reduced, resulting in lower image quality.
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