Especially the VHS that came out of consumer cameras and VCRs of the 1980s-1990s.įor my digitized VHS tapes, I created my own preset based on the 4:3 YouTube 480p H.264 preset, but I lowered the target and max bit rates to be closer to what the source is. While a professional facility could certainly do a better job of digitizing, it's not going to produce quality 2K HD content out of VHS. The typical bit rate of the ElGato clips is around 1.7 Mb/sec. I think a safe choice is the YouTube 480p SD preset, because it's the same 4:3 aspect ratio as VHS tapes, with the frame rate based on source (which will be TV standard 29.97 fps if it's coming out of an ElGato Video Capture). But it does a decent job of digitizing VHS tapes, and it does produce a 640 x 480 frame size. I use the same ElGato digitizer as caal66 does, so I should mention that it is not a card, it's a very simple and affordable device, not much more than a cable with VCR-friendly RCA jacks on one end, a USB connector on the other end, and a digitizer chip in the middle.
It seems like that would produce unnecessarily large file sizes, with unnecessary black bars on the sides of what I assume to be 4:3 aspect ratio VHS content. You may also want to see if you can get a professional post-production company to digitize the footage for you at a higher resolution - HD1080 will be preferred.Ĭan I ask why you're recommending that the output be 1920 x 1080? I'm wondering because these are VHS tapes we're talking about, and I can't think of why they need to be in a 2K HD 16:9 format. 640x480 is rather small but that seems to be the upper limit for your digitizing card.
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