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Exporting to VHS tape
Hi folks,
I’ve got a project coming with a slightly unorthodox pipeline: Prores acquisition and edit > print out the locked timeline to VHS > capture the VHS back into Premiere.
The idea is to ‘flavour’ our final edit with VHS characteristics, we may even make two prints of the tape and mess one up a bit so we can go between the two.
I’ve been looking into theCanopus/Grass Valley ADVC-110
analog<->digital two way conversion box which will be useful after the shoot for capturing some of my old analog media.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000GJVE8M/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1ID494ADCTLID&coliid=I2VAUXGSM35X9WCould this be a viable option? anyone had experience with this?
Luke
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This box only inputs and outputs a DV signal. Meaning that it’ll convert VHS or whatever signal you feed to it via the RCA to DV…and then it will also take a DV signal out from the computer and feed it to whatever device connects via the RCA. So if you output to this, your sequence and output settings MUST be DV.
I’ve used this a lot with FCP…timeline had to be a DV timeline in order for this to even work. That’s the signal that feeds it via firewire, DV. and that’s the only format it can read from the edit system.
Might be a lot better to get a BlackMagic Design product, so that you can output directly to VHS, and have the card downconvert an HD signal if that’s what you are playing out.
Shane
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Don’t rely on using the firewire buss to supply power to the unit, be sure to get an AC adapter for it. The one I used to use had a bad habit of blowing the Firewire card in my Mac if it was using power from the Firewire buss.
If you’re in Europe you’ll need to reset some of the DIP switches to handle PAL instead of NTSC.Mark Landman
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there are a lot go filters available that can do this kind of thing
https://www.rowbyte.com/products/tv-distortion-bundle/
that’s just a quick search result…. but i bet you can come up with something in AE to do what you want…
Alex Udell
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[Shane Ross] “Might be a lot better to get a BlackMagic Design product, so that you can output directly to VHS, and have the card downconvert an HD signal if that’s what you are playing out.”
Ok I see, maybe an Intensity Extreme or some such is more the thing I need. By the look of the diagram it has the ability to do what I need it to do. I can be a little less specific as to how I set up the sequence that way too. If I edit in a sequence that matches my source (1080 16:9)how do I tell the blackmagic box to only send the region of that image that a VHS can support (576 4:3)
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