Bob Peterson
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I’m glad you are already getting a benefit from the idea. I bought my Sony camera on eBay many years ago, and it is still my standard technique for capturing VHS. The Sony was my first digital video camera, and it encouraged me to start editing video on the computer. I will be very surprised if you cannot find a suitable camera.
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You are right! My mistake. It is, of course, a miniV camera which is being used to convert VHS to a digital format. Too many acronyms!
BTW, my camera allows me to do the conversion without recording on a miniDV tape. The analog data comes into the camera, is converted to digital, and immediately sent out to the computer. It is called “Pass Thru”.
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Another way is to simply shoot video against a green screen of a hand operating a real stamp. The actual stamp image left behind can be created in Photoshop or a comparable image editor. You could also get the actual sound of the stamp on the video you shoot.
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Do yourself a favor and buy a used Sony VHS camera on Ebay. You will, however, need to do some research. You need a camera that can accept a component video input, and which will produce a DV output. I have a Sony DCR-TRV17 NTSC miniDV camera. The component input on my camera is labelled Audio/Video (ID-2). The adaptor has three RCA cables with one for video, and two for left and right audio. The three cables terminate in a 1/8 inch 4 connector jack. The jack plugs into the camera, and the RCA adapters plug into a VHS deck. The DV output is a fire-wire port which connects to the computer. The VHS deck sends analog video and audio to the camera. The camera digitizes this data, and sends it via fire-wire to the computer where a capture program (Vegas) will capture the digital data, and create a video file. Other alternatives like Canopus were available in the day, but this technique always worked quite well for me.
If you actually obtain such a camera, post back. I will tell you about settings in Vegas which will let the interface work.
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I’m not aware of any technology for importing VHS through a USB adapter. Please explain further the hardware and software that you are using to accomplish this import. I’m not at all surprised that the audio is totally out of sync with the video. The only way I have ever seen to interface VHS to a video file in Windows is via a hardware device, such as a camera, which converts VHS camera output to the digital format expected by the computer. Further, that interface, in my experience, always operates via a firewire interface. I have not seen one that operates via USB. Thus, it is not surprising that Vegas import is confused.
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Since you are showing us a view of two completely different places in the video, it is very difficult to see what it is that is different between Windows Media Player and Vegas. What is the significance of a slight shift of a pixel or so in the video? Is anyone going to notice this “shift” as they view your video? Perhaps viewing the preview as Best/Full will resolve your questions.
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That is right when you group all events together. In Preferences -> Editing, have you unchecked the box for “Cut, copy, and delete grouped events”?
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It looks like, for starters, your computer is too small to handle video processing. It has a dual core processor and a limited memory. Also, you have not given us enough information about your files other than that they are mp4 and avi. What did Mediainfo say?
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When you render your output from Vegas, you must give it a file name. What name are you telling it to use for the rendered output? It sounds like this name has something in it that Windows does not like.
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It sounds like you have ungrouped the video and audio tracks. These are normally grouped together so that they can be operated on together. In SVP, you simply click on, for example, the event in the video track to select that video event. Then shift-click or ctrl-click on the audio track so that both tracks are selected. Now, right-click on either track, select Group, then left-click on Create-New. That should fix it.