Analog Video Capture Comparison (Intensity Pro 4K vs Elgato vs ClearClick and more)

This is a great channel. Thanks so much for making these videos. I feel better about purchasing something for converting game footage

Is there a good TBC out there that can handle weak VHS signals and can capture in 10 bits ?

Wth? "Brittish". "Dollars". Swedish singing. I'm confused. I have the non-4K version of Intensity Pro for VHS SD capture, but it's mated with an external TBC. I'm quite pleased with it.

I wonder - is there a way of getting an analogue video output from OBS via the Intensity Pro 4K? I see there's a 'Decklink Output' under 'Tools' in OBS but haven't managed to get it working. Would love to not have to touch Media Express at all honestly.

Someone forgot to say whether the cassettes were recorded in PAL or NTSC. For me, EVERYTHING is electronic waste. Elgato didn't really want to admit to me that the hardware can only output NTSC. Converting back to PAL is of no use at all. ClearClick and RetroTink are converters to HD and therefore not PAL video grabbers. Puseiko is not only mono, but also has cross color interference because the S-Video input is mixed to CVBS. However, I tested the garbage in a light blue metallic + white housing. OBS Studio cannot interlaced video and therefore cannot use PAL. I (TV engineer) couldn't get Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle and PRO to work. My request as to whether the 4k version has a usable TBC was answered in the negative. My cheap HDD passed the hard drive test with at least 720 lines (middle definition). The Black Magic "expert"🤣from England who is responsible for Europe wanted to convince me that it was my hard drive that caused the sound to be about 30 seconds off after 60 minutes if you switched off stop at dropped frames. With stop at dropped frames on, it takes less than 3 minutes until the capture is aborted. Test devices: Panasonic NV-HS900EG + Panasonic DMR-E55 EG as TBC (YUV out). I think that the electronic waste will no longer be sold because it simply does not match the frame rate of the recorder (24,998 Hz-25,002 Hz). Sorry, Google Translate🙄

This video was fucking spectacular. I'll have a VHS capture video soon and I THINK I've found a decent USB solution for around $50, but I need one or two more livestreams to test and confirm. And I'm totally using (and crediting!) the "Reasonably British method of using a magnet to screw up a tape badly enough to cause time base errors". Any tips on how to get that just right?

Aaaaarrrrgh! You said ALUMINUM! I almost choked on my rich tea biscuit. And there you are, standing in front of our beloved flag. Shame on you, shame on you Sir!

this video was impeccable and most informative thankyou

Analog Video is just a bunch of wibbly wobbly, timey whimey....stuff..

This was such a fun video. ABSOLUTELY WELL DONE!

Hilarious! 😂
Great job 👍😉

WTH?? How do you only have 296 subscribers as of 12/6/2023??? You, sir, are about to blow up!! OH wait, I'm not supposed to subscribe you said... Ahh, I see! You really have millions of "subscribers". You are smart, you Reasonably British bastard!

Today everything is FM RF capture with affordable CX Cards and the DomesDayDuplicator, then software defined decoding of the RF captures with VHS-Decode its much more effecive for recorded formats as its time base correction and dropout correction beats out any hardware solution, pretty much its RF Capture or GV2-USB/SDI chains today for baseband CVBS/S-Video capture no point going for less or paying for more.

Time base corrector chips - I believe they have basically stopped being made, except for some very poor quality ones. This is ***** annoying

I used to capture with a K*World converter similar to the Elgato, using VideoGlide software. It was ok, but not great. Then at some point it stopped working after system upgrades (Mac). Last year I got a used Toshiba combo DVD/VHS player with dubbing and HDMI out for about $100. It takes composite and S-Video inputs but not component. I capture the HDMI output to the Mac using an Adafruit HDMI-USB adapter and QuickTime Player. The results are better than the K*World, but it stretches the picture from 4:3 to 16:9 and I don't know of any way around that. The deinterlacing is good, but I haven't checked for cropping of overscan. Resolution defaults to 720x480p. 720p, 1080i and 1080p are selectable but I don't use those (USB video bogs down).

Thank you for the video! What soft did you use to capture the analog video?

Aloominum? That is not how the British pronounce Aluminium. Are you really British? Other than that, excellent video. Very thorough testing and highly entertaining. Great side by side comparisons for audio and video. Really helpful .

Ice Cap made me subscribe. This was thoroughly entertaining, informative, brilliantly edited and genuinely hilarious. (Top) Hats off, sir.

If the video is fine, I'm fine with the audio being clipped, on the retrotink.
I have a crt with only left audio and video.

You are Excellent 👌 . Thank you

the newest firmware update of the Retrotink 5x pro also provides a TBC, might be worth looking at

I require some DPS Personal TBC IV if you have any spare good sir. My new favorite channel.

Review the Micomsoft X-Capture 1. I'd like to see your take on it. Also try the original video keeper 2 software.

This is likely a dumb question, but...do you have any insight as to how the various video devices and connections discussed in this video would compare with simply connecting a VCR to a Canon MiniDV camcorder using S-Video and then connecting the camcorder to a PC using Firewire and then capturing the video using Premiere Studio as an AVI file? This is what I have been doing for several years and am getting what I believe are reasonable results. More specifically, my activity to date has been to capture 8mm and Hi8mm video and MiniDV, then run the capture through Topaz Video AI for deinterlacing and upscaling, and then edit using Filmora. I'm happy with what I'm getting but am in the process of checking if there is a better way. Your video is great and looking forward to the next.

The RetroTINK-2X would be great if it handled time-base errors. Paired with a decent external TBC (AVT-8710) it works well.

Black Magic never made a decent SD analog capture card. Their "professional" products are still being outperformed by capture solutions predating their existence! Its old, but the ATI All-in-Wonder series with the Rage Theater chip still perform well vs. the new stuff. I have a fancy frame grabber here (Epiphan DVI2PCIe) that has a TI TVP5150 for its SD video capture that I have yet to try since I need to make a breakout cable for it. That chip does a decent job in other applications, so I'm curious how it performs on this card.

Subscribed because I relate to your anger directed to blackmagic

This was bizar-rely good. Tempted to subscribe but don’t want to cause an upset.

Hilarious video -- but with one very glaring incorrect assertion: 640x480 should not crop the video, but merely change the storage aspect ratio (SAR). Not the display aspect ratio (DAR). So 720x480 should be the same image as 640x480, just stretched at 3:2 from 4:3 (1:1) respectively. Additionally 720x486 does not contain more useful data than 720x480 (the 6 lines are generally full of noise or black), nor is 720x486 a standard resolution (thus will be rejected by video software like Premiere, without harming the source on import). Otherwise, much of the video (not all) is quite accurate: lousy cards, fake "TBCs" being claimed, video game cards not for videotapes. 🙂

The Lindsey Graham of Black Magic has no interest in Analog video, Maybe they've changed things quite a bit recently, But for digital ingest, such as SDI, they are the best. I'm using one for my capture needs and for my YT channel.

Now THIS, THIS right here...this how tutorials + tests should be. Spectrum of emotions on lock.

Make more vids and dont stop ever

Excellent video , fantastic commentary. Unfortunately the decent video capture cards as mostly obsolete making way for these pesky HDMI ones. Not ideal , I used the Miglia TV Max which has a frame buffer no jumpy video from capture. Also has SVHS. I kept a few units.. unfortunately if they break one is stuck getting the other new generation ... I'm also Mac based. Only solution currently for TBC Is using a DVD- Recorder as a passthrough that acts as a stabiliser which prevents the jumping... try that problem solved. Im using BlackMagic H.264 Pro Recorder. No discontinued too. lovely stuff .

Great video! What do you think about the GV-USB2?

That comparison segment was reasonably Swedish.

Thanks!

High quality content!