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DullGreyGuy said:Don't bother with burning to DVD. Use something like DaVinci Resolve (free version available) to deinterlace and upscale to HD for playback on a modern TV.
Assuming you have a LCD or OLED screen they can only display deinterlaceds and images at their native resolution, its always questionable if the coding in software is better or worse than the deinterlacing and upscaling built into the screen itself.You can get PCIe Firewire cards that will work perfectly in modern computers under Windows 10 (must admit I haven't tried Windows 11 for DV capture, but I suspect it would still work). Some sources say you need to install 'legacy' Firewire drivers, but I've never had to do that - the drivers that come with Windows 10 work perfectly for DV capture.DaVinci Resolve is a professional product, for which a free version is available for home use, and does an excellent job of deinterlacing and upscaling.While I would agree it's preferable to keep the material in its original interlaced format for archiving, I have found some modern TVs have problems playing interlaced video directly, hence the suggestion to deinterlace in software. My Samsung TV, for example, throws a complete wobbly if you try to play an interlaced MP4 file (although the same file plays perfectly on a computer).0 -
Fingerbobs said:DullGreyGuy said:Don't bother with burning to DVD. Use something like DaVinci Resolve (free version available) to deinterlace and upscale to HD for playback on a modern TV.
Assuming you have a LCD or OLED screen they can only display deinterlaceds and images at their native resolution, its always questionable if the coding in software is better or worse than the deinterlacing and upscaling built into the screen itself.DaVinci Resolve is a professional product, for which a free version is available for home use, and does an excellent job of deinterlacing and upscaling.
I think the previous issues were that plasma TVs/ earlier LCD etc sometimes weren't exactly HD or 4K etc and hence if you upscaled to a standard resolution the TV was rescaling for a second time to its native resolution and double processing is always asking for trouble.
You get a lot less talk of video scalers on AVForums etc these days!0 -
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