[itsrare]

Thats a nice card, I played around with various capture cards for ages around a year in fact but in the end for simple ease of use and transfer times taken due to the amount of material I have to do which is over 7000 hours of music I opted for Panasonic DVD recorders.
They have the FR Flexible record speed, which is like VBR on PC capture
So for example if I have a I have 72 minute concert, I could set the FR time to record for 72 or 73 min, though I tend to let it run for 3 minutes more for reasons you see in a moment.
Burn to disk at FR, finalise as normal on the Panasonic, place disc in your PC rip to hard drive with DVD decrypter, then author with Tmpgenc and burn off two copies with Nero one for viewing or copying and one I seal never to use incase the first one gets damaged.
I set the FR to run a few minutes over so that I have space on the disc for the computer made menu and thus I am not playing around with compression rates again on the PC.
It may not be the best way in the world for capture but its fast, on a day where I have little to do I could capture and author up to four full disks a day, though I got bored and have taken a break from transfers and trades for the moment.
People may knock the use of standalones which I can understand but a few weeks ago I had a call from from a person in the USA at one of the biggest record companies there is (no name dropping) I had already supplied them material in the past so know they are genuine, this time they wanted me to supply old unreleased footage for a second volume of a DVD release by a big rock band, they asked how I captured material from tape, I told them Panasonics only using XP or FR and high spec cables SVHS VCRS or top grade Sony Beta recorders, they said that for speed that's what they did though in times when it was not a rush job they used Macs which I would have guessed anyway.
The most annoying thing about material captured to standalones is the people who have no idea what they are doing and capture a show running for less than 60 minutes in SP 120 min mode or higher, if I could meet them I would slap them for being so dumb

Originally Posted by AmazingPudding

I am interested in transfering many vhs masters to DVD to create torrents. I am curious if it is acceptable to do this with an Osprey 210 Enhanced Audio/Video Capture card or do I need to use a stand alone to preserve the integrity. I am really in the dark about many video requirements. Please Help
Blake S.