My grandparents are downsizing there collections of turds and gold and they want their homemade movies archived. I was thinking of a component capture card with obs. What would be a good capture card or a better way to archive?

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    1 year ago

    UGREEN 4K HDMI Video Capture Card HDMI to USB 2.0 Game Capture Card HDMI to USB C Audio Capture Adapter Full HD 1080P Capture Video Audio Recording for Editing Video, Games, Streaming, Teaching https://a.co/d/6jgpWMe

    Im currently using OBS and this for a friend. May not be the best way, but it works

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      I’ve used exactly this device and a (believe it or not) BNIB VHS player the MIL had stashed at the back of the closet, to digitize some old family videos. Worked very well, once I figured out how to take due care with the cabling, so as not to introduce pops or crackles into the audio.

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        Nah, with a vcr get hdmi out, either upscale or a fancy vcr with hdmi, plug it into the capture card. Then just use the capture card as a media source in obs and record.

        The big pain is having to be around for the end of ths video (if you dont want to have to trim the video file that is)