How to digitise? I had two USB video grabbers knocking about, but could find no way to make Win7 recognise them with any driver disks lost (and maybe pre-dating Win7). Repeated load/unload operations eventually freed it up, and I was satisfied the VCR was back in working order and as safe as I could reasonably expect. I took the cover off the VCR to see what was going on, and the tape load/unload mechanism was stuck. I used a sacrificial tape first off, and it got mangled (played, but wouldn't eject once loaded). That meant digging out a VCR from the "archive" and hoping it still worked. The road to this point has not been straightforward. the desired Batch Manager window appeared, with a history of all previous output jobs from VRD and the list of pending batch jobs from last night. Yes, I did want to try registering it (whatever that means), which required an admin privilege password. and there it was, an error pop-up on the desktop saying something about COM not being a registered object and would I like to try registering it now? WTF do error pop-ups not appear over the top of everything else?!! I get similar with RollbackRx - it wants a login, but the login box is hidden away. I normally work with apps full-screen, so I reduced the VRD window and minimised my file manager window.
except disk activity suggested something was happening.
Where? What? How do I recover and run the saved batch processes? Tools > Start Batch Manager again, again nothing. VRD complained there was already a pending batch output with that filename and offered a different output filename. Set up the second cut, saved the project, save video with queue for batch ticked. The VRD documentation was less than enlightening, talking about COM files saved in the project folder – I hadn't saved the job as a project, so I wondered whether that was the problem and went to bed. The Tools > Start Batch Manager menu command seemed to do nothing at all. The "start batch" tool down the right hand side opened something specifically for burning DVDs (or ISOs), and showed nothing of my queued jobs. The bugger then was that, try as I might, I couldn't figure out how to start the queue processing.
Sure enough, a pop-up said the add-to-batch had been successful, and I went through the rest of the chapters queuing them all up. Then I set up my second chapter cut, but instead of outputting immediately I ticked the box to add the job to the batch queue for deferred processing, which would (should) let me set up all the chapter crops for unattended processing overnight. So I set up my first chapter cut and output as a video file, choosing to re-encode from the MPG2 digitisation to H.264/MP4.
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The big plus with VRD is easy frame-accurate editing. VideoReDo (I'm using VideoReDo TVSuite 5 in Win7/64, hereinafter "VRD") provides a Join function for that, you just assemble the input files on the join list, and run.
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The video digitisation produced a series of files structured like a DVD, which would not correspond with the desired chapters, so the first thing was to combine the separate files into one. Having banged my head against several brick walls (and overcome them, with considerable time spent), I'm documenting the process in case it benefits anybody (or indeed me, when I forget what I did or even that I did it). I'm currently on a job to split a couple of digitised VCR tapes into separate video files for each "chapter" (how I arrived at this point is a salutary tale in itself, see footnote).