>>4333352I thought about that actually. They make these tiny capture screens for HD cameras that you can mount and its basically a screen with an HDD attached to it so you can live capture any video being fed into it.
The VHS cameras I have allow for direct composite video and audio out, HOWEVER these HD screens cannot capture the native resolution of the camcorder which I believe is 320x240interlaced. I tried using one of those video game upscalers (retrotink) which can take a 240i signal and upscale it to 480i. still no luck. This would be the ultimate portable method otherwise
The other option which is more cumbersome is taking a laptop with you and just running the camcorder video right into the USB capture card to the laptop. I've done this with success, however now you will have to go around with a camera and laptop tied into each other while youre shooting which can be awkward in public.
When youre doing it at home (ie tripod, or just shooing with some friend for fun) its a great solution. just have a 6-12' usb cable so you can move around the room and leave the laptop (hell or a desktop at that point) and just shoot until youre done.
You're still left with a massive AVI file that will need to be deinterlaced and shrunken down to a portable size, but hey, you dont need a Tape or a VCR anymore.
