Well I have a new problem (sorta). None of the actual softwares I'm using are capturing fully the way I want. Let me elaborate. Of the devices I have at present the WinTV HVR 850 or the 950q is what I'd like to use but none of the programs I've been able to test them with don't seem to capture properly. I've tested this on WinTV 8, PowerDirector, and Pinnacle Studios (2008 version). A couple other programs I tried did not pick up the device. WinTV 8 the capture was out of sync by about 4 frames and the software only seems to pick up the 850 device, PowerDirector still gives me those white lines I had brought up a while back, and Pinnacle keeps telling me there's an invalid device and to check my cables when I set it to MPEG and a jittery type video if I set it to AVI.
I was successful in capturing with a Gigaware capture device using the '08 Pinnacle Studios but the audio was loud and would not change even after I went into devices to adjust it and the beginning was slightly out of sync. A Corel VideoStudio program I purchased picked up the Gigaware devices signal but not the WinTV. I'm not sure the Corel program would have been the route I would have wanted to go with since a test video I captured with that program using the Gigaware USB gave me that overlap effect i've been trying to avoid (
https://fanrestore.com/thread-724.html).
So anyways my question is in regards to any softwares, not devices, for video capturing you guys recommend. No VirtualDub please. It would not pick up the WinTV device when I tried it and also I had tried it once a few months back with another device and it had the overlap effect. I also don't want the videos to be re-encoded so basically any free software is likely not gonna do me any good. I even tried some of the other WinTV discs I have and from the looks they would not pick up my VCR unless the software was registered which their site won't even let me do. Any suggestions??
If not this will likely be my route. Capture with the 850 using WinTV 8, place the exported video in Corel VideoStudio and sync the audio properly, render that as an mpeg, then burn to DVD with DVD Architect. However, rendering the video will likely give a slight quality loss and I want to retain as much of the original exported videos quality as I can. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it.