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Originally Posted by turingvdo
To be honest, I've invested a small fortune in my collection already and am in the process of transferring everything to digital format, whether pictures, VHS or DVDs.
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As you rip VHS, the same advice applies-- there's maximum size beyond which additional data gets you nothing. The mathematical theory behind this comes from the famous mathematician/engineer Claude Shannon . . . but suffice to say if you're ripping VHS to 4 gigabyte files, that's probably about 3.2 gigabytes too many.
Depends which compression tool you use, but most will automatically recognize that amount of data and compress efficiently -- handbrake does a particularly good job of this in my experience.
One piece of advice with VHS ripping-- if you can find a "pro" deck with time base correction (or an external time base correction module, something like AV Toolbox AVT-8710) -- that will significantly improve your rips. Older tapes will have stretched a bit, and that puts them slightly out of sync, yielding characteristic noise and distortion on old VHS tapes.
Time Base Correction can fix these errors, which are particularly bad with NTSC. But the consumer decks don’t do it, and this is a big contributor to poor quality in VHS rips which _can_ be fixed, with the right equipment and settings at the time you do the scan.