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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?

UPDATE 1: So, my DVD vhs combo was a total piece of shit and ate my Addams family Vhs tape!!! I found a vhs player that works and looks pretty decent.

I bought a black magic intensity pro capture card (BMDPCB41G1) but I'm struggling to get the driver to recognize the card, I tried win10 but I'm gonna try Ubuntu and an older 4th gen intel motherboard. This is all I have for now, any help would be cool.

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[–] variants@possumpat.io 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A photography shop near me does this, might be worth to compare the price of buying your equipment and figuring it all out or just having someone do it for you

[–] Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But that takes the fun out of it and my grandparents just don't trust anybody with their one copy of a wedding video

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Well, Mcballs, sometimes you've got to trust.