#Jvc pro clip manager new version full#
#Jvc pro clip manager new version software#

You have a few other good ones too, like Pioneer, as well as mid-ground units from Toshiba and Sony. All my tests and research have shown LSI Logic chipsets with VBR as being the highest quality MPEG encoders on the market right now, while Panasonic and Philips in-house chips represent the bottom of the barrel with poor encoders. I've tested about 20-25 units in the past, and once you start to pick apart the guts of a machine, you can see trends in things like chipsets, VBR/CBR/CVBR, etc. Videos are fine, but the clip needs to be long enough, and it needs to be burned onto a DVD and played on a tv, not viewed on a progressive computer monitor. Stills are worthless, as you can cherry pick still images. A VHS tape still outputs a VHS quality signal, although you can definitely purify it with better equipment (like that JVC 7800).Ī forum like this will never allow for a true side-by-side test. And I mean S-VHS tapes, not an S-VHS player, not the same thing.

#Jvc pro clip manager new version full#

And unless you're using DV/S-VHS/laserdiscas the source, your VHS/tv/whatnot is going to look the same at either Half D1 or Full D1. The LSI Logic chipsets DO handle it well, so you'll find JVC, LG, etc as having a very attractive 3-hour mode (FR180 on the JVC).ģ52x480 with 3 hours of video is in the optimal range. Herein lies another problem of a Panasonic, among others, is that they cannot do a medium resolution very well. You can do 3 hours with 352x480, assuming the encoder can do well at that resolution. If you want 100% perfect noise-free video, you'll need to put no more than 1 hour on a disc in 720x480.

#Jvc pro clip manager new version software#

Lower than that, you compress, and the compression quality depends on the hardware or software encoder and the settings. The optimal bitrate for 720x480 is closer to 7.0-8.0 and VBR with a max in the 9000s. That's enough to make most users smile.ħ20x480, 5.1Mb/s CVBR is going to not be super hot. You will always end up with a nicer DVD than the video you fed into it. They are strong enough to remove problems, but not so strong that they deteriorate the source either. The JVC suppresses block noise, it maintains the color quality from the source, and it has the ability to remove chroma artifacts from VHS or other analog sources, when errors are present. Since most people use these to record off tv, a medium resolution source, they'll never notice. It probably has the strongest anti-noise filters that exist out there, although this can sometime blur high res video.

That alone will always prevent it from being a better machine, though it's still quite nice.

LiteOn has limitations because it uses CVBR instead of VBR. Many expect blocks/noise in digital video and think it's normal, others think it's great that their video is darker and has 'more color' because of it. Most people don't realize Panasonic has problems because they only use SP mode and they don't understand what quality video is supposed to look like.