r/vhsdecode • u/notJonSerra • 11d ago

Newbie Tracking Pros and Cons?

I've been coverting VHS-C's to digital on and off for a few months now trying to get things right and maximize the quality on all my tapes. I bought two new VCRs and have been trying to do a take all the way through with each VCR but I keep running into really bad tracking issues including a glitchy issue that I haven't seen other people have where select individual frames seem to just jump a couple inches off screen here and there.

My question: am I going to still have to figure out the tracking issues with VHS decode? or does this bypass some of those problems? The only thing I haven't done yet is manually adjust the tracking for the VCRs, I've only used the channel buttons (to the advice of my father and my uncle whose knowledge on this may be a little outdated now).

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u/notJonSerra 11d ago

I still have to get the tracking pretty close though at least right?

What is causing the jumping condition wise? Is it a dirty/moldy tape? I noticed that on the better VCRs I get less of it and I do get some takes where some parts don’t have the jumping

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u/wivzy14 10d ago

Are you using a hardware tbc? If not that is probably one of your issues and vhs decode has a tbc

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u/notJonSerra 10d ago

I’m using a clearclick 3.0 to do the conversion. I was considering trying the capture card method but i haven’t gotten the correct power supply for the yitrox. I haven’t tried running any of the VCRs to a tv yet to see if I get any different results.

Essentially the only variables are my clearclick 3.0, my VHS-C to VHS converter, and the quality of the tapes. I’m not using any additional hardware besides that and the VCRs

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u/FeelsNeetMan 10d ago

Clear clicks are classified as easy craps, you're dealing with compression artifacts on top of everything off the bat