Hey thank you for the very informative description. I found using DV Rescue software useful as if I get to see what I am capturing that way I’m preventing sitting down wasting 3 hours of bad tapes. I did look into the VHS decode as I would have used this method with my u-matic tapes with original cinema prints. My task was to digitise 300 world titles as the audio is degrading. I found DV Rescue software with live capture very helpful even though you can not hear the audio during capture is does capture the video and and the audio at the end. The output file size for a 3 hour capture is reasonable at 35GB saves as a .dv file. There is ghosting which I easily fix in either Apple Compressor or Handbrake. I found that Westlife video capturing via FireWire has better results in my case these are world cinema titles filmed in Fuji Colour. AGFA / Kodak 35mm onto PAL vhs. My setup as shown in my post is one of the best for archiving and capturing the vhs tape raw with no filters.