I've been spending the last few months recoridng my families old VHS tapes to Digital using an IOData usb capture card ( which seems pretty reccomended )
I've been recording with VirtualDub, and sometimes, the audio in the recording gets super slowed down, deep sounding ( think tv sitcom stoner voice ) then is speeds up and goes into high pitched fast audio ( think chipmunks )
I got a tape, and connected the VCR to my Early 2000's Sony Handicam, and played the tape and I didn't get any audio issues. I don't know if my audio issues are due to the capture card, or using VirtualDub software. ( but some tapes are fine, others have very distorted audio )
So my questions are
Should I just use the Sony Handicam as my capture card instead of the IOData? If so, whats the best software recording method to record from the handicam to PC?
( My current PC doesn't have a firewire port, but I could try to attempt to buy a PCI-E card ( though its not that easy as I'm running a Windows VM on a server and nothing is as simple as plug and play ), otherwise, I do have a computer running windows 7 that does have a working firewire port )