I recently bought a SVHS vcr for the purpose of converting old tapes. It has a built in TBC (yes I realize not as good as a real TBC) which helped a lot with the source quality. These are very crappy 20 year old EP recordings. I did a couple of captures and was pleased with the results. However, a couple of days later I decided to capture again with slightly different settings, and found that while it was playing the tapes, the top of the screen began to flicker wildly. When i turned off the TBC it stopped, but the quality of the rest of the picture was noticeably degraded. It does this every time now, when it didn't do this at all the first time I tried it. Could the new vcr have somehow affected the tape?
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wild quess but could you have changed the tracking setting on the player? Check the book and see how to set/check it, if an auto setting and if manually adjustable try playing with that.
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Sounds like you have a JVC. They have all kinds of different picture settings in the menu. Stuff like Active Calibration etc.
Try playing around with those settings. I found that putting the picture on EDIT as opposed to AUTO (the default) worked better for making copies be it to another VCR or to capture.
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fulci,
quite right a jvc vcr. yes i've found the various settings. so you've found edit to work best for the source tape? i found the manual to be a little confusing, but left it on auto because after testing couldn't decide what was best. i will test "edit" as the play setting. thanks for the input, i'll let you know if it gets better. I assume for crappy source tapes that using the tbc is better than using the "video stabilization" setting? -
Originally Posted by qlizard
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The DNR-based TBC in a JVC does not like high-compounded errors. You'll need to turn it off, use the STABILIZER, and then use other means to repair (hardware TBC and/or software).
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the tbc/dnr is very nice on the jvc...however I found on my (7 yr old vhsc EP) tapes sometimes the stabilization was needed...this is when tape plays very nice but then starts jumping/jittering up and down for a bit then continues nice...
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Dammit man, how did I know this thread would result in me buying yet another $200 component? my wife is going to kill me...
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Originally Posted by lordsmurf
I will probably experiment some more to get a better feel for which problems it can help me w/ .. (and also awaiting when you put up your page on video restoration!)
Originally Posted by qlizard"As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal - keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole." -
Thanks everyone for the info. I'm not sure how much more I can absorb, as I learn more and more from this site every day. but my project is now proceeding, thanks mainly to this site and the helpful people on it.
Lordsmurf and fulcilives, your recommendations for my svhs purchase had the single most influence on my video capture quality.
if you don't mind, what do you mean by "high-compounded" errors? I did a search and find some very entertaining threads but didn't really explain what they were.
thanks again.
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