Basic VHS restauration - a question

[FrankRoberts]

Hi guys,

im trying to digitalize the old family VHS tapes using the Ion VRC2PC tool. Despite the negative comment on this forum, I am quite happy with it; for an amateur like me, it does the job fine. I do not get macrovision errors and because the quality of the source tapes is relatively good for 1985-1990 material (Maxell Epitaxial Video Casette HGX Gold). The material looks quite nice overall, yet I have however 2 problems:

1. The deinterlacing/interlacing problem (i dont know how to call this). I am quite new to this and don't know what to do with it. Should I fix this using some kind of tool, or is it better to keep it in original quality? I can't tell using the information on the forum here.

2. The source VHS tapes contain multiple scenes on one tape; for example Tape A contains the years 1984-1986. As a result, some scenes do look quite good, but others have too much light or are too dark, or do not have a good color balance (the famous in-house recording). I am wondering about what to do:
a. keep the complete tape in a 8gb mpg file and use a bunch of filters on the video as a hole, or
b. cut the file into different scenes and use customized filters per scene. This will be much more time consuming, ofcourse.

Thanks for helping me out!

[themaster1]

1) Don't fix the interlaced lines unless you wanna make adivx or upload to youtube for instance
2) To enhance dark regions (etc..) there is a vdub filter called color mil, you should try that
3) Use virtualdub to fix the scenes that need to.
4) Record in avi / huffyuv codec for such a restoration project