Best way to capture Analog composite video from camcorder?

[ellandry]

I have an analog camcorder and Im capturing using my Studio AV/DV card. Because it is composite of course the video seems noisy and I really want to up the look of the video before making dvd-r's of the family videos. Can you guys suggest any way that I can improve the quality of my captured analog video? Unfortunatly my video camera does not have an s-video out just composite.

I picked up some gold tipped decent (thicker than normal) cables also.

[FulciLives]

I have an analog camcorder and Im capturing using my Studio AV/DV card. Because it is composite of course the video seems noisy and I really want to up the look of the video before making dvd-r's of the family videos. Can you guys suggest any way that I can improve the quality of my captured analog video? Unfortunatly my video camera does not have an s-video out just composite.

I picked up some gold tipped decent (thicker than normal) cables also.

I assume you are capturing to DV AVI and then encoding to MPEG-2 using a software encoder such as CCE or TMPGEnc.

If so then you can use various "filters" to clean up the video noise. There are filters for VirtualDub as well as for AviSynth. My favorite noise filter is Convolution3D which is an AviSynth noise filter.

There are also filters that can help you to adjust the brightness/contrast and color saturation etc.

Check out the official websites of VirtualDub and AviSynth on links to filters you can use.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[ellandry]

well I have tried to use the various filters in virtualdub but the settings needed are a mystery to me. Can anyone give me some pointers? Thx