How do I remove the tracking line at bottom also crispness

[powrslave]

I'm foloowing the G4 guide here and so far I like it.
I am looking for a filter or somethign to strip the bototm tracking line that flickers occasionally only on bottom. I can't get rid of it.
Please don't even start telling me to buy a new vcr .

ALso, can you reccomend somethign that will give me a little more crispness.

I'm using GF4 comp in with virtual vcr, no filters.
I'm following the GF4 guide basically to a T.

Thanks

[johns0]

If you`re going to watch this on tv then you dont need to worry about that since overscan will cover up that area.

[wingnut]

Morning,

You could load it into virtualdubmod then use a null transform and crop to get rid of those tracking lines. You could also then use filters to sharpen and/or adjust other aspects of the video. The only downside is you would have to frameserve / re-encode to get it to an mpeg file.

However, unless you intend to play back on a PC/MAC then I'd agree with johns0 that you shouldn't see these lines on a TV anyway due to overscan.


Cheers

Edz

[BrainStorm69]

With VirtualVCR you can use the cropping filter as you capture, but don't crop, just mask it. There is a checkbox to click if you want to mask rather than crop.

As far as sharpness goes, you could try a sharpness filter when you encode to MPEG-2.

[powrslave]

Thanks for the tips.

I'll search here for info on sharpness filter.
So I should use a sharpness filter plugin while capturing with virt vcr?

Or should I apply a filter when re-encoding.

I would like to burn this to vcd or dvd.

Thnks

[lordsmurf]

I think that line leaks above the bottom overscan. You can always clip/crop the image.

[BrainStorm69]

Thanks for the tips.

I'll search here for info on sharpness filter.
So I should use a sharpness filter plugin while capturing with virt vcr?

Or should I apply a filter when re-encoding.

I would like to burn this to vcd or dvd.

Thnks

I would do the sharpness post capture. The more filters you use while capturing, the more cpu processing is required. If your cpu isn't fast enough, you will screw up your capture.

[sacajaweeda]

If you use AVISynth you could fix it with something like this:

AVISource("whatever_clip.avi")
Crop(0,0,0,-10).AddBorders(0,0,0,10)

Keep cropping & adding a border line by line untill it's gone.

[powrslave]

tHANKS FOR THE IDEAS.


Which program should I use and which plugins (also, where can I find the plugin) when converting.

TMPgenc?

[powrslave]

Has anyone used any of these with great success?

[MSharpen (by Donald Graft)]: This plugin for Avisynth implements an unusual concept in spatial sharpening. Although designed specifically for anime, it also works quite well on normal video. The filter is very effective at sharpening important edges without amplifying noise. [discussion]
[YV12, YUY2, RGB]

[asharp (by Marc FD)]: adaptive sharpening filter, [discussion]. [YV12]

[Unfilter plugin (by Tom Barry)]: This filter softens/sharpens a clip. It implements horizontal and vertical filters designed to (slightly) reverse previous efforts at softening or edge enhancment that are common (but ugly) in DVD mastering. [discussion] [YV12, YUY2]

Also see WarpSharp, Xsharpen, and UnsharpMask in the Misc Plugins section, below. [YV12, YUY2]

[briandugas]

My recent captures were doing the exact same thing. It's on the very extreme bottom border. After I burned it and watched it on TV, it was fine, and I couldn't see it. It looks like your picture has a black border below the actual image. If that black border is part of your capture, then I agree with Lordsmurf, and that may be too much to count on the overscan to fix it.

[powrslave]

Well thanks for your input but the beginning of this particular capture starts as a sort of widescreen footage then goes full scrren.

I'll try and watch it on TV on those parts but watching in media player for example they are visible thruout.