B & W capture or conversion?

[hiptune]

Hello experts,

I have a minor problem and I know there must be an easy solution.

I am capturing some laser discs that are black and white films. The resulting avis do have a slight greenish tint to them. What I have been doing is during encoding, in Procoder I turn down the color saturation in advanced filters, all the way down. This results in a fairly good B & W picture with very little if any color left in final picture.

But there must be a more professional approach. A way to capture only in B & W, and have no green entering the scene at all. I have some VHS tapes from cable I plan to do next. And since this stuff I am doing is not out in any format anymore, I may as well try to do them right.

I capture through an ADVC - 500 with Vegas 5, encode with Procoder at 8200kbs for 69 min. and under, and author with tmpgenc or DVD-A.

Plenty of gear here!

Thanks,
Jeff

[spectroelectro]

Actually that's the method I use. Just zero out the chroma in either TMPGenc or Procoder. Alternatively, you could always capture in color to Type 2 DV or Huffyuv and then run the Adobe Premiere "convert to B&W" function. But I've A/B'd the results and they look no better than zeroing out the chroma in the mpeg-2 encoder, and takes much much longer...since of course the entire video has to be rewritten to HD in DV or huffyuv format.

[hiptune]

Thanks Spectro,

Glad I am on the right track. I don't like the idea of re-rendering with a filter video even if with no loss (yeah right).

So capture or encoding would be better point in time to remove any green goop.

And as I said, I don't see any color left after my filter encoded mpeg comes off the assembly line.