VHS Capture and Conversion

[rbrown3rd]

I am converting some old VHS Tape clips to SVCD, editing and adding background music in the process.

I have done the following:

1. Captured with Vdub using YUY2 at 480 x 480
2. Filtered with Vdub to remove noise and smooth.
3. Opened in Video Factory, removed bad sections, added music.
4. Rendering to MPEG2 with VF with settings for SVCD.

I plan on burning the SVCD with Nero.

Am I on the right track here? I have doubts, before burning the SVCD, about the 480 x 480 capture with Vdub and then rendering to MPeg2 with Video Factory.

[rbrown3rd]

Just burned a test and the quality is as good as I think I can get from an old VHS tape but the format appears to be letterboxed vertically if you know what I mean. I have always captured in 480 x 480 resolution and then used Nero to burn the SVCD which ended up with the correct proportions on my TV. I think that introducing Video Factory into the process has done something to kill that.

[afreitas]

Did you consider using 352x480 for your SVCDs? If you plan to transfer your videos to DVD this would be the right choise and maybe it will solve your problem about display format.

[rbrown3rd]

Thanks. I'll give that a try. I thought I was limited to 480x480 for SVCD. I just took the 480 x 480 files I captured with Vdub and burned an SVCD with Nero. Played them on my TV and the proportions were correct. It appears that taking them into Video Factory for special effects and editing and then rendering to MPEG2 there causes the problem.

Do you think that the 352 x 480 format would help that? I am beginning to think that it is the MainConcept MPEG-2 encoder in Video Factory.