Clean up / Square Up Hi8 captured via DV Passthrough

[jmone]

I can capture my old Hi8 tapes into Video Studio 6 using the pass through feature on my DV Camcorder. Works great BUT while the image on the two Camcorder displays looks fine, the images captured have both:
* a rough/ragged right edge; and
* the bottom (say) dozen lines are distorted

The result is identical regardless of using Composite or S-Video between the camcorders. Also the same if I record to the DV tape first then capture. I want to clean up both the right / bottom boarder before burning to DVD. Any advise on either the following (or other ideas) greatly welcomed!:
* fixing the "sync" on the bottom (if that is what is causing it);
* cropping the right and bottom in Video Studio somehow.....

Thanks
Nathan

[tjdmobile]

If it were me, I would use TMPGenc to render to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2, and use the crop filter to easily accomplish this. This way, when you render the video, you would get small black areas on top and bottom (if you set the arrange to center, full screen. I do this myself whenever my input video has noise near the "overscan" areas.

Besides, I feel the rendering of video studio is far lower in quality than that of TMPGenc. Only problems I could imagine would be when you do transitions, and Video Studio has to render the frames affected by that transition.

[jmone]

Thanks tjdmobile,
It was certainly "overscan noise" that does not appear when played on the TV. The suggestion of using TMPGenc also worked well but I'm now not sure I need to clean up the bottom/right edge as it does not appear when played!
Nathan

[tjdmobile]

Good that it isn't in the visible area!

Even in overscan areas, any noise on the video robs your entire image of bandwidth. Cropping allows less of the bitrate to be used to replicate the "snow".

A good sample of this - use a tv-tuner card to record channel 3 (or whatever chanel doesn't have a station) in any VBR mode. If the picture is "snow" the capture will use the maximum bandwidth set to try and give all this extra "action" on the screen adequate bandwidth. When you are in CBR mode, not as big of a deal, but wouldn't it be better to be rid of it in the first place?

Just an opinion, but like so many others, I believe the final outcome should be the highest quality possible for the bitrate I am using...

TJD