Whitewash picture problems when capturing

[funkydude74]

Hi everyone.

I'm having a major problem when capturing video. What happens is that when there is bright colours in the picture eg spotlights and bright light blue sky the bright colours whitewash the picture which ruins the picture. Also another example is when a spotlight shines on a person's face, the highlights whitewash the person's face .

Anyhow I'll tell you's the details of my video card and the software I use. The card is a Nvidia 64Mb GeForce4 Ti 4200 and the software I use to capture is Ulead VideoStudio 6 SE.

Anyhow when using Ulead and in capture mode and go to Options, Capture Properties, Video Capture Filter properties and finally Video Proc Amp there are 8 adjustments:
Brightness
Contrast
Hue
Saturation
Sharpness
Gamma
White Balance
Backlight Comp

Now here's where I get to the problem, the Sharpness, Gamma, White Balance and Backlight Comp are disabled which I CANNOT adjust them and I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW TO ENABLE THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I may NEED to adjust these to get rid of the whitewash problems.

Anyhow I was wondering if anyone could help me to solve these problems please as I really need to get the picture looking good as I've got to copy some wedding videos to VCD for a friend and I want to do a good job of it. Also I want to record from my old saticon cameras and when I try to capture outdoor scenes on a bright day whitewash really bad. I would most appreciate it if this problem can be solved.

Thanks

Troy

[kalyan]

what u r are facing is called the oversaturation of white and bright colours by the capture chip present in geforce cards.

i use ASUS geforce 3 ti200 deluxe.

this solved 99% of my problems.


i now capture at 760x480 @ 29fps NTSC 6400kbps

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=3c...s.corecomm.net

however be sure to read all the instructions,