Capturing from analog VCR, bright scenes overexposed

[dpcole7]

I am using a Pinnacle DV500+ to capture video from my storebought VHS tapes to archive onto DVD because they'll never come out on DVD proper.

When I digitize the video, bright scenes (white such as walls or white sweaters or towels, light gray/smoke, and silver/chrome/bright metallic/too much light on people's faces) look too bright and overexposed.

I have two screengrabs to demonstrate.



I've seen this on multiple capture devices (Pinnacle DV500+, WinTV PVR 250, the video-in on my BFG Gefore ti 4600 video card) so I know it's not a h/w fault.

I have tried changing the brightness and contrast values for the capture device but they don't work. The 'overexposure' is still there but the display otherwise becomes dark or mucky.

Unfortunately, I can't display how the images should look - a slightly darker gray and definitely without that overexposed effect.

I think it might be a gamma issue.

I really don't know as most scenes look all right.

What could be wrong, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[thor of minoc]

cant help you with your problem but i can tell you that your screen shots are from a dr who episode called castrovalva which is due out on DVD later this year.

[divx2vcd]

Hello,

According to your problem, while you capturing first set your capture cards
BRIGHTNESS, CONTRAST, HUE, SHARPNESS, SATURATION.

Match it with your video fottage. As per the images you pasted to board,
while editing you can use video filters for that particular video footage.
To Slove this problem you would go for adjecting brightness control

This not such big problem

Bye, Write back soon.

[dpcole7]

Castrovalva on DVD? Kewl! Where and when this year? America, I hope?

As it is released by Warner Bros without the aid of the UK Restoration team, will they make the same mistake they made during "The Key to Time" series where the audio had a good deal of hiss in the background? (I'm tempted to rip those discs, clean the audio, and make new discs with the audio properly cleaned. That hiss is darn annoying.)

Nice to see Who come out on DVD though.