cleaning the VHS into DVD

[huntr]

I have Panasonic DVD recorder with hard drive (E-80) and have transferred most of the football games into DVD but I have problem with few VHS tapes. The quality is good but the screen is grainy so I am wondering if I transfer to DVD-ram and edit through computer using TMPGEnc DVD Author to improve the quality and to erase the "grainy screen"? Have someone gotten any success with it. I don't have TMPGEnc DVD Author but if you think it will improve, I can try their free trial.

What do you think?

Thanks!

[chaseru]

What you're seeing is likely video noise on the VHS tapes. Generally, you need to clean up the video noise prior to the video being encoded to MPEG2. The Panasonic is going to encode the video whether it puts it on a DVD-RAM or DVD-R.

You should consider capturing those bad VHS tapes directly to you're computer and run the video through some noise filters in VirtualDub or use the noise reduction in the TMPGEnc Encoder (not author).

[FulciLives]

I have Panasonic DVD recorder with hard drive (E-80) and have transferred most of the football games into DVD but I have problem with few VHS tapes. The quality is good but the screen is grainy so I am wondering if I transfer to DVD-ram and edit through computer using TMPGEnc DVD Author to improve the quality and to erase the "grainy screen"? Have someone gotten any success with it. I don't have TMPGEnc DVD Author but if you think it will improve, I can try their free trial.

What do you think?

Thanks!

You can expect less than steller quality if you use anything below the 2 hour SP recording mode.

So ... is that what you are doing OR do you still have this "grainy" problem even at SP or XP speed?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman