Cleaning up footage with ATI software

[saturndude]

Hello,

I can use ATI's "Video Soap" as I am capturing to sharpen, perform de-noising, etc. But can I get ATI's software to do this to a stand-alone MPEG after the capture?

If I end up playing my tapes over and over with different "video soap" each time, I'm going to wear out my tapes. If I want to just capture once, and try different clean-up filters on a stand-alone MPEG file (sharpen, change color balance, etc.) I have to spend more money (TMPGEnc, Premiere Elements, UltraEdit from MediaChance). (Isn't the trial version of TMPGenc limited to 30-minute clilps? Breaking up and re-joining footage seems like a lot of work.)

Any helpful hints so I don't wear out my tapes getting the settings just right? I thank you in advance.

[Nelson37]

SFAIK there is no way to do this.

You could copy the MPG to DVD and cap it again, there would be loss from the repeated MPG compression. For testing purposes, this might work, or at least give you an original which would not "wear out".

I know that I have captured the S-Video output from an AIW to the S-Video input, by routing it thru a VCR, but have not tried this with a playing video, only for capturing the Windows screen.