Problems with capturing VHS material

[Philiboy]

Hello there,

I am trying to capture (digitalise) VHS onto my hard drive. However, I ran into two major problems. Firstly, the screen is black and white and I do not know how to change it into colour. Secondly, when I capture the footage, the video quality is quite bad (Format: AVI, Compression: YUY2, Resolution: 640-480), but every second takes up over 10MB! I was very shocked about this. It would be nice if you could help me with these problems Thank you.

Philip

[aedipuss]

capture with what????

[DB83]

The Black and White issue could well be that you have attempted to capture a NTSC (US) tape - set your capture for NTSC with PAL(UK) equipment - search the forum for topics/posts about Pal60 for more information.

But I will also echo aedipuss's comment. We need more information as to what capture device you are using and capture program you are using. Uncompressed capture will use a lot of disk space. Your disk will probably not be able to keep up and drop a lot of frames hence the result you are seeing.

[themaster1]

I suggest you use this as you:
- seem to not care about restoration
- have little space

If your tape is ntsc played on a pal deck you will have hue shifts (about 9 marks) and matrix convertions aswell (rec601 -> rec709), this will have to be restored properly imo (big avi file, yuy2).

[davexnet]

It's also possible to get a B&W picture if you're using composite into the s-video connection (using an adapter)
and the input is set to s-video in the software, rather than composite.

[Nelson37]

I'm going to borrow something from a post long ago, but are you using your bare hands to throw the magic video particles into the computer?