System Callibration

[dezine]

What's are some ways that people find are the best way to calibrate your system for video use.

Also I just received a "10.5" Sharp LC-10A3U-B LCD TV external preview use for video. It works great but, I also am curious how people might be calibrating their external TV's to make sure the color levels are correctly shown.

Sorry about all of the questions of late, but I am trying to get myself up to maximize what I do have to produce video with what I do have.

Sony Vaio RX640 Design Studio
1.6Ghz P4 Processor
552 DDR Ram (expandable to 1GB)
60GB 7200 HD, 120GB external Firewire HD
64mb GeForceTi Video Card
Soundmax integrated sound card
Firewire (6 pin 4 pin)
Canopus ADVC100
USB
Dual DVD drives Pioneer DVR-104,Pioneer DVD-117R

Thanks again,
Dezine (Michael)

[snowman7071]

I'm interested in this info as well. I'm fairly new to vhs capturing and after two months am still in the audio and video tuning stage. Audio tuning is easy enough but video tuning seems like a tedious process. The end goal obviously is to match (as close as possible) the brightness, colour, etc.. ) of the dvd copy to the original vhs. So far I've started by calibrating the gamma on the display and overlay in the video card settings and the brightness, contrast, and saturation (taken from Luke's Video Guide) on the capturing (VDub) settings. I know it's just a matter of trial and error but any hints to the proper steps to video tuning would be great. And can the colour (hue) on the dvd copy (for TV playback) ever be exactly the same as the original vhs video? I'm capturing in YUY2.

Thanks.