Gamma too high on Asus G3T5 DLX

[pinkerton]

I am capturing VHS with my Asus Geforce3 T5 Deluxe and the overlay gamma setting seems to be way too high, but I cant seem to be able to find a setting to change it. I can change contrast and brightness but it doesnt help.
Any idea's? I'm using powervcr2 to capture the video.
Thanks

[pinkerton]

Any help would be of use, I have a stack of VHS tapes that I would like to capture. I bought the G3 deluxe because I needed a new GFX card and a capture card, this supplied both. The quality isnt up to scratch because the
Gamma overlay is too high (its fine using anything else ie DVD playback).

[pinkerton]

Someone must be able to help?
Can the overlay gamma be changed?
Or is the Asus deluxe just rubbish for video capture?
PLZ help!!!

[pinkerton]

Thanks for all the help.

[HillJack]

I have the ASUS V6800 Deluxe, and am using VirtualDub but the same should apply to PowerVCR (or close to it). I'll assume you are using the nVidia WDM drivers?

There SHOULD be a Video Source settings dialog somewhere in PowerVCR (assuming it lets you choose your capture device). There should also be a section to configure it, because the configuration part is built-into the drivers, not the program.

You should be able to find a dialog box like this (heck, exactly like this).



Look around for Video / Source menu options I guess.

Btw, have you tried capturing and converting and seeing if the resulting gamma is still too high? When I first started capturing video years ago, I thought the same thing and started mucking with the device settings. Then I learned to just leave them at their default because 99% of the time, the defaults work just fine (and yes, the video preview on my monitor looks brighter, but thats because of the monitor -- the resulting video capture has always looked fine for me).

Sorry I can't help you more, VirtualDub is the capture program of choice for me