Fix jittery video w/corrupt frames captured from VHS?

[miamicanes]

I have a few videotapes with less than ideal quality that I need to capture for burning onto DVDs. The big problem is that the scene as a whole occasionally jumps a bit for what looks like 1 (maybe 2 or 3) fields before returning to normal, and occasionally an entire field will be corrupted beyond repair.

A few months ago, I went through one such capture and edited out the irreparable fields using Ulead Video Painter to replace the bad field with the last good field, but it took forever just to fix 15 minutes worth of video.

Are there any utilities (preferably free) that, given a source file in some supported format (avi, mpeg, mjpeg, etc), can automatically recognize corrupted frames and replace them with the previous or following good frame? Or recognize jittery video and automatically fix it?

[Don2050]

did you try Virtualdub ?

Video > Scan for bad frames

then save avi


what format are you capturing to ?

[miamicanes]

I can capture to just about anything... probably HuffyUV or Morgan MJPEG. Normally I capture using ATI MMC since it can do halfway decent realtime MPEG-2, but obviously something like this is going to take a little more offline work and isn't a realistic candidate for realtime MPEG-2 capture.

I didn't know about VirtualDub's "Scan for New Frames"... that's exactly the kind of tip I was hoping for

Ultimately, I'm making a 1/2 DV-1 (352 x 480) MPEG-2 file suitable for burning to DVD.