Video lightens/darkens during recording

[mediachips]

hi all
this was probably answered before but kinda need rush answer if you can.
bought used blockbuster vhs tape want to add portion of it to my digitial collection for storage.

during capture the video lightens/darkens regularly as it is playing any ideas on how to clean this out?

i'm guessing some kind of copy write protection but again i bought the used tape.

thanks

[disturbed1]

Could be macrovision. Since it is a retail (production) VHS tape. Used or not, using it doesn't remove macrovision.

Your capture hardware/VCR could have an auto gain or auto color function. If so, turn it off.

[CaseyComb]

It is macrovision.

[Capmaster]

I've had that happen when the s-video connector is loose.

[steptoe]

No, thats definately Macrovison doing its horrible job

What you need is a patch cable that can remove macrovsion

I really must find that link for that cable that removes macrovison,soooo many people need that link, maybe I can get shares in it when I eventually find it again

[lchiu7]

I recently captured a videotape I have (Total Recall) that is Macrovision protected (in fact when you play the tape it proudly announces with a trailer, this tape is protected with macrovision to ensure quality of the tape or words to that effect) in order get it to DVD. I fed the output from a VHS machine via composite video to my Pinnacle DC10+ card and it captured just fine with no Macrovision artifacts. The card captures in native MJPEG format and I converted the video to MPEG2 with MCE and authored the DVD with DVD MF.

When I played back the authored DVD in sync with the tape, the difference between the two was minor and I am happy now I can watch the movie without fear of the tape getting mangled in the machine etc.

So Macrovision didn't come into play with this card/input

[aaronh]

I have found that using a DV camcorder to convert the analog signal to digital seems to get rid of the macrovision effect.