VHS-DVD with Adaptec VideOH PCI

[ER]

I having trouble to do this. The picture is unsharp and some colour is kind of bleading, picture is worse than on the VHS-tape.
I use Movie Mill 260 with the settings at DVD-quality MPEG.
I have tried composite 1 and composite 2 with no diffrence in quality.
What am i doing wrong?

[Gees]

Do you have saturation set too high? My Movie Mill had it set at default that was over-saturated.

Take a short (2 minute clip) and try adjusting the different settings 'til you see improved results.

[barrybear]

Could it be that your VHS tape has macrovision copy protection on it. One way to find out is to run the tape through a videoplayer and use the fast forward button and slightly disrupt the sinc if the copy protection is there you will see large white squres at the top of the frame

Barrybear

[ER]

Thanks, Colorproblem fixed but not the sharpnes of cature. Is there any software that can like Photoshop (for image) enhance the sharpnes of video?
This particular movie was recorded from a satellit reciver. VCR- friendly or what it is called when it has no recording protection.

[Gees]

No, but there's filters you can try. If you've never done it, read up on VirtualDub in TOOLS. Then go exploring available filters and learn to frameserve.

Tempgenc has some built-in filters, but Vdub gives you many more choices.

All you can effectively do is "fake" better quality, but you may not like the results better than the original capture. Try small tests and compare.

PS - if it's captured from digital broadcast you may have the result of an mpg that already contained "bleed", noise, etc. Depends on what you started with as to what you can achieve. It may look OK when viewed on TV compared to PC.

[ER]

OK, i downloaded VirtualDub. But i can´t use the capture function. Does Adaptec not support Virtualdub at all?

[Gees]

I don't know - I never tried. I use the VideOh DVD version, not PCI.

I'm happy with MovieMill to capture. I use Virtualdub if I then want/need to apply any filters after capture. That can't be accomplished during capture, so no need to change my capture routine.

[boldenburg45]

How old is your PCI Card? I have a newer 2410 and it won't work with Virtualdub, only bundled software and sagerecorder..

[SatStorm]

You need iuVCR for capture....
Use Virtualdub for post capture proccessing.

[SHS]

boldenburg45 the card have will not work with any plane jane AVI capture application becuase it only output MPEG not AVI.

[SatStorm]

VideOH is only mpeg 2?
Now, how I made this goof!!!!

What I had in mind and I believed that supports avi capture?


Well, this "Analog VideoIn" under "Features" on the card list, confuses me!

[SHS]

Analog VideoIn ref to Tuner/S-Video or Composite input
What you fail to see was the words
MPEG1 realtime
MPEG2 realtime
Usely this can mean software or hardware encoding so it kind of hard to tell witout looking at the drivers them self to see oh made the chip.
No it should also do MPEG1.
But keep in mind there four diff VideOh PCI card and 2 diff Hardware MPEG encoder chip.
There only one VideOh! that dose AVI and is AVC-1100 know as VideOh! CD all the other Hardware base encoder even the other USB model.