Newbe - video processing

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‘Project’ – Burn my old home video to DVD. (No copyright problems )

Video was recorded with (old) PAL 8mm Sony camera (not Hi8!) and later rerecorded with some editing to domestic PAL VHS(s). I was stupid enough to reuse 8mm tapes again – mean the only video I have – VHS. Apart of normal noise on VHS on some joins I have rainbows, and rarely some gaps between clips. I have 8 – 3 hours tapes and 2 – 4 hours.

Ideally I’d like to cleanup some rainbows/noise, edit it to frame level, and add menus pointing to ‘events’ (recording on next day or something like that)

Hardware – P4 2.4, 1Gig, 120Gb (Mirrored OS) + 80Gb (additional) disks, LeadTech analog TV/Capture.

What I’ve done so far.

I’ve captured all (!!!) tapes to mpeg – (MPEG-2 Codec) 720x576 PAL, Video quality 333, Target data rate (Kbps) 6000 (parameters from LeadTech’s WinFast PVR).

I tried edit mpegs. It looks OK while you edit, but after render Vegas moves my cut points several frames towards the end. Somebody in forums suggested that it moves to next I-frame (Since then I’ve read a bit about mpeg compression and have fractionally better understanding). That brings me realization that it looks like mpeg is not very good option for editing

Noise removal from mpeg using VirtuaDub-MPEG2 (suggested on forums). I wasn’t able to find option to save it back to mpeg. When I tried to save filtered result as AVI (720x576 PAL) it produced something huge with jumps on video and interruptions in sound.

Last attempt I’ve done yesterday. Tried to recapture some bits (!!!) (learnt my lesson) to AVI. 352x288 PAL – Vegas rendering produced not very good result (problem with sharpness). Capture with 352x576 looks funny in ‘Media Player’ (squesed). After Vegas rendering looks OK (still little bit worse than direct mpeg capture), but VirtualDub noise filtering still produce jumpy video (not as bad as 720x576).

Sorry for long message.

I’m stuck, just don’t know where to go from here. (Already(!!!). And I didn’t get even close to fun with menus and burning yet )


Could anybody recommend something. Ple-e-ease

[Tommyknocker]

Okay, once you edit your video in Virtual Dub, before saving, frameserve to TMPGEnc. Click here.