Video Quality

[lancerx]

Hi

i just captured and old vhs tape and made a dvd with it but the i decide to give more quality to the video so i converted the dvd video to mpeg so i would like to add more quelity, i mean, like bright, color etc etc, is there any softw. for this?

thanks in advance

[sacajaweeda]

Yes

[redwudz]

You would have to reincode it to make those adjustments. If you were to capture it as an AVI originally, then you could use Virtualdub for adjustments or an encoder like TMPGEnc also can do it. If you are wanting to make those changes from the already burned DVD, you are generally going to lose quality.

[lancerx]

and what about from mpeg? isn't there a softw to work directly in mpeg? do i have to reincode to avi?

sacajaweeda if you know please let me know.

thanks

[sacajaweeda]

Best plan is to have all your settings right durring the capture process. I do all my color/contrast/brightness touch-up tweaking with AviSynth, along with any filtering, etc. I'm almost always manipulating AVI source to be encoded to MPEG2, also. As stated, re-encoding MPEG degrades the quality. If you are capturing to MPEG then you have to do all your color corrections & stuff with your capture software because the only way to change it is to re-encode it.