Anyone tried this out with analog capturing?

[stompinne]

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[SatStorm]

It is another way to smooth your source.

Personally, I didn't test this method, but years ago, I read and did myself a similar test: I captured a VCD again analogue from my standalone and I re-encode it to VCD. It looked better than the original VCD that way. Then, I realise that this happened because of the smoothing my standalone done to the VCD, plus the adjustments my capture device and the software I used succeed automatic to produce, for enchancing the pictrure.
Then, I filtered my original source and I had the best results of all those attemps.
I conclude that when you learn how to use the filters (and in which order), you can succeed far better results any other way. But this is the hard way: You need to read, test and learn many things. People tend to do stuff that feel easier, and reading / testing isn't the easier thing. Hook one device to another, roll couple of thing you stuff and end up with something that seems good, is actually easier for them.

[fmctm1sw]

But this is the hard way: You need to read, test and learn many things.

I'll agree. I've captured with numerous VCRs, tried numerous filtering schemes, deinterlaced, IVTC'd, etc, etc. I really found that just leaving my stuff alone was most appealing to me. I capture at 368x480, crop off enough pixels to end up at 352x480 and convert to MPEG-2 for DVD. I mainly stick with VHS/8MM conversions. just my opinions...