How to adjust color on video capured with DVD Recorder?

[Offroad]

I have a show captured from my Satellite Dish on my JVC DRM10 that needs the video adjusted before I edit and author to DVD.

The recorder's captures normally look great so I'm pretty sure it came off the Dish this way. Its washed out looking and needs the saturation and color adjusted.

I'm using Womble for editing and TMPGEnc DVD author before I burn to DVD. Is there an easy way to adjust saturation and color on this capture? If it requires re-encoding I'd like to do that with minimal loss in quality. The video was recorded at the 90 minute setting so has plenty of bandwidth.

Thanks.

[DVWannaB]

whats up off?

The only way to fix this is to apply filter and re-encode. You can use TMPGEnc which has built in filters to do this. Just re-encode at the same average bitrate that the DVD recorder used, which is somewhere around 6 to 6.5 Mbps, which is the approximation of the 90-minute record mode.

To do this burn the recording to a RW disk in VR mode. Then just copy the contents on the RW disk to your computer hard drive. If there are segments i the video file that you do not want, just edit in Womble and save as new file. Now it gets tricky.

You will need:
TMPGEnc
VirtualDubMOD or VirtualDub MPEG2 (both free)

TMPGEnc does not accept *.mpg files, so you have to convert the file.

Open your file in virtualdub, then click on FILE -----> Frameserve------- type in a name (ex.: movie.vdr.avi). Also, as an option you can use the Virtualdub filters to add the color you want. Actually I would recommend it.

DO NOT SHUT DOWN virtualdub!!!!!! virtualdub is creating a dummy file to fool the encoder to think it is an *.avi, so virtualdub should remain running.

Open TMPGEnc and open up "movie.vdr.avi". Apply filters color filters (if necessary) and encode to new file. For more detail on this process, see the tutorials on each application on this site.