Finding and deleting bad frames

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I have a 160 min long video clip in Hi8 analog format, which I captured and stored on HD. There are many bad frames (partially black, garbled) scattered in the clip. Can I spot and delete these frames using filters plugged into VirtualDub? Help will be much appreciated.

[CSULB71]

A little more info needed here:
1. Are the bad frames present on your original Hi8 footage?
2. Was the video "captured" via a capture card (and into what format), or
3. "transferred" as DV/AVI via firewire thru an analog-to-DV converter (like with digital camcorder pass-thru)?

If you can rule out #1, was your file on the HD captured into MPEG2? If so, it won't be very easy, and may actually be easier if you can re-do the footage per #3 above using, say, WinDV and the Panasonic DV codec. Then you shouldn't have any bad frames. But if they were in the original Hi8 footage, then VirtualDub can be used on the AVI file to delete them.

[SearchQuality]

A little more info needed here:
1. Are the bad frames present on your original Hi8 footage? Yes they are.
3. "transferred" as DV/AVI via firewire thru an analog-to-DV converter (like with digital camcorder pass-thru)? Yes exactly that is how I captured.
But if they were in the original Hi8 footage, then VirtualDub can be used on the AVI file to delete them.

Could you tell me which tools can I use for this purpose. I tried some of them but they are not exactly what I want.
Tanks.

[CSULB71]

You havn't said what you want the end product of your AVI file to be, and that will determine what tool(s) you'll want to use. If you want to burn to DVD, then there are several ways to get there, depending on whether you want to author/create menus, for example, or just have a "basic" DVD-compliant file that will start playing when loaded into the DVD player.
However, to answer your initial question, I'd use VirtualDub to manually find (sorry ) each of the bad frames, select the "start" and "end" frame, then use the edit function to delete it/them. You'll have to do this for each bad frame or group of consecutive bad frames you find as you step thru the video. You can then save the edited AVI via "direct process" (no filtering/compression); that would be the quickest. But if you want to do a DVD then the next steps to convert to MPEG2 files is where things can get complicated (like framserving to another application for encoding, etc.), and there are several choices to check out in the "Tools" section, depending on what you want to do. Good luck.