How to remove significant ghosting?

[swiego]

This is from a VHS capture of an old tape. It's a commercial but I see this in the programming. I am pretty sure this wasn't there back when I recorded this I haven't played the tape in at least five or six years....



I did some searching and couldn't find any obvious avisynth or virtualdub filter that would be effective in dealing with this. Should I just call it quits or is there some magical solution I haven't stumbled across?

[Barnabas]

TMPGenc has an ghost reduction setting that can help. Look under advanced for the ghost setting.

[Cyrax9]

IF all else fails and you have some spare cash, consider looking at the hardware filters listed in this forum. The "Proc Amp Guide" has a link to SignVideo's Proc Amp Page -- they sell both single and dual-model Proc Amps; the dual being two single Proc Amps stacked into one. SignVideo is reportedly the same group that was originally Vidicraft and their stuff is supposedly top-notch.

Navigate through that SignVideo site to the section that lists their Proc Amps and Detailers. You don't **need** a Proc Amp if you don't have one, but it could help in some areas, ditto for the detailer. What caught my eye though is a little "VHS Filter" that supposedly does some Y/C shifting and removes VHS Falloff (Ghosting) -- this sucker is a few hundred dollars, but I'd like to know if anyone's used it with success. It looks like it could fix this guy's tape as well as a few of my own. While I intend to purchase one of these units in the future, I don't have the money at present. The thing is SignVideo is supposedly a great company and if their past work at Vidicraft is any indication than they definitely would qualify. The little box that'll fix your ghosting issue may be a bit expensive, but it could save you a major headache in the future and I've yet to see anything else like it mentioned in these forums. Consider a TBC as well as the VHS Y/C filter -- you could benefit from both a TBC and a DNR on that tape as well if you can afford it. If not, try looking for that Y/C filter on the signvideo page.

I hope this helps, again, this is after the software filtering fails. The biggest issue I have is removing VHS Falloff (ghosting) and this little box looks like the thing to do it, but I've yet to experiment with it; it sounds like what you need though.