VHS Capturing Problem - "Color Distortion"

[moviequeen7609]

I am newbie to this forum and was hoping someone can help. I have been capturing VHS tapes to my PC using ATI and/or Nero. However, I have been using older VCRs and have noticed lately that capturing is producing a "color distortion" in the upper 25% of the screen. This generally happens with tapes enriched with purples, reds & blues - these colors fade in and out during play and are really annoying to watch. However, this doesn't happen with every tape. Before I go to the great expense of purchasing another VCR, I was wondering if anyone has had this problem and if it is the tape, the VCR or low memory (approx. 30GB) on the computer. Any help would be appreciated.

[Cunhambebe]

You can try to use AviSynth to fix these problems with colors, etc. AviSynth works as an editor and frameserver. That means you can load your AVI file there (even an MPEG2/m2v) and through the use of scriptting, you can fix what you want with its own filters and/or external filters and plug-ins, frameserving the "fake" file to your favorite encoder AviSynth works in YUY2, RGB and YV12. There won't be any convertions as YUV>RGB, so your final file will probably get state-of-the-art quality. (That depends on the output, since most MPEG2 encoders, if not all of them work in RGB to output an MPEG2 that is YV12).