I have a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR PCI II capture card which I absolutely love because it made my Macrovision and dropped frames issues with my ATI AIW 9600 card moot. Most of the VHS tapes I've been converting to DVD and/or DIVX AVIs are good quality tapes that really require no tweaking to meet my not-so-picky taste, but a few of my old favorite VHS tapes aren't in such great shape. Recently, I read in a Usenet NG about the sharpening virtues of Cinemacraft's encoder and the poster's insistence that it outperformed TMPGENC where old VHS revitalization is concerned. I decided to give it a try and was delighted with the greatly enhanced quality CCE breathed into my old VHS films. Unfortunately, everything I use CCE on comes out with the jittery playback during panning scenes associated (if I understand correctly) with improper interlace field order flags. So, I guess what I'm asking is what I need to change in CCE's encoding settings to make the jitters go away? It's got to be CCE that's introducing the jitters, because all other captures I've done with the Hauppague card have produced no such jittery playback when burned to DVD.
Also, if the readers of this forum have the time and inclination, I would appreciate their comments and/or suggestions regarding the following capture issues.
Presently, to move a film from VHS to DVD, I do the following.
1. Capture to MPEG2 using Hauppague card and WinTV 2000.
2. Convert MPEG2 to elementary streams using DVD Lab.
3. Use DVD Lab to compile DVD files.
4. Use Nero Recode and/or CloneDVD to transcode to fit single layer DVD.
As I said, this method seems to work fine for my tastes, but if anyone has any ideas of a better way using my existing hardware, I'd appreciate any pointers.
Even though the Hauppague card gets rid of the Macrovision distortion on most commercial tapes I've converted, I'm having difficulty with contrast issues when trying to capture my MGM/UA James Bond collection. Whenever the scene changes to a brightly lit outdoor scene, the detail tends to become washed out by the background brightness. I think this is due to a more aggressive type of Macrovision used for these tapes. Is there some sort of filtering technique akin to Photoshop's Auto Levels feature for video that I can try?
Last, but not least, I just put together a new system with a 3.2 Ghz dual core processor and an 800 MHZ FSB with two gigs of RAM on board. It is now the fastest machine I have. I slapped an old ATI 9550 card in it temporarily, but would like to buy a capture card that does direct AVI captures for it since I believe this new machine might be able to pull off straight AVI captures without the dreaded dropped-frames problem. ATI has two new cards I'm looking at, namely the AIW 2006 Edition (9600 chipset-based) and the AIW X800 XT. Both are AGP cards which is the route I need to go as my mobo does not have PCIE support. Any thoughts on either of these cards or possible alternatives? It would be very helpful if anyone knows whether any of the ATI Macrovision hacks works with either of the aforementioned cards as I still have a bunch of commercial tapes I want to convert to DVD.
Thanks for any and all consideration any of you give to this post!
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Originally Posted by Oz0851
But the thing I wanted to comment on was your step #4 above. I used to just use default settings in WinTV2000 and shrink afterward. Then I discovered that by using the Videohelp Bitrate Calculator, I could save preset configs in WinTV2000 - specific to the length of the program I was trying to capture. And so I did ... one minute apart from 1hr2min programs to 2hr24min programs. The reason for those limitations is that at 1hr2min, max bitrate capture settings are in play - and capturing programs under that time could not be captured any better. And, the 2hr24min limit on the upside gives me a video bitrate above 4000 with 224k audio. Below 4000, I find that video quality can get pretty dicey. I do capture longer programs to burn to one DVD ... but they're always experimental (I never know what I'll end up with until it's done).
Bottom line? I now shrink program captures ONLY as a last resort. Somehow, the quality of a pre-configured capture always looks better.
P.S. FWIW, WinTV2000 saves all presets (including those added by users) in the registry. Here's a sample of what my presets look like:
If I was capturing a movie on VHS tape and the tape box said the running time was 123 minutes, I'd use my pre-configured settings for 2:04 - 124 mins, guaranteeing that I'd not have to shrink the result files. -
I just Installed Sun's Java on one of my machines and downloaded the Bitrate Calculator. While I've never seen a side-by-side comparison of two videos that were processed with and without the extra step of compression I've been using, what you pointed out makes perfect sense. Though setting up the presets will take a bit of time, in the long run I'll save far more time by adopting your method. Thanks very much for taking the time to reply and providing that valuable template for me to copy.
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Use my cheatsheet, too:
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=309331
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