Vdub filters on my HI8/VHS before Authoring..

[nopk]

Hi all.. just finished a painfully long session of caping a few hours of video from a family friends 60+ tape HI8/VHS collection.. have to build a memorial video of her husband in the next few days..

I'll be handing off all this cap'd footage to my bro-in-law so he can put all these random clips into something cohesive on his Mac Pro..

Ive captured everything in Virtualdub with huffyuv.. quality has been decent overall.. but as the final output will be DVD I thought I'd ask..

Are there any virtualdub filters that are a 'must-do' generally before further editing/authoring?

I can leave all these interlaced (as they came off the camera.. right?) I don't have to de-interlace them for proper display on DVD/TV later?

thanks,

nopk

[guns1inger]

Are there any virtualdub filters that are a 'must-do' generally before further editing/authoring?

Short answer : No

Long answer : There is not set filter chain that is a must run on every cap. Every video is unique, and the filters required will vary from clip to clip. If you know your camera has a particular quirk - perhaps a contrast issue, for example - then you might have a basic chain to tweak for this type of clean up. Otherwise, it is a case by case thing.

I can leave all these interlaced (as they came off the camera.. right?) I don't have to de-interlace them for proper display on DVD/TV later?

Correct. If the target format is DVD, you will preserve the highest quality by [b]NOT/[b] de-interlacing. If you play the video back on a progressive tleveision at some point in the future, it's built-in deinterlacer will do a much better job on the fly than you can do in software.

[nopk]

Thanks for your reply.. appreciate the info..

While capturing the last couple VHS' tonite I had a couple where in action shots (nothing real fast, just a 2 yr old walking across a patio, or turning her head from side to side etc..) the captured image is very.. laggy? probably only by 1/2 second or so.. but if the head turns left, theres almost a ghost of a head turning left as well..

I'll assume that theres nothing filter-wise that can deal with this after its capped? Im trying to find a second VCR to try it on and on a TV.. rather than my monitor to see where the fault lies..

thanks,

nopk

[guns1inger]

Can you post a short clip as an example ?

[nopk]

Sure... heres a couple second clip..



sample%20ghost%20xvidf.avi

[lordsmurf]

It's all blurry. What did you do to it, between the capture and the XVID?

It looks like it's been attacked with a blended deinterlace.

[nopk]

that is as it came off the VHS tape.

I cap'd it from the source via huffyuv at 720x480. Then in order to downsize it enough to post it here, I ran it through xVid with a 2:1 filter..

but that being said, the huffuv original looks the same.

.. I did have a Sony XV-3000 (old) "video enchancer" between the source and my cap card.. but this tape looked bad even with that bypassed.. and this box helped a huge amount with some big distortion I had on other tapes.

nopk