Pinnacle AV/DV Card - problem with color

[leniwiec]

Hi,

I have Pinnacle AV/DV capture card for a couple of years now but only recently I've stared to search for how I can digitalized my VHS with minimal loss of quality.
First of all I gave one of my tapes to the professionalist who uses some hardware DV encoder. Here's the result:

Fine with me.

Then I tried to capture the same with my pinnacle card and huffyuv codec, and that's what I've got:


Why the difference is so huge? I thought the huffyuv codec is pretty much lossless, is the pinnacle card so crap? Any advice what I can do to get better results?

PS. Though my VCR is not the best quality it gives normal picture on the TV (as in the first picture).

[jagabo]

It's your capture card, not the codec. It may have proc amp settings where you can adjust, brightness, colors, etc.