I have included a picture so you can see the line that is on my video to matter the tape, the whole time. It is more prominent in person than it shows in the picture that why I had to take this picture with black screen, it never moves and stands out throughout. It appears it is hardware related but I am not sure. Has anyone seen this before or know anything about what is going on. I am transferring VHS to my computer through a ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB VisionTek HDTV to my computer. Thanks for any ideas.
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I believe that's a reflection of the horizontal sync pulse. Try a different cable.
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changed out all cables and even tried a different vcr and it is still there. Is it possible it is the ATI TV Wonder HD 600? I even changed the USB port I was plugged into, moved the HD 600 to the front USB port and its still there. I made sure no cables are crossing any of the S-Video cables. It seems like maybe its the ATI TV Wonder HD 600?
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That means the problem is on the tapes.
If the problem is on the tapes none of those will fix it. Though, a line-TBC (like the ES10) will reduce the horizontal time base errors (a separate issue) so it's worth having.
You will have to fix it in software -- adding in a shifted and darkened version of the picture. But you'll have to reconstruct the entire horizontal image, including the sync pulse. And since it varies from recording to recording you'll have to tune it for each recording. Here's sample fix. a portion of the original frame on the top left, the same portion fixed on the top right. The lower pair is the same two images with a large gain to make the dark reflected image more obvious.
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First, you'll probably have to install and learn how to use AviSynth and a few third party filters. Then...
Here's what a scanline of analog NTSC video looks like:
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The portion of the signal that's captured only includes the "active picture" section. The vertical bar in your video is a reflection of the sync pulse -- so we need to reconstruct the horizontal blanking interval before we can subtract it away. Since part of the sample frame is black (aside from the reflection of the sync pulse) we can use that as a source to reconstruct the horizontal blanking interval. A better source would be an all black frame from the same recording, or at least one where the reflected horizontal blanking interval is all black.
Code:ImageSource("Untitled2.jpg", start=0, end=23, fps=23.976).ConvertToYUY2(interlaced=true).BilinearResize(720,480).Crop(8,0,-8,-0) src = last # first build the horizontal blanking interval # and scale it for the brightness of the reflected signal hzb = Crop(0,4,704,30).BilinearResize(176,2) hzb = Merge(hzb, hzb.FlipVertical()) hzb = hzb.BilinearResize(704,30) hzb = StackVertical(hzb,hzb) #60 hzb = StackVertical(hzb,hzb) #120 hzb = StackVertical(hzb,hzb) #240 hzb = StackVertical(hzb,hzb) #480 hzb = hzb.Crop(180,0,154,-0).ColorYUV(cont_y=-512).ColorYUV(off_y=-208) # build the reflected signal we are going to subtract # including the horizontal blanking interval refl = StackHorizontal(src.Tweak(cont=0.023, sat=0.023, coring=false).ColorYUV(off_y=4), hzb) refl = StackHorizontal(refl, refl) refl = Crop(refl, 526,0,704,480).BilinearResize(180,480).BilinearResize(704,480) # remove the reflected signal from the video Overlay(src, refl, mode="add").ColorYUV(off_y=-6)
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Here's my reconstruction of the reflected image including the horizontal blanking interval (brightness and contrast adjusted to make the image more visible):
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And the result after "subtracting" it:
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It's not quite perfect, it needs more work. The reflection might be the last frame, not the current frame, or it may be a line (of one field) low. -
check your power outlet (connect your pc and vcr on the same pw outlet)
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