Looking for a filter to to process VHS captured file

[emistral]

I am currently transferring my old VHS tapes collection on DVD. I am using a Leadtek Ti4200 video card to capture the video in DVD ready format.
Once I have the file I can split it in m2v and audio parts
Since some of these tapes have been played aver and over, some have a bad picture, etc....
So I was wondering if there is anybody who knows a tool to process the m2v file to filter the image (I am also looking for the same type of tool for the audio), improve it, etc...
Thanks

[Tommyknocker]

I would use TMPGEnc. There is a guide, and in addition, you may want to use the external tools to tweak your audio files as well.

[chaseru]

If you have poor quality VHS tapes you need to do some work with the captured AVI file before you encode it to an MPEG file.

Once the video is encoded to an MPEG there is little that can be done to improve the video quality.

I use a 2D Cleaner filter in virtualdub to get rid of the video noise - you'll have to play with the settings for each video. Then I resize to 352x480. If you want to view the transfers on a TV, make sure you select interlaced on the filter and resize. The combination of the filter and resize can eliminate much of the noise without losing too much detail.

I then frameserve the video to tmpgenc. I generally keep the tmpgenc wizard settings - only adjusting the bitrate for how much video I want on a DVD. Using 352x480 resultion I can fit 3-4 hours of video on one dvd, which is usually two movies. You don't need any more resolution than 352x480 for VHS transfers. If you keep everything interlaced and keep track of the proper field order, your DVD can look better than the VHS due to the noise reduction performed.

If I have a noisy audio source I use wavepurity to clean it up. Its a rather inexpensive editing program that has some good cleaning functions. Most of the noise on VHS transfers I find objectionable relates to noise from mistracking due to tapes that were recorded in EP, old, or even some new commerical tapes that just don't match up with my tape heads. Wavepuity gets rid of this noise quite well.