I am capturing VHS through a Pyro A/V Link converter that captures as DV following the "Recommended Procedures" and using a firewire cable. My system is a Dell Inspiron 9200, Pentium M 2.00 GhZ, 1GB RAM, 40 GB HD Space.
Occasionally, I get a greenish / washed out tint to the captured video. This is not present on the VHS, and does not necessarily repeat itself when I recapture the video.
Thoughts?
Greenish / washed out tint when capturing VHS
Moderator: Ken Berry
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david reece
do you find it more a turquoise color than blue or green?
If so i found that capture through my USB device and currnetly my Pinnalce Moviebox DV device does the same.
The only way i was able to get around this on my last pc was with an analogue capture card where you could change the brightness, contrast and color. However there is a down side quality! not very good.
Also it appers that the tinge you speak of is worse on a second generation tape? what i mean by this is if your vhs tape master is copied to another tape this one is the second generation tape.
I mention this as i had some cine films converted to VHS. my mum got the master and me and my brother got the copies. On the 2ndG copies there was video bleed which made the matter worse.
The filters in VS8 dont help much either.
When asked on the last board it was something to do with the chroma in the analogue video which causes the problem. Someone no doubt will elaborate here on that.
If so i found that capture through my USB device and currnetly my Pinnalce Moviebox DV device does the same.
The only way i was able to get around this on my last pc was with an analogue capture card where you could change the brightness, contrast and color. However there is a down side quality! not very good.
Also it appers that the tinge you speak of is worse on a second generation tape? what i mean by this is if your vhs tape master is copied to another tape this one is the second generation tape.
I mention this as i had some cine films converted to VHS. my mum got the master and me and my brother got the copies. On the 2ndG copies there was video bleed which made the matter worse.
The filters in VS8 dont help much either.
When asked on the last board it was something to do with the chroma in the analogue video which causes the problem. Someone no doubt will elaborate here on that.