The Thin Green Line

gillyv · Post by **gillyv** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:00 am

When capturing avi footage form Hi 8 tapes on a sony DCR_TRV355E a small thin green line appears down the right hand side of the film. This is not on the original footage. Any ideas why this is happening?
I was using windows movie maker to capture the footage as the Ulead software refused to recognise that a camera was there. Or it would run for about 10 seconds and then some message came up that it didn't like it!
When capturing mpeg from a Sony HDR-HC5E Ulead captures fine and no green lines either.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:06 pm

Using the Search function I was able to find the following thread. Please note the last post.
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... green+line

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:02 am

Hopefully you are capturing the video off the camcorder with an IEEE1394 firewire (iLink) cable and not USB.

gillyv · Post by **gillyv** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:34 am

Had a look at the post you had searched to.
the line is straight not jaggedy so probably not over run. Bight green and covers the video.
Occurred on video captured by two different computers. Using firewire each time. Only constant is the camera itself and hi8 tapes.
Our Sony HD is fine no problems.

How would you crop video?
Cheers
GILLY

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:56 am

Crop the video using the Crop Filter, found in the Video Filters Library..

gillyv · Post by **gillyv** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:31 am

Hi ron
thanks did that and yes was able to crop out the greenline okay but now I have the grey cropped line down the right hand side. Does this show on the final DVD I would make or is it just something you see in the preview in Ulead?

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:02 am

It may on some widescreen or plasma TVs, however the traditional CRT models, this area is generally cut off in the overscan.

If it does show, then use the Distort Clip, found on the Attribute tab, and resize the clip so that area is outside the "title safe" zone. Resizing may result in some additional loss of screen content.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:58 pm

As I stated in my post, I said to note the last post where it was stated that a hardware update solved the problem - it was not overscan.

gillyv · Post by **gillyv** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:39 pm

Hi Black Lab, I did note that point about the overscan that you mentioned, thankyou. Not sure what hardware I would need to update as I don't use the Leadtek TV drivers that he mentioned. Do you have any suggestions?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:16 am