I am using "NTSC_M" video format and the "DVD" record format settings.
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I am guessing I should set them all to 128 - this looks faithful on my trial capture.Ģ. (I also don't know what the sharpness setting does). Most important, what settings should the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and sharpness be set to? I just want to faithfully capture whatever is on the VHS - I don't want to attempt to improve or correct it. I have some questions, and really appreciate any help you can offer:ġ.
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I have tested it out using less important tapes, and using the EZGrabber software for the capture, and it seems to be capturing fine. I have just purchased the Diamond VC500 capture device. Navigating through the menus and setting up was somewhat frustrating, but I finally got it.I have a precious video that I do not want to play more than once if I can avoid it. They sure put a lot of different functions into the player. I could load those into a DV project in Premiere Elements without getting the orange line.īeing able to have a "Proc Amp" where you can adjust saturation and other effects is a nice thing to have. The best combination was capturing to AVI with h.264 and PCM (raw) where I got a constant frame rate of 29.97. With the MKV files, there were some red frames at the end of the clips. Some of the codecs may not be available until the computer is rebooted. I'm thinking that you should reboot the computer after installing Potplayer. Then after shutting down the computer last night and starting the computer this morning, all the captures from yesterday loaded into Premiere Elements and they all played back smoothly. Then after the second install, I was able to capture, but had difficulty editing.
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The first time I chose not to install the extra codecs. Had to uninstall Potplayer and then reinstall it with the option to install the additional codecs. Finally was able to capture in a video/audio format where there was actually audio and the captures could be edited in Premiere Elements 2020. Steve, I downloaded Potplayer (PotplayerMini64) and installed it. Steve Grisetti wrote: Have you tried using Pot Player to do the capture? It has settings that will enrich that color. The Pyro came with ULEAD software, but I didn't install that. Both did about the same recording job as far as I could tell. 11) - that I got for $25 from Humble Bundles. I had to look up on Wikipedia to find out which side won. The only complaint I have is my parents didn't record the last 10 minutes of the 1991 Ryder Cup.
So I did it over making sure the tracking was correct and captured about 2 hours. There were definitely a lot of lost sections when I played the AVI back. The recording was made on a different VCR. I just captured 30 minutes using the Pyro only to find out the tracking was off. The real trick is making sure the tape is tracking correctly. I remember I had a couple of lost frames when I first started the capture with one of the devices, but that was it for lost frames. But I only did about 15 minutes with both devices. There were zero lost frames reported for both. Chuck Engels wrote:Thanks RJ, This is exactly what I was looking for What about lost frames? Did you get a report of lost frames for each capture? If so, what was the number of lost frames for each device?