Hi everyone, I discovered this forum while attempting to digitize my Hi-8 tapes and was hoping this community might be able to help me identify the particular video artifact I'm seeing, and maybe isolate what's causing it.
Some background on my setup:
Playback: Sony ccd-trv65 via S-video and red/white composite cables for audio
Capture card: ATI TV Wonder 600 USB using "Version 1.0" drivers found online (this could be a problem)
Operating System: Windows 10 (I know, I'll get back to this)
Video software: Virtual Dub, using the setup listed here: (
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...-settings.html)
Attached to this post is a short video clip and a screenshot of what I'm seeing.
While recording the playback on
virtualdub, every once in a while, I'm noticing what looks like flashes of duplicate frames or somethings appear on the bottom of the video. It's hard to describe, but I don't think this is typical visual artifacts in the overscan region because it creeps pretty high up into the video.
I've attempted to search for similar issues online, but I think my problem is I don't really know how to accurately describe what I'm seeing, so searching something vague like "video artifacts on bottom of screen" or "duplicate images on bottom of video" obviously doesn't really give me great results. I did excitedly find a post on another forum that seemed to have a similar issue (
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/...what-causes-it) but the suggestions were things like it's an alignment problem, or I need to clean the heads, and before I do anything mechanical with the camcorder I wanted to confirm what I'm seeing is a similar issue.
One other thing I want to point out is that the playback of the videos look perfect in the flip out monitor attached to the camcorder, so at least to me that makes me think it's an issue with my capture setup and not the tape itself, but I could be wrong. Also this is the original device that recorded these tapes.
Another strange thing is that the audio sounds sped up? which I'm worried maybe I'm recording playback at too high a framerate? I looked up what Hi-8 recorded in and the internet is telling me 29.97 frames per second which I have
virtualdub setup to record at, but perhaps this is too fast?
A few things that I'm uncertain about that could very well be the cause:
1. It was fiddly getting a driver installed for the TV wonder 600 on Windows 10, and before I attempt to either dig out an old laptop or dual boot windows XP on my machine, I wanted to try and get it working on Windows 10 as I've read others have had success with this. I've clearly gotten it close, so I'm hoping this is not related to the operating system, but if it is I'm willing to get an XP machine to try using the ATI TV Wonder capture software.
2. The S-video and male-male composite cables I have were bought on
amazon and didn't come with either the camcorder or the capture card. I no longer have original cables of either. Maybe I need higher quality cables.
3. I've never cleaned this camcorder (didn't want to mess any of the internals up) and it's over 20 years old at this point I think. So that very well could be an issue.
4. Is the camcorder itself a problem? I figured with s-video out it should be decent quality but maybe I should look for a better camcorder to play back the hi-8 tapes
This forum has been immensely helpful in my journey to digitize my family tapes, and it's genuinely incredible to see a community like this still so active. Thank you to anyone for any help.
