Adjusting images with green AVT-8710 while capturing?

[Patrick_S]

Currently I'm capturing some of my old VHS tapes, while using the green AVT-8710 as TBC. Sometimes the footage I'm capturing is either underexposed or overexposed, while I can adjust settings like brightness or contrast to fix the footage with this TBC, I'm not sure whether this is the right way to go. If I adjust these settings while capturing, I'll have to re-capture the same footage (now using the correct settings). This feels illogical, shouldn't it be better to just keep it at one setting while capturing and fix these image problems when I'm restoring the footage later? What would you suggest?

[msgohan]

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Originally Posted by Patrick_S

If I adjust these settings while capturing, I'll have to re-capture the same footage (now using the correct settings). This feels illogical, shouldn't it be better to just keep it at one setting while capturing and fix these image problems when I'm restoring the footage later?

Based on my experience with my own green AVT-8710, its proc amp settings are basically useless. For example, an overexposed tape causes my AVT-8710 to internally clip the signal at Y=235, and lowering the Contrast and/or Brightness doesn't recover any levels; just shifts everything down and makes the dynamic range worse.

Just use the Reset button to set everything to neutral, and capture as-is.

It may be worth manually setting the Video System (NTSC, PAL, etc.) instead of letting it use Auto detection. I think you can lose a few extra frames at the start of tape playback when the Auto mode is trying to figure out which standard to use.

[Patrick_S]

That makes sense, thanks!