I am capturing some old hi8 tapes and Im struggling to find out how to improve the quality. For playback I use a DRV-TRV235E, which works great, and for capture I use the hauppauge usb-live2.
The problem is that the capture looks too dark to me and the colors a bit flat. I use the camcorder's lcd for reference and there the image looks much more lively so to say.
I have added a sample. Sometimes the images gets really dark and it becomes hard to see any detail. Especially at the end of the clip
Is the recording done incorrectly or can I fix this in avisynth? If so how? Something with the levels and gamma?
I am a complete newbie to this and avisynth is still somewhat puzzling. From what I get from the histograms, the image should be within bounds. But I may be reading them wrong.
Also two other things I just noticed. When I trimmed a clip in
virtualdub to share here I applied
huffyuv again otherwise the filesize would just be enormous. Is that ok? And I just noticed that audio is out of sync. I will have to look into that as well...