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Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 06-01-2026, 05:15 PM

Replies: 20 VHS tape rescue? Views: 586 Posted By keaton I have encountered a few instances where tape... I have encountered a few instances where tape tension seemed to be the problem, yet there was no sign of Sticky Shed Syndrome (which I've encountered, but only with 3/4" U-matic tapes). Once I had a...

Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 04-25-2026, 05:05 PM

Replies: 3 Random bad frames, what is this noise? Views: 214 Posted By keaton I've seen bad frames like that before. Seems like... I've seen bad frames like that before. Seems like the timing on one of the 2 interlaced fields in that frame had a timing error, and so one of the fields is off by a few rows with respect to the...

Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 08-27-2025, 07:35 PM

Replies: 18 Damaged Betamax tapes? Views: 573 Posted By keaton Thanks for sharing that! Glad to know it's not... Thanks for sharing that! Glad to know it's not just me who's seen this. :) Excellent! That's a best case scenario! You're welcome! Here's the video I was thinking of....

Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 08-27-2025, 02:23 PM

Replies: 18 Damaged Betamax tapes? Views: 573 Posted By keaton Other potential factors with Betamax that I've... Other potential factors with Betamax that I've seen effect playback is recording speed, what part of the reel you are playing back (i.e. beginning, middle, end), and the flaps inside the shell. It...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 04-27-2025, 10:45 AM

Replies: 15 Using Trim, color correction clips, recombining? Views: 954 Posted By keaton Although you probably won't need it if you are... Although you probably won't need it if you are just doing luminance/color adjustments, some filters or functions can effect the audio. So if you ever find issues with audio, such as silence in...

Forum: Project Planning, Workflows 03-22-2025, 09:42 PM

Replies: 11 Capturing Hi-Band SP U-matic with this setup? Views: 1,333 Posted By keaton The VO-9XXX series does playback both SP and... The VO-9XXX series does playback both SP and non-SP formats. I'm in NTSC land (US), not PAL. NTSC doesn't have the separate High & Low Band modes as PAL does. But your player should handle both since...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-01-2025, 12:26 PM

Replies: 7 VHS color correction, denoise? Views: 2,170 Posted By keaton Glad you're having success! It's a wonderful... Glad you're having success! It's a wonderful feeling bringing the past back to life with the aid of modern technology! When it comes to bringing life back into faded photos or videotape, adjusting...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 01-28-2025, 10:36 PM

Replies: 7 VHS color correction, denoise? Views: 2,170 Posted By keaton Attachment was uncompressed RGB, not Huffyuv. But... Attachment was uncompressed RGB, not Huffyuv. But no worries, I did a quick scan of it and did a couple things to it. Lots more notes and things to investigate in the attached .avs file I used. ...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 10-12-2024, 07:10 PM

Replies: 11 Is this VHS worth restoring? Views: 1,190 Posted By keaton A vectorscope such as VirtualDub Color Tools... A vectorscope such as VirtualDub Color Tools plugin or AviSynth Histogram in color or color 2 mode shows JVC has many random bursts of color noise coming and going from frame to frame. Although most...

Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 07-30-2024, 07:30 PM

Replies: 4 Wrongly captured PAL VHS at 50fps... no chance to deinterlace? Views: 2,437 Posted By keaton Those "50 fps interlaced" videos are actually 50... Those "50 fps interlaced" videos are actually 50 fps progressive, i.e. they are 50 full frames per second. As you've described, when you captured at 50 fps you captured progressive and not...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 04-21-2024, 11:13 AM

Replies: 39 How to remove colored bar on side of Hi8 tape? Views: 3,013 Posted By keaton I don't know much about 32-bit vs 64-bit windows.... I don't know much about 32-bit vs 64-bit windows. Sometimes latest Windows can use legacy 32-bit things, sometimes it doesn't. Not much experience with that. I've never used anything other than...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 04-21-2024, 08:25 AM

Replies: 39 How to remove colored bar on side of Hi8 tape? Views: 3,013 Posted By keaton The latest file posted to... The latest file posted to http://www.avisynth.nl/index.php/ChromaShift is 20 years old and only has a 32-bit version of ChromaShift.dll. Although it does have the source code in the attached .zip...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 04-20-2024, 08:03 PM

Replies: 39 How to remove colored bar on side of Hi8 tape? Views: 3,013 Posted By keaton The forum's recommendation is to post a lossless... The forum's recommendation is to post a lossless avi file to work with (typically huffyuv). The forum has posting guidelines somewhere. Didn't have the time to track them down. Without that, others...

Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 08-01-2023, 11:24 PM

Replies: 102 TBC still required for RF capture? (VHS-decode) Views: 17,465 Posted By keaton Even after all the waves of TV DVD sets and... Even after all the waves of TV DVD sets and streaming options, there's still so much more that isn't available. There are still showrunners, producers, actors, etc. that cannot find digital copies of...

Forum: Edit Video, Audio 07-07-2023, 09:27 PM

Replies: 4 Audio noise from VHS Views: 1,369 Posted By keaton For the benefit of others reading this in future,... For the benefit of others reading this in future, it would have been preferred if a shorter sample was attached that was under the 100 MB file attachment limit. However, I did play with this for...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 01-21-2023, 09:37 AM

Replies: 14 Interlacing issue Views: 1,272 Posted By keaton In Avisynth, you can slice and dice a video down... In Avisynth, you can slice and dice a video down to the pixel if you wish. Separate and Select commands could be used. Refer to http://avisynth.nl/index.php/SeparateRows and...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 01-20-2023, 11:12 PM

Replies: 14 Interlacing issue Views: 1,272 Posted By keaton Agreed. I was still modifying my post after you... Agreed. I was still modifying my post after you quoted me, as my thoughts were still not totally thought through. :) When the fields themselves have jagged looking artifacts, such as on the veins...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 08-18-2022, 07:30 PM

Replies: 12 How to replace frames with duplicate frames? Views: 3,854 Posted By keaton Similar to FreezeFrame, Avisynth also has... Similar to FreezeFrame, Avisynth also has DeleteFrame and DuplicateFrame. Neither of which effect the audio. So long as you have a Duplicate for every Delete, you won't change the audio/video sync. ...

Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 07-04-2022, 12:13 AM

Replies: 7 Unable to weave files after applying DeFreq? Views: 1,485 Posted By keaton Remove the Return keyword from your script. When... Remove the Return keyword from your script. When you use the return statement, you are saying to exit the script and return the result of what is placed on the same line after the return keyword. So,...

Forum: Encode, Convert for streaming 06-29-2022, 06:03 PM

Replies: 4 To deinterlace or not? Size to render? Views: 1,330 Posted By keaton H264 is the most common format these days. Most... H264 is the most common format these days. Most common containers are mp4 or mkv. I may be mistaken, but I've heard Apple could have some issues with mkv. So, perhaps mp4 is the most likely to work...

Forum: Edit Video, Audio 06-28-2022, 07:50 PM

Replies: 3 How to check frame order in captured file? Views: 1,252 Posted By keaton Their is no field order information stored in the... Their is no field order information stored in the lossless AVI files, so no program would show you this. If you had compressed it to an interlaced format such as MPEG2, you could find that...

Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 06-28-2022, 07:32 PM

Replies: 10 How to convert HuffYUV to Lagarith? Views: 1,980 Posted By keaton http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/video-editing/6413... http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/video-editing/6413-convert-huffyuv-lagarith.html One note on what sanlyn said about YV12. If you want to preserve YUY2 (i.e. 4:2:2), instead of converting down to...

Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 06-02-2022, 12:11 AM

Replies: 17 VHS recording has fringing on left edge? Views: 2,447 Posted By keaton I see the same behavior with my AG-1980. Here's... I see the same behavior with my AG-1980. Here's what I've experienced. When I first noticed this kind of thing on certain tapes, it drove me crazy for a while trying to understand it's seeming...

Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 12-13-2021, 05:14 PM

Replies: 11 Histogram levels Views: 2,767 Posted By keaton Here's a thread with a similar question which I... Here's a thread with a similar question which I replied to. http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/video-capture/11780-capturing-virtualdub-histogram.html This explains that anything below 16 or above 235...

Forum: Capture, Record, Transfer 12-01-2021, 08:01 PM

Replies: 5 Video tape baking with food dehydrator? Views: 4,322 Posted By keaton I had to bake a U-matic tape recently. It was my... I had to bake a U-matic tape recently. It was my first attempt at baking. I've been doing VHS for years and have been fortunate to not encounter sticky shed with that format. With U-matic it seems to...

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