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Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 05-09-2017, 02:26 PM
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Views: 2,033
Posted By milosz
thanks -- i can send you the tape when i am...

thanks -- i can send you the tape when i am through with it if you'd like to check it out.

i am getting pretty good results by running it through a hotronic ap41 with the ag1980 tbc off and using...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 05-07-2017, 11:37 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,033
Posted By milosz
my other caps seem perfect to me, but i will run...

my other caps seem perfect to me, but i will run some tests with tbc off. deter recapped this 1980 pretty recently. i also have a 1970 that was recapped in the past according to deter which displays...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 05-07-2017, 11:09 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,033
Posted By milosz
agc is off on the kramer. there's a dip switch...

agc is off on the kramer. there's a dip switch for it.

though i'm sure it's possible that there's some other agc mechanism in there that you can't turn off.
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 05-07-2017, 10:52 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,033
Posted By milosz
holy crap! i turned off the line tbc on the...

holy crap! i turned off the line tbc on the ag1980p and this improved the image. then i took the kramer out of the chain and it's completely fine!

so -- i can't use any sort of tbc on this tape?...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 05-07-2017, 09:39 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,033
Posted By milosz
yes, fc-400 =) i got lucky and picked up a...

yes, fc-400 =)

i got lucky and picked up a psu-less one on ebay for relatively cheap, and pulled a suitable adapter out of my hoarder power adapter bin.

another thing i noticed is the framerate...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 05-04-2017, 05:15 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,033
Posted By milosz
AVT-8710 dropped frames vs. Kramer FC-400, proc amp?

just wanted to post on update on my avt-8710 issues... the herringbone pattern and chroma bleed i saw were not a major issue, but i discovered that the new units were dropping in some cases a very...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-20-2017, 05:55 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,876
Posted By milosz
some clarifications (a) as far as the luma,...

some clarifications

(a) as far as the luma, tv playback looks ok (but not great) for this tape. consequently i suspect the macrovision diagnosis is correct. i may attempt to obtain another copy to...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-20-2017, 05:24 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,876
Posted By milosz
thanks for the script, i'll try it out on the...

thanks for the script, i'll try it out on the rest of the video. the intro part looks like crap on my tv also, while the rest is somewhat watchable.

the slightly off-center image seems like an...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-20-2017, 04:32 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,876
Posted By milosz
yeah, i noticed that on the captures i've been...

yeah, i noticed that on the captures i've been doing. i don't have an svideo input on my tv receiver so i can't confirm it either way, but my caps do seem to be maybe 10-15 lines off center.

what...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-20-2017, 03:09 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,800
Posted By milosz
i picked up another unit from b&h just to see if...

i picked up another unit from b&h just to see if there's a difference -- same serial format and behaves identically.
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-14-2017, 10:51 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,876
Posted By milosz
recapped ag1980p->svideo->avt-8710->svideo->aiw...

recapped ag1980p->svideo->avt-8710->svideo->aiw breakout cable->aiw 9000->vdub 704x480 YUY2

regarding the 2nd tape, i'm not sure if it's just that one, but it's the first time i've noticed that...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-13-2017, 09:45 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,800
Posted By milosz
i just took a look at this on my unit and unless...

i just took a look at this on my unit and unless i am missing something i don't think that is the case for me.
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-10-2017, 08:52 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,876
Posted By milosz
Commercial VHS capture very dark, crackling audio?

hi all, getting started capturing tapes with my setup & trying to figure out where the issues might be.

capture 1:

does anyone have any idea what might cause a commercial tape to look like this...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-06-2017, 04:33 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,800
Posted By milosz
thanks for the info -- the checkerboard pattern...

thanks for the info -- the checkerboard pattern looks like some kind of crosstalk to me.

i've done some tests with the avt out and the image is very obviously worse with no avt (though the chroma...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-06-2017, 03:13 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,800
Posted By milosz
i am capturing 4:2:2 YUY2 704x480 with huffyuv....

i am capturing 4:2:2 YUY2 704x480 with huffyuv. my understanding is that 704x480 is the native capture resolution of my video card (aiw 9000).



there is no compression anywhere in the chain for...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-06-2017, 02:37 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,800
Posted By milosz
i'm capturing in yuv422. unfortunately i don't...

i'm capturing in yuv422. unfortunately i don't know how to capture a frame in a lossless format with yuv422 pixels. png and bmp support rgb/bgr only afaik.

if you zoom on the test pattern you can...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-06-2017, 01:39 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,800
Posted By milosz
i don't know if it's exactly "unusually bad" -- i...

i don't know if it's exactly "unusually bad" -- i can confirm that there is chroma bleed present without the avt in the circuit but that might be "normal" vhs bleed.

trying again with the...
Forum: Restore, Filter, Improve Quality 02-06-2017, 12:47 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,800
Posted By milosz
Chroma bleed on capture?

hi all,

i'm noticing light chroma bleed on all my captures. i believe at least some of this is happening either at the card or the frame tbc level.

my workflow is

ag-1980p (recapped by...
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