I've done *a lot* of reading on this forum over the years. I finally got together a solid VHS transfer setup this year:
JVC SR-V10U > Datavideo TBC-1000 > Diamond ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB >
VirtualDub (using sanlyn's guide)
I'm fairly pleased with the captures and encodes I'm doing of some family home movies, but I wanted to solicit feedback from the community.
I'm still a novice at this and I am red-green colorblind. I only point out my colorblindness to drive home how useless I am at judging color. I do not intend to perform any color correction on these family home movies for a number of reasons I won't get into.
I've attached four files to this post - the raw capture and the encode for two clips, which go right into the other. They are from a ~1985 VHS tape and I believe the camcorder was a rental. The focus is not the best, as was likely common at the time. The splits were done based on key frame positions from the encodes. The capture clips were generated using
VirtualDub and the encode clips using mkvmerge.
To perform the encode, I dropped this .avs file:
Code:
AVISource("V:\directory\VHS1.ATI.USB.02.TRIMMED.avi")
AssumeTFF()
ConvertToYV12(interlaced=true)
QTGMC(preset="Faster",TR2=3,EZDenoise=6,denoiser="dfttest",ChromaMotion=true,border=true,ChromaNoise=true,DenoiseMC=true,GrainRestore=0.3,FPSDivisor=2)
Crop(0,0,0,-10).AddBorders(0,4,0,6) # crop(crop_left,crop_top,-crop_right,-crop_bottom)
into this .bat file:
Code:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\x264\x264-r3107-a8b68eb.exe" --preset=placebo --profile high --sar=10:11 --crf=14 --output "%~1.mkv" "%~1"
I've encoded this capture many times, trying a multiple sets of QTGMC options based on other's posts and recommendations. I am using Avisynth 2.6 and the most recent x264 encoder.
There are a ton of Avisynth plugins out there and beyond QTGMC, cropping and bordering(for eventual sharing via YouTube), I'm unsure what this could benefit from. Any thoughts or suggestions?