Hello!
I am using a Diamond VC500 and a Panasonic NV-FS200 to capture a few old PAL VHS tapes. It worked great so far, but with one tape I get some bad flickering issues. The flickering only appears in a particular old section (footage from late 80s/early 90s) of a "compilation" of old videos, but during those ~30min of the 3hours it's pretty much all the time with only few pauses. The parts before and after look fine.
It seems to me the capture card is the culprit and can't handle the input, because when watching it on TV (via a Thomson DTH 8551) it seems stable and perfectly watchable. Check the attachment for a comparison. Also, when enabling TBC on my FS200 during those same sections I get pretty bad stuttering on TV with little effect on my capture footage.
Is there any possibilty to fix this problem on the softwareside or is there no other way than getting additional hardware or a different capture card? If so what would you suggest? Since it's basically the last VHS left I don't really want to spend a lot of money (say <150$). I tried using the S-Video output of my Thomson DTH 8551 to see if I could get better quality that way, but unfortunately I didn't get any image at all. Tried different
VirtualDub versions and 2 different PCs with win10 and 11. No difference.
Appreciate any help.
Thanks!
WalterR
