Can lordsmurf grade my capture quality?
 

404 ..... http://transfer.notkiska.pw/5dsiu/%60.mp4

Enjoy the Show

@lordsmurf

Why have one guy share their thoughts when you can have two!

Well can we get an uncompressed clip and not a processed version?

Also the section of the stop motion planets spinning around is rather stuttery at parts, must be dropped frames.

- For the first 30 frames, it has image boucne/jitter
- The JVC blue screen seems to have extreme halo around the F-1
- The JVC menu blue seems oversaturated, but sometimes PAL menus are that way.
- At frame 482, that's a nasty timing error, as the on-screen enters the image. That suggests lack of frame TBC, though not necessarily. Factors can be at play.
- More jitter around frame 661.
- At FHE logo, obvious deinterlaced, with a fuzzed/outline effect, often something you see with bad frame rate conversion. That may be source, not capture. DIC cartoons especially had this problem in E/I '00s U.S. broadcasts, probably from PAL masters.
- Getting into next intro, Warning, still deinterlaced, though better.
- Baby Einstein Presents slide-in is jerky, suggests lost frames somewhere at pre-capture sources handling, or at capture.
- Starting near frame 7160 darks are crushed, no amount of digital proc amp (software proc amp) can recover. Again, maybe at capture time, or maybe from source. I'd need more information
- Around from 7925, the "frog wheel", interlace artifacts everywhere, from ghosting to jaggies to comb lines left.
- Overall, saturation seems hot. Likely contrast pumped, which creates black-than-blacks and high saturation.

Could I enjoy this small? Yes.
Could I enjoy this marge? Unsure.

Would some spots annoy me? Yes.
Mostly "unexpected motion" (jitter/bounce, jerky slide-in), few bad interlace spots. Your eyes and brain know something is wrong, much like "uncanny valley" for AI.

And I have to say, musically, this was probably the most enjoyable sample clip I've seen in years (10-15?). :)

What is the workflow?
What sort of feedback were you looking for? Did I give it?

Can Lordsmurf grade my VHS capture?
 

I can do that, and will.

But can I also get a copy of the actual capture file? Put it on Google Drive, iCloud, One Drive. I think Youtube is doing a bad deinterlace job. Or did you deinterlace that yourself?

I see some errors that I can likely help you overcome. I sometimes run into that on my own old VHS cartoon recordings.

Feels like some kid making shit post joke-y kind of captures of whatever random stuff they are into. Especially if you read his community posts. So I do not know how honest this guy is.. kind of reeks like a little kid messing around.
I'd personally ignore this.
This guy comes across as an annoying kid, either that or somebody who isn't mentally straight. Guess we were all like that when we are young, but there's a point in your life where you need to act mature.

Im a girl, dont assume my gender

http://streamable.com/7ltgv9

I try not to ignore anybody, and help everybody that wants it. :salute:

Remember, I even helped Gamemaniaco (and all his aliases), for years, about a decade ago. He grated on the nerves of many, even me at times. But I saw value in his questions, and I gave him answers.

Nice to meet you. :tiphat:

That's still a compressed video.
Hmm...
What are you using for a capture card, and what software? (I have a feeling you're going to say OBS, which would explain much of what I see here.)

Im using the hdmi output of dmres45v with a elgato hd with virtualdub

Hmmm... :hmm:

- What VCR are you using?
- Are these original TV recordings, or trade tapes (copies of copies)?
- Can I get the lossless AVI that was captured, not the MP4/streaming version?
- Are you NTSC?

1- dmr es45v
2- trade tapes sp mode
3- I recorded in mp4
4- I am ntsc

Am I doing something wrong?
 

Hello,

Did some digging and it led me here as apparently there are VHS capturing gurus here.

So my girlfriend gave me a VHS tape as a slightly tongue-in-cheek gift last Christmas with the title "A Good Movie" written in Sharpie on the label.

She and I have a passion for collecting and watching VHS tapes. She actually got these videos off YouTube and grabbed a random assortment of videos and recorded it on tape.

I just used a recorder to digitize the tape as my VCR has a dirty mode switch + some mechanical issues. I wanted to keep a recording for now.

Just wanting to know if this is a good capture before I set the VCR aside with the tape while I invest in a Panasonic? This one is a JVC. But I avoid the funai

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Here's a fun fact about moderation: you can sees versioning of posts.

In this thread, this was posted:
then this:
So, Aya_Rei, you were right. And I don't have time for games. :mad:

it was because I created a new account because I no longer use that name, and I was like "oh shit I used the wrong name" so I feigned a comment

You don't have time for games? You surely have steam

Nobody wants someone on here trolling.

The accounts have been merged.

No. Never have, probably never will. No time for games. I got old and boring, that's life.

Thanks, if you don't believe me I posted on Baldrick's thread to delete my videohelp account so I could use another name

Since you now know my other thread here's what I use to capture my VHS. It's not the LordSmurf Seal of Approval but here:

- JVC HRXVC27
- Connected to Funai SV2000 DVD recorder with composite
- Connected to Dazzle with S Video
- Pinnacle Studio for Dazzle
- Deinterlace with HandBrake

This is a cheap investment VHS encode, I didn't mention my setup in my post to see how you would grade it. But it's better than when I used the same VCR, a RCA to HDMI, and a cheap generic HDMI capture card with OBS in widescreen. The S Video looks sharper with the Dazzle when I chain it to the DVD recorder.

I know you hate Dazzles, but I am not shelling out $1000 to get a TBC and whatever as it was just a hobby to digitize some VHS tapes every now and then. At least it isn't Easycap or Elgato

The real crappy Dazzles are the ones which are sold on Amazon. While there's a driver that works on Windows 10 and Windows 11, Pinnacle (or should I say Corel) did an absolute horrible job getting the word out. The Amazon model uses a different chipset so it uses a different driver so the video is pixellated but works fine on Windows 7.

The disc that they ship that Dazzle with is also broken, as you have to do an online update to update the driver. That somehow breaks the registration info and it prompts you for reregistration, when the Dazzle doesn't even have registration info.

Why they have an online based installer which has the correct driver, yet doesnt link that on their site directly and I had to find it on google, is beyond me.

When I got a panasonic the picture was sharper but it was worse less vivid color

Multiple accounts to troll = ban.

Larsenv
aka BitcrushdBuzzLightyear
aka kawaii
aka Tomball