VHS capture - help with severe dropout (I think!)
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Hi all.
I have acquired some old family VHS tapes which I would like to digitise. This is my first attempt at this so the learning curve is steep. I have spent quite a lot of time browsing and reading various threads on this forum (a very impressive repository of knowledge). These have been particularly enlightening regarding the issues I am experiencing: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...nes-video.html http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...dot-crawl.html However, I have reached a point where I think I need an expert to take a look at my results, particularly with regards the severe dropout artefacts I am getting. My setup is as follows:
The problem: Based on the highly detailed responses in the above threads by lordsmurf (I'm really hoping you'll dispense some of your sage advice in my direction!), I think my problem is an extreme case of magnetic dropout. I have 13 tapes with varying amounts of footage - all except 1 (referred to as Tape 5 from now) exhibit extreme dropout. What I've done so far:
My conclusions so far:
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Apologies for the long post - I've tried to anticipate the obvious questions so I don't waste others' time. Thanks in advance for any help/guidance/advice. |
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Doesn't look like dropouts to me. Looks more like an S-VHS tape played in a VHS machine (but your VCR is S-VHS, so presumably that isn't it).
Your sample is interlaced but encoded in progressive mode, which makes things slightly difficult. But one thing is still clear when deinterlacing is applied: every bottom field is "okay" (still bad), while every top field is completely screwed up. This is likely why it looks "okay" when you pause: only one field is being displayed. Deinterlaced, here is field 38 and the very next field. With the VCR connected to your TV, you should see the image rapidly flashing like this. (The red arrows point to what I would call an actual dropout line.) Attachment 4965Attachment 4966 Assuming the tape was recorded correctly in the first place, it seems one of your VCR's playback heads is faulty. BTW, your video is PAL but is inexplicably encoded at 30fps with duplicates instead of 25fps. |
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Thanks Goldwingfahrer and msgohan.
msgohan, I have tweaked a few settings to correct the frame rate and interlacing. Is the attached sample less "difficult" to diagnose? (I want to remove as many variables as possible). Quote:
Your diagnosis has given me hope that, with the help of the expertise on this forum, there may be a way to rectify this issue and get some decent quality video from the tapes. On that basis, I'm going to try and source another VCR to try, and I'm also going to drop the $20 on premium membership to get the best support I can! Thanks so far. |
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Then my other thought is that perhaps this one tape is recorded in a different mode than the others (SP vs LP, or maybe VHS vs S-VHS even). |
Goldwingfahrer - thanks, I now have MediaInfo. Very useful!
I think the problem with the encoding is down to the software I'm using which shipped with USB 2.0 capture device I'm using - VideoGlide: https://www.echofx.com/videoglide.html. The 'Capture' module seems to provide a decent level of control over the codec but only seems to capture to .mov format. I've been using the accompanying 'Exporter' module to convert it to a more web friendly format (MP4) but that provides very limited control over the codec and uses a different codec to the original .mov file. Any suggestions for:
Finally, I've sourced another VCR (maybe 2) from my mother-in-law which I'll be collecting in a couple of hours so more tests coming soon! |
I've seen people mention QuickTime Animation as a lossless codec on Mac that is well-supoorted. It will be preferable to capturing to a lossy format, if your capture software or another software allows it.
Glad to hear you were able to get another VCR for tests without having to buy one. |
Success - the hypothesis, diagnosis and prognosis where all correct!
I wasn't able to use my in-law's VCR as I don't have the necessary adaptors to connect its outputs to the capture device. However, my in-law's neighbour lent me a Sharp 6 head VCR and that is working a treat. The quality of footage I am getting now is much better than I'd initially hoped for! I also remembered that I have a license for Apple's video editing suite (Final Cut Pro X, Compressor and Motion) from when I worked for Apple so I tried transcoding the captured footage using Compressor and am getting great results. So I'm now going through the time consuming process of digitising 13 videos. I will then transcode them to MP4 for archiving. I also propose to edit all the best bits into a single, shorter movie with captions, titles and perhaps a soundtrack and I may also author a DVD with chapters to make it easy to access and play specific sequences/events. Since I will be editing the footage, I have chosen to capture using the DV PAL codec (Quicktime Animation is not available). This gives me the best quality capture of all of my options and I understand it uses intraframe compression which is better for editing than interframe (correct?). Please feel free to add and recommendations, tips, cautions at this point! Thank you msgohan, lordmsurf, and Goldwingfahrer for your help. I can't say enough how grateful I am for your help in getting some good quality digital versions of these old family videos. They will be treasured by myself and my family. |
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Attachment 4973 "YUV422" is uncompressed: the same quality as lossless, but much larger. "None" is uncompressed, but it may be converted to RGB which would be bad. If you're going to capture to DV, archive the DV captures IMO. If these are full 2-hour tapes, 13 of them stored as DV would be 13 * 2 hr * ~13 GB/hr = ~338GB. A 1TB portable drive can be had for very cheap these days. Quote:
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