Color issues in VHS video, editing issue after capture?

[billybatts]

I'm having problems with certain blues/greens in my tapes (picture samples included). It's the worst when it comes to animation. What's causing this? I'm using a pretty good condition JVC S7600U VCR with a USB-Live2 Video Capture device (could this be my problem?). When I plugged the VCR directly into my HDTV, I noticed these issues, but they were less pronounced and cleaner looking.

Also, I captured in lossless AVI (Lagarith) using AmaRecTV 3.10 (YUY2, 720x480 @ 29.97 FPS). When I convert to H.264 MKV using HandBrake, I'm getting a 4:2:0 chroma subsampling. Why is this? Is there something wrong with the Lagarith codec or AmaRecTV itself, where it's giving me a bad lossless copy? Or is HandBrake specifically causing this problem? How can I get the end result to be 4:2:2, which is what VHS should be?

Can anyone help me with these issues?

[lordsmurf]

Chroma noise.

Where did the VCR come from?
If eBay, not surprised whatsoever, lots of dud decks on there -- including all the BS "tested" and "working" units that do not function properly, and had no real testing (seeing lights, and playing a ratty old copy of TMNT, is not tested).

How did you determine it is "pretty good condition"?

There unit may be bad, heads not good.

Your HDTV has some % of NR, which is why.

[billybatts]

Quote:

Originally Posted by lordsmurf

Chroma noise.

Where did the VCR come from?
If eBay, not surprised whatsoever, lots of dud decks on there -- including all the BS "tested" and "working" units that do not function properly, and had no real testing (seeing lights, and playing a ratty old copy of TMNT, is not tested).

How did you determine it is "pretty good condition"?

There unit may be bad, heads not good.

Your HDTV has some % of NR, which is why.

It came from eBay. I determined it by how it was working and how my other footage looked, which was pretty good, but looks like it isn't as good as I thought it was.