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Originally Posted by rappy
the two tapes done to use as a bench mark of what can be done.
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The biggest limiting factor on your tapes is underexposure -- scenes that are dark, lacking color saturation, and heavily influenced by the color casts of artificial lights in the room. The most that can be done is to balance out exposure to see faces, reduce saturation to hide some of the color cast noise, and then fix the rest as best as can be done in Premiere or
VirtualDub (mostly Premiere). There's also some further NR that can be done in Avisynth and/or
VirtualDub, to remove color noise and just noise in general.
The audio can also have a lot of hiss, removed both by a good mixer before the capture, and through software after capture.
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The tutorial has an earlier version than what I have installed - 1.9.8. Can anyone verify the proper settings?
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VrtualDub's capture function hasn't changed since at least version 1.6.x. Don't use 1.10.x yet, stay on the 1.9.x branch.
The guide is still very accurate.
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When I do capture (1 min clips)- while I am capturing, the video looks like it's in slow motion. When I review the capture it's normal, but sometimes the audio is out of synch wight the video. What could be causing this?
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This might be an issue with your preview mode.
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Originally Posted by rappy
On a hardware note- I am thinking of adding a mixer to my equipment (Behringer 802) KP - is it worth while?
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The 802 is good, but the 1002B is much better. I'd get it for $110.
I like the 1002B because it has EQ on the RCA inputs, too. The 802 doesn't. To use EQ on the 802, you'll need to get RCA>2.5" stereo adapters. However, I've sometimes found noise issues with those wires. It's really an issue with the specific wires in use, more than anything else. Given the cost of quality wires, I'd just assume pay another $60 and get the RCA-friendly model instead, because I have a spool of quality RCA cabling.
Just buy what you can afford reasonably -- both units are quality.