Capture Old S-VHS leaves lines on video.

kirkdickinson wrote on 12/14/2002, 9:06 PM
I plugged in my old JVC S-VHS into my Sony VX-2000 and recorded desired clips to DV. I didn't see any problem with the copied scenes. I placed them on the timeline in VV and when I play them there is a black bar covering several pixels on the left side of the footage.

I also noticed that there is also some very ugly glitchy static lines on the very bottom of the footage. Every piece of footage that came into the project that way looks the same.

What is the best way to bring this old footage into VV? I will soon need to completely redo an old 2 hour video and will be needing to bring in a lot of S-VHS footage.

Thanks,

Kirk

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 12/14/2002, 9:22 PM
From your description the black bars at the right and bottom would fall outside the border area and not show on any TV. Have you set the Match Output Aspect switch? Have you tried looking with safe areas turned on for the preview window?
Chienworks wrote on 12/14/2002, 10:00 PM
This is quite normal. Analog video doesn't quite fill the DV frame, and it often has glitchy things around the edge. I usually crop the top and bottom 4 pixels on analog clips.
kirkdickinson wrote on 12/14/2002, 11:27 PM
There isn't any black bar on the bottom, only the left side. (guess I am dyslexic and had to fix the right/left error in my original post)

The glitches on the bottom are not at the very bottom, they are at least a dozen pixels up from the bottom and appear to be a row of pixels that are completely out of synch with the rest.

Kirk
Tyler.Durden wrote on 12/15/2002, 7:16 AM
Hi Kirk,

If you can, please post a still-frame to show the problem...

The black area may be the method of TBC stabilization for the SVHS...

...the lines at the bottom sound like either a piece of crud on a tape-guide in the SVHS deck or the SVHS deck having the edit-mode active (throws off the vertical sync).

Do you see the problems just playing the SVHS directly into a monitor?


HTH, MPH

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Spot|DSE wrote on 12/15/2002, 4:15 PM
This is usually due to one of 2 things coming from VHS or Super 8;
1. head alignment or tape stretch
2. Time correction/TBC
You'll nearly *always* see this coming from analog tape in some fashion. If it's just at the bottom of the screen, that's all it is. Crop in about 3% and it will disappear.
kirkdickinson wrote on 12/15/2002, 6:54 PM
I can post a still frame tomarrow. I don't have VV on my computer at home, only the one at work.

I double checked the tape and the original SVHS doesn't have the glitch and the DV tape played through the TV has it. The DV LCD is so small that it isn't visible unless you look very closely.

Would a VCR/DV combo like this
http://www.planetjapan.org/content/wv-dr7.html
Do a better job of the Analog to DV conversion?

Thanks,

Kirk