Captured video has bar along bottom

lenwood wrote on 5/19/2006, 2:03 PM

Has anyone experienced a small bar that runs along the bottom edge of a captured video from 8mm? It seems to appear on my older 8mm anaolog tapes but not newer ones taped digitally .

BTW, you guys are the best with help!

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Andy C wrote on 5/23/2006, 11:46 AM

Hi lenwood,
If you are referring to a yellow-green bar then yes, I have the same. I had it in VMS4 as well as 6. I have no idea what causes it.
I use the pan/crop tool to keep it out of the picture. This also has the benefit of making the edges nice and straight - i.e. you lose the shaky Hi8 edges. I'm sure this also speeds the rendering time up.
HTH,
Andy.

billynmi wrote on 5/23/2006, 3:20 PM

Lenwood,May I ask how you captured your 8 mm and are you pleased with the results?
Thanks,
Billy

simssk wrote on 5/24/2006, 1:41 AM

Hi Lenwood, I've had the same problem working with my older 8mm analog videos.

I had read somewhere that using the pan/crop decreases the quality. Has anyone noticed this?

One solution I found that has really helped is the Clean Crop plug in from CreativEase. It was fairly inexpensive and worth the money. It adds pixels to the frames, leaving a clean line. I also had this problem usually on the bottom as well. Clean crop does a great job taking care of this problem.

Since I got a digital cam for Mothers Day, I don't have that problem with the newer videos. I'm guessing the size must be slightly off from an analog camera.