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Spot|DSE wrote on 2/25/2005, 8:56 PM
Sounds like you might wanna use a Time Base Corrector before you capture, and capture via analog, so you can pre-process the footage before capturing. It would save you a ton of time.

As far as the scrolling rainbow, not much to be done about that. You can push the saturation, and perhaps use the Curves to enhance what little color you've got, but honestly?....it's worth looking at a different VCR for playback and getting your hands on a TBC to correct. There are also processors available to punch it up as well, used prior to capture.
Maybe you could post a still so some of us could take a whack at it?
farss wrote on 2/26/2005, 3:33 AM
Seen a lot of this and not just on VHS also on UMatic. SPOT is right and I'll be a bit stronger, don't waste your time trying to fix this in Vegas, well apart from dropping a B&W FX on it.
SOME of the problems can sometimes be fixed using motion blur, I've had quite a degree of success with this but only in some circumstances. Say you've got a tlaking head in a really locked down shot. Dial in heaps of MB and render that out. Anything with movement is going to look pretty much like a good acid trip but don't freek just yet.
Now you bring that back into a project and add the original track above and cutout the bit with the talking head, maybe add a little bit of MB to try to clean up the head if needed.
I'm sure you get the idea. At one time I had one amount of MB for the static background, one for the head that didn't move much and less for the lips.
Of course if there's any movement of the complete frame you're dead going down this path.
But the place to start is getting the best possible signal off the tape. TBCs are the place to start, the ones in D8 cameras are surprisingly good, for some stuff they do better than the one in my ADVC 300.
Also if it's really old tape clean the heads, old tapes can shed heaps of gunge including fungus.
Bob.