Improving the Video (VHS capoture)

Sargan wrote on 2/10/2010, 5:19 PM
Help the beginner time ...

Converting VHS to DV AVI .... used VHS > TBC > ADVC300 > PC
Using VMS for capture.

I would like to try & improve the end result before I create the DVD’s ......... and ideally hope someone will give me a few pointers on what to adjust.
I have tried HSL, Colour Balance etc. ... but don’t seem to be able to improve the end result.

Colours are weak, except that hard reds have significant colour bleed, which I am told is typical and caused by Chromatic weakness within VHS signal.
Also some of the whites seem to alternate between white and a pale blue cast. (look at buildings, which were white)

I have put a short DIVX compressed version on:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/8bb1278c-e0a3-49c7-939d-bf197f7b82ad/test2-compressed

or http://tinyurl.com/yk8pu6v
Sorry about annoying twitter add first.

Can download or play.
(although it seems to convert to a Flash movie)

The full AVI & AC3 files there as well in same folder


It shows all 3 problems, would appreciate any help ... it’s the process I want to learn, not just to get the clip fixed.

BTW – I didn’t take this, it was by a Professional Video company.