I've been converting a wedding video from VHS to DVD and the original video is horrid. Video was probably shot and editied SHVS or VHS but the intro and credits had the level way, way too hot. On a VHS system this causes line tearing on the trailing edges of the high contrast titles. As the titles fade up it gets worse and goes away as they fade down but even without the titles some of the high contrast shots used in the background also suffer. Fortunately the actual video itself is OK, well about as good as it gets for VHS.
I've had a few experts pontificate over it but as the vision has been copied that way there's no way to fix it in the analogue domain.
I was about to give up on this or maybe just do new intros and credits, quite a tedious job. Then I realised the tearing shifts between each frame. So by adding 4 frames of MB across the whole title sequence and keyframing it up to around 10 when the titles are at full brightness, as if by magic the problem is dramatically reduced.
Now the background vision does get a lot of blur during fast pans and zooms but its only a background and as it was shot with a tripod, once the shot becomes static it becomes noticably clearer. Also as I'm only applying a lot of blur when the titles are up the eye isn't watching the background so much anyway. Also they're all wide shots with only trees or flags moving so the MB is totally unnoticable when the shots are static.
Of course this isn't really magic but it does show how useful some of the tools in Vegas are combined with a little lateral thinking.
I've had a few experts pontificate over it but as the vision has been copied that way there's no way to fix it in the analogue domain.
I was about to give up on this or maybe just do new intros and credits, quite a tedious job. Then I realised the tearing shifts between each frame. So by adding 4 frames of MB across the whole title sequence and keyframing it up to around 10 when the titles are at full brightness, as if by magic the problem is dramatically reduced.
Now the background vision does get a lot of blur during fast pans and zooms but its only a background and as it was shot with a tripod, once the shot becomes static it becomes noticably clearer. Also as I'm only applying a lot of blur when the titles are up the eye isn't watching the background so much anyway. Also they're all wide shots with only trees or flags moving so the MB is totally unnoticable when the shots are static.
Of course this isn't really magic but it does show how useful some of the tools in Vegas are combined with a little lateral thinking.