noise line from Hi8 conversion at frame bottom

CurtA wrote on 8/11/2008, 3:56 PM
I am using a Canopus ADVC 110 to convert Hi8 to digital for editing. I have VMS 8 Platinum. After conversion, there is a narrow "conversion noise line" at the bottom of the frame.

Apparently this is a normal part of the conversion and will not be seen when viewing the video on a TV. However if using for internet streaming etc. the line will be visible.

Does anyone know a way to remove this line? I have read about creating a black mask overlay for the frame border, but have no idea how to do this. Using the cropping tool would seem ti take off WAY to much of the frame.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Curt

Comments

MSmart wrote on 8/11/2008, 4:05 PM
If you want to block the bottom portion, use Generated Media, solid color, black and place it on the track above your video. Then use either Track Motion or Event Pan/Crop to postion the top edge down so that it just covers the bottom portion of your video.

To override the Pan/Crop snapping, hold down the Ctrl (or is it Alt) key when dragging, this will allow smoother/smaller pan/crop increments.

The generated media is probably best since you'll loose some resolution of your video (if you pan/crop) as it will be resampled when rendered.
CurtA wrote on 8/11/2008, 4:22 PM
Wow! Thanks for the quick response!!!

I'll have to enlist my 13 year old daughter to help me with this, as she is the family "expert"! LOL

Curt
Chienworks wrote on 8/12/2008, 6:41 AM
Personally i wouldn't bother with the mask unless you had a very large number of clips on the timeline that had a large variety of different formats. I use pan/crop directly on the clips themselves.

In pan/crop turn off the lock aspect ratio button. This is the one that looks like a smaller blue rectangle inside a large white one with a tiny black arrow joining the corners together. Now click on Height: and little up & down arrow buttons appear after the height value. Click the down arrow button twice to reduce the height of the frame. This will eliminate the top line and the bottom line from the original video. Continue reducing the height until you no longer see the noise at the the bottom of the frame.
CurtA wrote on 8/12/2008, 5:15 PM
Thanks for the reply!
I have basically no experience with VMS and will experiment with your method as well. Like I indicated above, my 13 year old daughter is the family "expert", so she'll help me with the initial "experiments". LOL

Sounds pretty easy though, as I am familiar with photo editing software and cropping etc.

Curt