VHS to DVD - Filters and cleanup

FatFingerTony wrote on 11/9/2004, 6:59 PM

I'm attempting to archive all of my family VHS tapes to DVD. I've recorded the VHS tape to the computer by running it through my Sony D8 camcorder then from the camcorder to the pc via firewire. Everything works and records great, leaving me with an AVI file. I wanted to edit the video and clean it up some, the VHS tape is old and the quality is poor.

My question is this: How should I go about cleaning up the low video quality from the VHS files in Vegas 5 trial? What filters should I use? If this works well and is relatively easy, I have no problem buying Vegas and DVD Architech.

Thanks for your help

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johnmeyer wrote on 11/9/2004, 7:10 PM

Vegas really doesn't have any filters that are designed to clean VHS chroma, temporal, and spatial noise. The usual tools for this are VirtualDub and AVISynth. There is an adaptation of a filter for VirtualDub that works, but it crashes Vegas, so until the author fixes that, I cannot recommend it.

Do an "OR" search in this forum on my user name "VirtualDub AVISynth". You will find lots of explicit instructions.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/9/2004, 7:34 PM

I run all of my VCR captures through VirtualDub using the Dynamic Noise Reduction filter and it seems to clean things up quite nicely. As John Meyer suggests there are several good plug-ins for VirutalDub to clean up VHS tapes. I just find DNR to be my favorite.

~jr

johnmeyer wrote on 11/9/2004, 8:58 PM

Here are some links to threads that may be helpful:

Vegas Video Denoise

VirtualDub Filter Chain