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VirtualDub : Best filter to correct bad capture from a VHS movie ???

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Eric HILAIRE

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Nov 2, 2000, 12:02:25 AM11/2/00
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Hi everybody!!!

I wanna capture bad quality VHS movies with VirtualDub, but I need to
know if where is a good filter to apply after the capture to obtain a
better quality ???

ThanXXX

eric.h...@ifrance.com

Donald Graft

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Nov 2, 2000, 8:02:44 AM11/2/00
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What is the nature of the quality degradation you are
experiencing? Remember that filters are seldom magic
bullets when the source material is poor.

Don

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Eric HILAIRE

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Nov 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/4/00
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Not easy to explain...
I just want to correct the poor typical VHS quality.
There isn't a general filter to apply for VHS captures ???


On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 13:02:44 GMT, "Donald Graft" <neu...@home.com>
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Avery Lee

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Nov 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/4/00
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eric.h...@free.fr (Eric HILAIRE) wrote:

>Not easy to explain...
>I just want to correct the poor typical VHS quality.
>There isn't a general filter to apply for VHS captures ???

Much of the damage done to a low-quality VHS recording is irreversible, and
thus any post-processing filters designed to clean up the glaring artifacts
are specific and highly configurable so you can choose the best tradeoff
between reducing noise and keeping signal. There is no magic algorithm to
clean up VHS artifacts, so you're going to have to figure out how much
chroma noise, poor horizontal sync, etc. is affecting your video and choose
your filters accordingly. Unfortunately, the best you're likely to do is
improve the video from "poor VHS" to "usual VHS."

>On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 13:02:44 GMT, "Donald Graft" <neu...@home.com>
>wrote:
>

-- Avery Lee (ule...@umail.ucsb.edu)
http://www186.pair.com/vdub/

VirtualDub 1.4c: AVI/MPEG-to-AVI processing utility with integrated capture.
Open source.

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