VHS to DVD post capture processing recommendations please

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I have been capturing video at 352x576 from PAL VHS video source - I
capture to avi files using the huffy compression - had various bits of
advice but have settled on Fly2000 as the capture app - using a cheap
Philips chipped capture/TV card - I post process the avi into DVD
compliant files using TMPG 2.5 - then author the results using TMPG
authorware. Results are pretty good, probably good enough but when I have
now come to the point of actually burning the final disks I decided to
ask fro peoples thoughts on the post processing filters that can be used.

In TMPG you get the option of using Smooting, denoising, colour
correction (simple and advanced) etc. I am sure there are other Recoding
bits of software that also have various filters - what I need to know is
what other people do and why - I have been using the denoising filter in
TMPG - this adds hugely to the processing time and I am not sure if it is
worth using or not - I am only concerned with ending up with a file that
will be viewed on a TV not a computer - I burn the files to CD's or DVD's
and play them on a standard DVD player.

I have noticed in general that files can look VERY different when viewed
on a TV as opposed to a PC Monitor - transferring VHS is such a huge
investment of time I would just like to make some sensible decisions
before committing myself and deleting the raqw captures - any input from
anyone with some experience would be great.

Thanks

 

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On 05 Jan 2005 17:57:30 GMT, Ken Frost
<oldfrostyNOSPAM@btinternet.com> wrote:

>I have been capturing video at 352x576 from PAL VHS video source - I
>capture to avi files using the huffy compression - had various bits of
>advice but have settled on Fly2000 as the capture app - using a cheap
>Philips chipped capture/TV card - I post process the avi into DVD
>compliant files using TMPG 2.5 - then author the results using TMPG
>authorware.

Same as I have been doing, only with iuVCR as my capturing program.

>In TMPG you get the option of using Smooting, denoising, colour
>correction (simple and advanced) etc. I am sure there are other Recoding
>bits of software that also have various filters - what I need to know is
>what other people do and why

I, and surely many as me, do use VirtualDub. There is an enormous
quantity of filters available for it. The combination of a "dynamic
noise reduction" filter and a "static noise reduction" one, is the
core processing, though one can add a "chroma noise reduction", or a
"sharpen" filter if the case be. These work on the Avis, before
encoding to mpeg, and should be faster than Tmgpenc's "denoiser".

 

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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:21:07 +0100, Bariloche
<bariloche@bariloche.com> wrote:

>On 05 Jan 2005 17:57:30 GMT, Ken Frost
><oldfrostyNOSPAM@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>>I have been capturing video at 352x576 from PAL VHS video source - I
>>capture to avi files using the huffy compression - had various bits of
>>advice but have settled on Fly2000 as the capture app - using a cheap
>>Philips chipped capture/TV card - I post process the avi into DVD
>>compliant files using TMPG 2.5 - then author the results using TMPG
>>authorware.
>
>Same as I have been doing, only with iuVCR as my capturing program.
>
>>In TMPG you get the option of using Smooting, denoising, colour
>>correction (simple and advanced) etc. I am sure there are other Recoding
>>bits of software that also have various filters - what I need to know is
>>what other people do and why
>
>I, and surely many as me, do use VirtualDub. There is an enormous
>quantity of filters available for it. The combination of a "dynamic
>noise reduction" filter and a "static noise reduction" one, is the
>core processing, though one can add a "chroma noise reduction", or a
>"sharpen" filter if the case be. These work on the Avis, before
>encoding to mpeg, and should be faster than Tmgpenc's "denoiser".
I second virtualdub.
Plenty of built in and third party filters.
And you can frame serve to tmpgenc, no need for intermediate AVI.
Dave

 

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davexnet02 <davexnetzerotwo@hooya!.com> wrote:
: I second virtualdub.
: Plenty of built in and third party filters.
: And you can frame serve to tmpgenc, no need for intermediate AVI.

I recommend AVISynth. It's more flexible although it takes a while to learn.
I still haven't figures what the best filters to use. Go to doom9.org's forums.

--Leonid

 

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On 7 Jan 2005 06:14:54 GMT, Leonid Makarovsky <venom@csa3.bu.edu>
wrote:

>I recommend AVISynth. It's more flexible although it takes a while to learn.

Actually, besides having its own plugins, Avisynth can use VirtualDub
filters, and Tmgpenc shall encode .avs files, so you can even avoid
frameserving from VirtualDub. But it's an "artisan" kind of thing.