Hi All,
I own honestech VHStoDVD 4 Deluxe. I tried this plug and play capture but it didn't go very well. Laggy video and video output quality could be better (despite the highest setting set). I have a 8mm camcorder directly plugged into the device. It has one video out (yellow) and one channel audio out (white). The Honestech device is this
http://www.honestech.com/main/vhs-to...deluxe-old.asp
So I searched the internet, and found out I could use this hardware combined to VirtualDub to capture video.
After having a look at the captured video, I wondered what was those horizontal lines, and discovered this was interlacing.... And so on for many other things observed.
I had questions/encountered issues, so googled a lot, hence learned a lot on the subject. So what was first intended to be plug and play work, is now consuming me a lot of time (which is ok for me since I like learning everyday). Still I consider myself a noob because I'm never 100% sure of what I'm doing.
First of all, I have a workflow question and was wondering if I'm proceeding ok:
1 Capture
Honestech Hardware
Virtual Dub Software - Video (Lagarith)
- Audio Uncompressed (Direct Stream)
I get audio sync issue, but it is fixed value so....
2 Edit (for audio)
Virtual Dub Software - Video (Direct Stream)
- Audio Uncompressed (Direct Stream) + Interleaving (value for Skew)
3 Deinterlacing
From web search, found Avisynth and QTGMC
VirtualDub
Avisynth script loaded
Here is the script
AVISource("filename_with_audio_corrected.avi")
AssumeTFF()
QTGMC( Preset="Slow" )
[*]Video (Fast Recompress)[*][*]Audio Uncompressed (Direct Stream)[*]
4 Encoding
I wish to use x264 encoding, and mp3.
Already did once, worked, but have ghosting (I think)...
So my first question would be:
Am I proceeding ok? Is there a step I could avoid to save some time or to have better quality?
My second question is about this (see images below). I thought this was chroma shift but after noticing it on many capture, I guess this is ghosting. I would like to confirm with you what is this phenomena.
This is an example of raw capture (interlaced)
http://1drv.ms/1LiBm3W
These are examples of deinterlaced video with qtgmc in virtualdub
Notice the halo (ghosting?) aside the man's shirt...
http://1drv.ms/1S8NaKJ
Notice the strange effect on the car's rear light (chroma shift or bleeding? Noise? Ghosting? I couldn't point out from web search...)
http://1drv.ms/1S8NqcK
Notice the Referee (edge of his pants showing on the boards, and white of the boards showing on his pants)
http://1drv.ms/1cN9rgC
All this being said, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks (a lot) in advance!