Video 8 capture but tape is not centered

jonfog · 5th October 2007, 20:23

Hi, I'm capturing my old Video8 tapes via a Canopus ADVC55 unit and WinDV. It mostly works okay.
But I have one problem, on some of my videos the tape isn't centered. That makes the picture shift right to left slightly causing a slightly blurred picture. It can be easily seen by watching the right or left black edge.
Now I wonder if there is some good solution to this, either by a commercial program (ouch) or some filter to for instance VirtualDub?

JohnnyMalaria · 5th October 2007, 23:32

Can you post some example frames?

Mug Funky · 6th October 2007, 05:09

adjust tracking? the tapes were probably recorded with different tracking, or on a different device.

apart from that you could hunt down a TBC, but that may be more trouble than it's worth (sometimes they do jack-all on VHS signals).

generally once the video is digitised there's not much that can be done for timebase errors.

jonfog · 6th October 2007, 09:17

I'm playing the tapes on the same camera I recorded them on.
On the attached frames, look at the black edge in the upper right hand corner.
I was thinking there was some sort of intelligent detection of this edge and somhow realigning it.

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jonfog Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2	Video 8 capture but tape is not centered Hi, I'm capturing my old Video8 tapes via a Canopus ADVC55 unit and WinDV. It mostly works okay. But I have one problem, on some of my videos the tape isn't centered. That makes the picture shift right to left slightly causing a slightly blurred picture. It can be easily seen by watching the right or left black edge. Now I wonder if there is some good solution to this, either by a commercial program (ouch) or some filter to for instance VirtualDub?

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Mug Funky interlace this! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: i'm in ur transfers, addin noise Posts: 4,555	adjust tracking? the tapes were probably recorded with different tracking, or on a different device. apart from that you could hunt down a TBC, but that may be more trouble than it's worth (sometimes they do jack-all on VHS signals). generally once the video is digitised there's not much that can be done for timebase errors. __________________ sucking the life out of your videos since 2004

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jonfog Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2	I'm playing the tapes on the same camera I recorded them on. On the attached frames, look at the black edge in the upper right hand corner. I was thinking there was some sort of intelligent detection of this edge and somhow realigning it. Attached Images

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JohnnyMalaria Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 602	Can you post some example frames?