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[Ardend]

Hello all,

Im kinda new to the capturing video, but I have had no problems so far until now. Here's the deal. Im trying to capture dvd ready video of an anime vhs tape via a Pinnacle TV capture card through Svideo. When i read in the video, and burn the dvd, it plays fine on my set top box except one scene where it looks almost like the video is jumping back and forth between frames as it plays. It still plays (doesnt hang anywhere) but it looks like its stuttering back and forth between the last frame and the next as it goes. I looked at the encoded video on my harddrive and i noticed at that scene the video looks almost like its having some interlacing problems. so i tried recapturing with different interlace settings, tried reencoding the capture in tmpg, tried just about everything. the only way i can get a capture to not look that way is to capture in VCD format which does me no good. Anyone had this sort of thing happen? Anyone know what I mean? Anyone got any solutions? I wish i could easily grab a screen of the video so I can show you what i mean... any help would be great, thanks!

Mike

[dar1us]

Sounds strangly like BOB/WEAVE problems?

Is there a lot more motion in that scene?

Sounds weird

[theReal]

As a workaround you could open the bad scene with avisynth, run it through verticalreduceby2 then resize it up to full resolution again. Then you'd get only this one single scene with a lower resolution, the rest of the video would remain full resolution.


If you capture the whole tape to huffyuv avi, then you could do it like this:

Part1=avisource("video.avi").trim(0,x)
Part2=avisource("video.avi").trim([x+1},y).verticalreduceby2().bilinearresize(720,576)
Part3=avisource("video.avi").trim([y+1],0)
return Part1 + Part2 + Part3
where x is the last frame before the bad scene and y is the last frame of the bad scene.

Maybe you can also solve the problem by using swapfields() instead of verticalreduceby2().bilinearresize(720,576), or maybe some other miraculous commands (if you upload a small part of the bad scene then maybe some field-experts can find a solution for you)

[Ardend]

Hey gang,

So i thought maybe its just that show and tried to capture video from another tape and the whole episode is doing the same thing! Does it have something to do with capturing at a higher framerate than the tape is playing? Could it be motion related? These are things I cant change in the Pinnacle capturing program.. Is there another capture program i can use in conjunction with the pinnacle tv capture card? ARghh! I gotta figure this out, help please!

Ive uploaded the intro to the cartoon im trying to capture from tape. This is cut of the dvd ready file im trying to burn and you can see by watching it or viewing it frame by frame several scenes where it looks as though your seeing the odd fields from one frame and the evens from the next. How do i capture without that happening?! Thanks in advance for any help you can give! the link is below (the file is about 20 megs, sorry for the large size, but i wanted to give you a big enough chunk to see how much of a problem it is)

http://216.219.221.163/intro.zip