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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:40 am Post subject:
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Hi and thanks for any help you can provide.
I have a hauppauge winTV pvr pci II card that I'm using to capture old
VHS tapes. I've got one VHS tape that has sections of video that
appear to be "sped up". I.e. everything moves about 2X faster than
normal. During capture, all video does fine with the exception of
these "sped up" parts. They always come through completely distorted.
When played on a TV they display just fine.
So my question: is there anything I can do to capture this correctly?
Is my only option to take it to a professional?
I have an example of what I'm talking about at the link below. Note
the video is fine at the beginning and when it changes over to the sped
up portion the image deteriorates dramatically:
www.thegreatpuma.com/test.mpg
Thanks
Doug
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Mike S.
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 1:36 pm Post subject:
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In article <1131414225.214861.323060@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
<delphiprog@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi and thanks for any help you can provide.
I have a hauppauge winTV pvr pci II card that I'm using to capture old
VHS tapes. I've got one VHS tape that has sections of video that
appear to be "sped up". I.e. everything moves about 2X faster than
normal. During capture, all video does fine with the exception of
these "sped up" parts. They always come through completely distorted.
When played on a TV they display just fine.
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Sounds like the edge of your tape is damaged, such that the control track
(from which the VCR derives speed information) is unreadable in those
sections. You might try cleaning the stationary head in your VCR which
reads the control track, as it might make the difference. |
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:33 am Post subject:
Re: VHS to DVD distortion problems |
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Mike S. wrote:
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Sounds like the edge of your tape is damaged, such that the control track
(from which the VCR derives speed information) is unreadable in those
sections. You might try cleaning the stationary head in your VCR which
reads the control track, as it might make the difference.
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I am relatively new to this video editing. I think my first message
was unclear.
The sped up parts are intentional. When the video was edited 15 years
ago these sections were sped up by the person who created it. When
played on a TV they appear sped up as well, but are very clear; not
distorted like you see in my example.
I will still perform a head cleaning; the VCR prolly needs it anyway.
Thanks for the help
Doug |
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