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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: May 20 2012, 04:23 AM |
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I got my hands on an old tape of a school play that I was in in 1988. I had to swipe another VCR from a neighbor because the VCR I had would play then stop then power down. When hitting power again the tape would only eject from the machine. Basically it use to work but for some odd reason it doesn't now.
New problem. The neighbors VCR show ghosting big time from playing this old tape:
Example - notice the heads
http://rjschat.dyndns.org:8080/Paranoha/AP.../VDUB/Ghost.jpg
My other VCR didn't have this effect that bad and I hope this alternate VCR didn't mess up the tape any. Not my tape. I lost my copy back in 92/93 at a friend's house. I got this copy from an old friend of mine who was in the same school play as I.
Is there any way to take out this ghosting effect? I have to send the tape back this coming Thursday. Received it last week and asked for an extension.
Capturing this tape is difficult. A lot of programs don't recognize the audio from the VC500 even my Vegas isn't able to use the VC500 USB device. Vdub can somewhat use it but at half the frame rate and the video is speckled while no sound. No sound in NCH neither so it's a no-go The only program that I can use as a capping software is One Touch Capture which is solely for the VC500.
The AVI capture is at 352 X 240 with some jiggle in certain places and when in mpeg2 mode there is a degrade in quality. I don't know how to capture this sort of tape. I'm not doing too good at all here.
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| Abrazo |
| Posted: May 21 2012, 07:08 PM |
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Do you also have this ghosting effect when you connect the VCR to an LCD television ? Probably yes ?
Sometimes there is possibility on a VCR to change the display to "Natural", "Briljant", "Soft", ...
Do you have such an option (via the Remote Control) ? Eventually Google a bit for a user guide ...
Does it have something to do with the "Tracking" that is not regulated for that specific videocassette, mostly you can do this manually or automatically (also via the Remote Control).
In the specifications of the Diamond VC500 capturing device I see that it can capture NTSC (720x480) as well as PAL (720x576).
Audio should neither be a problem.
Maybe the article below can help you by trying to capture from your VCR to your pc, by using the VC500-device via VirtualDub:
http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act...=ST&f=4&t=20972
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Jun 21 2012, 08:46 AM |
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Can't believe I forgot about this thread.
Yes there was ghosting when watching the tape with that VCR on an LCD screen. That VCR had no visual settings to adjust on it. Tracking might had been auto, don't recall locating any tracking on the remote nor the deck itself. I don't have the deck anymore, gave it back to the owner last month.
Thanks for providing the article. I want to try with the VC500 again but my neighbor hasn't been around for a while so I can get that VCR back to play around with it and my VCR might still have that powering off and ejection problem as it did. Don't know what started that? It's like the VCR is confused with the loading and power functions.
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| Abrazo |
| Posted: Jun 21 2012, 03:43 PM |
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It is often the case that there is a bad contact from the power cable to power inputconnector on the VCR.
Internally the contacts get a little bit "burned". Eventually try with a similar power cable.
Once you get the VCR to power on and have a stable contact, than try to put in the videocassette.
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Jun 21 2012, 05:46 PM |
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That is hard wired. I don't have the expertise to work with that. |
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