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Gear / Technical Help => Photo / Video Recording => Topic started by: t4oo6l on July 25, 2006, 12:22:57 PM

Title: Artifacts added to video during digital transfer?
Post by: t4oo6l on July 25, 2006, 12:22:57 PM

I recently had a filmer friend of mine transfer one of his tapes, an old vhs master from 92.  He had it professionally transferred and he also did another digital transfer himself via dazzle dvd.  Exactly what was done I don't know.  But on both transfers there seems to be this grayishness all over the place, like the contrast was messed up and way too low or something like that.  Is this common? Does that happen on digital transfers sometimes from vhs (master) to dvd?  If so, can I clean it up via vegas video or some other program without really ruining the recording?

Thanks for any iput.

Title: Re: Artifacts added to video during digital transfer?
Post by: guitard on July 27, 2006, 11:48:18 AM

Quote from: t4oo6l on July 25, 2006, 12:22:57 PM

I recently had a filmer friend of mine transfer one of his tapes, an old vhs master from 92.  He had it professionally transferred and he also did another digital transfer himself via dazzle dvd.  Exactly what was done I don't know.  But on both transfers there seems to be this grayishness all over the place, like the contrast was messed up and way too low or something like that.  Is this common? Does that happen on digital transfers sometimes from vhs (master) to dvd?  If so, can I clean it up via vegas video or some other program without really ruining the recording?

Thanks for any iput.

How does the original tape look?  Are you saying the original looks fine, but after the transfer this analog noise shows up in the picture?

I'd start here for how you can correct this in Vegas (you'll have to sign up by leaving your email address):

http://vasst.com/article.aspx?id=b6ae8dc8-1929-4047-9ce9-d8621e39d313&type=1