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@pmikep I have also been battling with .TS files. I recorded a streamed YT video (saved as a TS) and had all sorts of dramas with it; not one program (MEP, VideoRedo, VLC, Virtual Dub) on my my machine would open it; the HDD light just stayed on

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10 answers, most recent on 12/29/2020

RE: green fields in finished video

@johnebaker @blvigh @Scenestealer @CubeAce Exactly the same issue here. I get a green MPEG4 file if I export above HD 91920x1080), regardless of settings, when viewed in VLC Player. All files are fine viewed in Virtual Dub and VideoRedo. What I've

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13 answers, most recent on 10/25/2020

RE: please install the following codec to decode the format 'DV25'.

@JyrkiTapani-Lehikoinen Assuming you're capturing VHS or similar with your Dazzle, we need to know what codec Pinnacle is using. Is your DV25 AVI file the capture file, or have you converted the capture to it? If Pinnacle is capturing as DV25, you

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272 answers, most recent on 4/1/2021

RE: Movie Edit Pro 2021 is out - New features

@Scenestealer Hi Peter . . . . His comparison with Magix, or my comparison with his? . . . . This was in response to your comment - . . . have you tried Smart Copy recently, or Smart Render, to see what this will do compared to what Mike is doing in

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272 answers, most recent on 4/1/2021

RE: Movie Edit Pro 2021 is out - New features

@Scenestealer Hi Peter . . . . have you tried Smart Copy recently, or Smart Render, to see what this will do compared to what Mike is doing in Virtual Dub . . . . Looks like Smart Copy has an issue - tested 6 times with different .m2ts videos on

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272 answers, most recent on 4/1/2021

RE: Movie Edit Pro 2021 is out - New features

@johnebaker @pmikep Cuts only, no effects... John, have you tried Smart Copy recently, or Smart Render, to see what this will do compared to what Mike is doing in Virtual Dub? Peter

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19 answers, most recent on 8/26/2020

RE: VHS to digital via Firewire problem; MEP 2015

@Jim_H If you rendered them into an AVI format (as opposed to DV-AVI) they will be bigger. DV-AVI is 13gb/hour, whereas for example Lagarith (a lossless AVI format), is 30gb per hour. It will be better quality than a comparable DV-AVI export. In

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19 answers, most recent on 8/26/2020

RE: VHS to digital via Firewire problem; MEP 2015

@Jim_H My pleasure, Jim. Can't help with the settings; it depends a lot on the source VHS eg if it's dark, increase the brightness/contrast. Washed-out colour, crank up the saturation (although a lot of this can be done in MEP after you have

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21 answers, most recent on 7/19/2020

RE: Big AVIs-Displaying Audio Waveform

@AAProds Hi Alwyn . . . .Virtual Dub gives me a 8 or 16 bit audio option . . . . IMHO CD quality is the minimum quality I would aim for - ie 16 bit depth. Bit depth refers to the number of bits used to describe 1 sample of for example a 48kHz

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21 answers, most recent on 7/19/2020

RE: Big AVIs-Displaying Audio Waveform

@johnebaker @Scenestealer @CubeAce A related question: Virtual Dub gives me a 8 or 16 bit audio option. What would be the best for MEP? Is the "bit' value only related to bandwidth/file size (and therefore, I assume, quality)? In this example, the

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21 answers, most recent on 7/19/2020

RE: Big AVIs-Displaying Audio Waveform

@johnebaker @CubeAce @Scenestealer Thanks all for your inputs. As soon as I posted that Mediainfo analysis, I thought "hang on, that 96k audio doesn't sound right". So I did a recapture overnight with Virtual Dub but did it at 48khz (previously, I

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21 answers, most recent on 7/19/2020

Big AVIs-Displaying Audio Waveform

I'm doing some VHS transfers. I'm using Virtual Dub to capture my AVIs in Lagarith format. When I import them into MEP, no audio waveform is created, and there is no right-click option to create it after the file is on the timeline. These AVIs are

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23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry

@Scenestealer@Scenestealer Hi Peter, John I tried the Infognition plugin in Virtual Dub, along with several video cleaning filters, a couple of years ago and the results were very variable. At best it works with scenes of high contrast, high detail,

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23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry

nothing would beat Uncompressed or Lossless Lagarith if you could stick the enormous amounts of storage it would chew up to capture 3x 2hour tapes. @Scenestealer Gday Peter, Lagarith Lossless is 30gb her hour, so not a tall ask, storage-wise, these

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23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry

I'm not familiar with Virtual Dub - but I see it's been mentioned a number of times in this thread. I sometimes use other programs like Roxio and Corel Video Studio as outboard processors because they each have certain things I like. With Corel, I

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23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry

@Scenestealer Hi Peter, I started re-recording the VHS tapes the other day using the Roxio stick. I could not get MEP or VPX or anything else to properly read through the interface. They gave me an error. So, I used my laptop - no problem. I

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23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry

@browj2 @hdrechsel18 @CubeAce Hi John I'll give the old DV camera a try. However, what is the advantage of that over capturing using the USB convertor directly to the computer? It gives you a cheap easy way of capturing to a lowly compressed non

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23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry

@hdrechsel18 @emmrecs @browj2 @Scenestealer @CubeAce Go the USB stick. Everything I have read says DV is inferior. For example, it's an old thread but read this on

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23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry

@hdrechsel18 @emmrecs seriously consider whether it would be worth you investing in something like one of the Canopus (Grass Valley) range of hardware analogue to digital video convertors. This will allow you to convert the analogue footage from the

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19 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

RE: [Closed] DVD copy quality

@Mike-Gannon I used S-Video rather than Scart - does this make a difference, positive or negative? Absolutely use the S-video output from your player. VHS is terrible to work with; you need as much going for you as possible. Stepping back to the

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6 answers, most recent on 6/23/2020

RE: video and sound captured magix sent out of sync

@mark-perry Mark, re the first, I think you're being a bit harsh criticising MEP not capturing that VHS properly. That tape recording looks seriously corrupted and probably needs to be run through a TBC (Time-Based Corrector) between the VCR and the

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22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

See this site for NV's gift to the video editing world. It does an amazing job, particularly on the digitized film by cleaning up the video noise You can say that again! I'm most impressed by it's noise reduction. I installed the Virtual Dub plugin

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22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

Intuitively I had expected it would take longer for the program to trawl through a 13GB AVI file than e.g. a 2GB MP4 file of the same clip, @Richard-Curtis To illustrate the point that size isn't related to difficulty in editing, I'm currently

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No answers, created on 5/16/2020

Frameserving from Virtual Dub to MEP

Never thought I'd be asking this after all these years but I'm getting into some more VHS tapes and am trying to use Virtual Dub filtering for pre-processing before frameserving the video to MEP. I pulled out my Frameserving tute (attached) but it