VHS to Digital Question (editing MPEG2 encode)

[implexant]

All,

I got a Dazzle to convert my VHS tapes from the analog to digital. Well it ended up being a big mess so I took it back. Ended up getting a ADS Instant DVD USB 2.0. It works like a dream! The quality is as good as it's going to get, consider this is VHS we're dealing with

Just one problem. There is this little fuzzy gray/white/transparent line that's not very thick at the bottom of all the videos. There is also some black (space) around the edges that's annoying. I have the capture device hooked up with RCA cables. I'll be trying a new VCR and a SVideo cable tomorrow to see if that solves my problem. In the mean time...

Is there a way to crop the video so that that little bar and the black spacing doesn't appear on my final DVD product?

They provide me with the following software titles:

Ulead VideoStudio 7 SE
Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 SE
ADS Tech MPEG1 & 2 Capture Wiz
muvee autoProducer DVD Edition

Here is a link to an example of what I'm talking about:

720x480 MPG Sample (right click, save target as) 19.8MB

Any help is greatly appreciated!

TIA.

-Chris

[phenious]

fastest way I know is to use the Clip Fram feature in TMPGenc (Free online) in the wizard interface. You can clip the top and bottom parts or sides if you wish be gone annoying lines!

-: phenious :-

[implexant]

Quote:

Originally posted by phenious
fastest way I know is to use the Clip Fram feature in TMPGenc (Free online) in the wizard interface. You can clip the top and bottom parts or sides if you wish be gone annoying lines!

-: phenious :-

dude, your the man! I'm trying that as we speak.

-Chris

[implexant]

ok... it won't let me edit my MPEG2 file... only MPEG1.

What to do?

-Chris

[implexant]

Okay, I think I figured it out. Capture in MPEG2, edit using Pinnacle Studio 8, use DVD2AVI to convert to dv2, then use TMPGEnc to encode back to MPEG2 and cut off unwanted lines and black areas, then finally use the Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 SE to slap it all on a DVD.

That's quite a process. Looks like the 200+ hours of video I'll be converting will take a weeeee bit longer than I first anticipated

Thanks for the help phenious! You rock, like totally

-Chris

[implexant]

Ok, having some problems...

I take a MPEG2 file that's raw right from the VHS tape conversion. I then edit it using Windows Movie Maker 2, I then output to a NTSC DVD AVI file, I then use TMPGEnc to cut off unwanted lines, clean up the noise in the video, and convert to MPEG2 once again. After that I take it and put the video into Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 SE and then select the "replace audio" option. Since TMPGEnc make me a m2v and wav file, the video and audio are seperate from each other.

Now here's my problem...

The audio is just about 1 second off of the video, making it very, very annoying to watch, and completely unacceptable. The only I've found to remedy this is to import the MPEG2 file that TMPGEnc created into Ulead VideoStudio 7 and then add the wav file to the project. Then encode the video back to MPEG2 once again. This is a major pain since I'm obviously encoding the darned little file at least three times. When we're talking about 120min videos, this is a major waste of time.

Do you have any ideas? Is there a way to get TMPGEnc to encode the video and audio together?

I'm at my witts end with all of this encoding. HELP!

-Chris