How to Improve Video Capture Quality

How to Improve Video Capture Quality
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This step may require additional filters for VirtualDub. See the previous section for filters available for VirtualDub.

White Balance Filter - Jim Leonard
- to correct for white balance problems.
- Example: when the video in general looks orange, blue or too dark.
- may occur when white balance is on automatic mode, so different types of light having different temperatures causes this problem
- this filter can also be used to adjust Hue, Saturation, Intensity, Brightness, Contrast

Deinterlacing filter
- used to remove the effect of interlacing, ie. when not all frames are processed.
- fast motion causes edges of objects to look jagged.
- the filter will also make the video look far sharper

Sharpening Filter
- used when video seem to have soft edges or lack detail.

Dynamic Noise Reduction
- used when video is grainy

Chroma Noise Reduction Filter
- used when there is chroma noise; ie where rainbow effects shimmer across the screen.

VHS filter - flaXen
- used when video has timing issues and skips a bit
- try using the Stabilize section of this filter only

For instructions on Video Capture using VirtualDub, see:
http://xtechnotes.blogspot.com/2007/07/notesvideocapture.html

VirtualDub filters plugins

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Filter pack from Dee Mon:

http://www.infognition.com/VDFilterPack/

Jim Leonard's White Balance filter

http://neuron2.net/whitebalance/whitebalance.html

flaXen filter

http://neuron2.net/flaxen/flaxen.html

To use this filter, install Virtual Dub, then install these plugins into the VirtualDub's plugins folder.

VirtualDub MPEG2 codecs

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To use the Virtual Dub and encode with the MPEG2, the following codes need to be installed.

Panasonic VfW DV codec

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/panasonic_dv_codec.htm 

 Adaptec VfW DV codec

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/adaptec_dvsoft_codec.htm