Adobe Premiere Sharpness/Brightness/Contrast Adjustment ?

[Coaster]

Hello Folks,

I am using a DataVideo Dac-100 AV to DV converter and Adobe Premiere v6.5 to capture old VCR VHS movies to my hard disc and ultimately record to DVD-R.

Some of the VCR VHS movies I am capturing are kind of old and the video needs some minor adjustment (sharpness/brightness/contrast). Is there any way during the capture process to adjust the sharpness, brightness and contrast of the file that is being captured.

Regards,
Coaster

 

[ipdave]

An expensive video processor would do the trick; if you find a way in Premier, Vegas, or Pinnacle to do it I'd like to know as well!

 

[celtic_druid]

Just frameseve your AVI with AVISynth to your MPEG2 encoder, that way you can easily adjust the brightness, contrast, luninance, gama, sharpen, blur, denoise, deblock, deinterlace, interlace, decomb, dedupe, etc. without the need for creating intermediate AVI's. Although if you are applying enough filters and doing multiple passes, you may still want to.

VirtualDub allows some such controlls when capturing, so I guess their maybe a DV program that does, however DV is supposed to be a lossless capture, therefor such adjustments would be somewhat counter productive.

 

[Coaster]

@ celtic_druid,

Thanks for making me aware of AviSynth.

I am a novice in this area of capturing VCR VHS movie tapes and converting to DVD-R. Perchance is there any tutorial explaining the use of AviSynth in conjunction with Adobe Premiere v6.5?

Regards,
Coaster

 

[celtic_druid]

In conjunction with Premiere? I was suggesting that after you capture the DV with Premiere (or whatever) you forget about it.

As for tutorials... I don't know, I guess avisynth.org would be a good place to start. However AVISynth comes with some really nice docs, some of the plugins however do not.