On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Matt Penna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have an eyeTV 250 Plus (and the latest version of the eyeTV software) that > I am using to record old laserdiscs and videotapes before the media become > unusable. My problem is, while the results are very good, I'm getting some > jagged edges on the recorded videos. It's not a big issue in live action, but > it is especially problematic in traditional, hand-drawn animated cartoons. > It's noticeable even at the native resolution of the video (640x480), so it > looks very poor if the video is enlarged.
Garbage in, garbage out. Videos and laserdiscs had a distinct advantage about them: the CRT TVs you watched them on were so blurred you could get away with crappy resolution. The images recorded to older formats are done specifically for low-resolution devices, so when you watch them on pixel-perfect monitors today, you catch all the tricks they used, like half-vertical resolution and bad 30-to-25 or 24-to-30 fps conversions. You could try a blur filter or something similar, or smear Vaseline on your monitor/HDTV. -- Jared Earle :: There is no SPORK [email protected] :: http://jearle.eu Hosting :: http://cat5.org Blog :: http://blog.23x.net _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
