VHS Black and White with color flickering

[Jim107]

Trying to digitize some home VHS videos. The video can play but shifts between black and white every couple seconds. I connected the VCR back to a TV to see if it was the Tape or the VCR but it displayed color just fine on TV. I also tried changing up color settings but couldn't fix. Anybody know how to fix?

https://obsproject.com/logs/1KfginoAgizpkY2j

 

[SoftballSteve]

I have the same exact issue. I get the same same result with Golden Videos software. Please help!

 

[nd234]

Hey, did any of you solve this by any chance? I'm seeing a very similar issue with my analog cam connected. Seems like the audio also cuts off intermittently throughout.

 

[Heisenberg1]

I'm having the same issue also. It seems to be only happening on analog devices. Any fix please.

 

[carlmmii]

This would be a problem with your capture device. OBS has no visibility of the problem.

If you're connecting via Composite (yellow cable), that means the capture device isn't correctly latching onto the chroma signal. If you have the ability to use S-video or Component instead, that should avoid the problem.

 

[cruzermon]

Anyone have a resolution to this? Having exact same issue with both a VCR and a mini 8 camcorder. Using a brand new macbook pro. Neither the VCR or camcorder have an S-video output, just that yellow RCA.

 

[Catra7]

I have been transferring camcorder videos from VHS to digital using an RCA cable to USB adapter and when I started I encountered this same problem of the bars across the screen and weird colours/black and white output when simply recording the screen in OBS. I have a VHS/DVD combo machine and discovered, by accident really, how to overcome this and record near original quality videos on OBS. My machine does dubbing from VHS to DVD and when I did this, the problems of colours and bars were gone! I use DVD-RW discs to record to, but DVD-R ones work, too, although you can only record once to these. The rewritable discs work better when doing many VHS conversions. I hope this trick may help some of you.

 

[Will Foley]

Greetings! Way to use my photo from my help post... I just made a video of how you can fix the issue using a different device https://youtu.be/QoaX3_aP_LE

 

[Catra7]

Good video, Will! Much more 21st century than my accidental fix on my VCR-DVD recorder solution!

 

[djslava]

This may be due to a mismatch between the video systems (PAL, MESECAM, NTSC) of the source material and the capture card. For example, I had a similar effect when I tried to digitize a TV cassette (MESECAM system) through a MiniDV camcorder (PAL system). The problem was solved at the moment by the capture card from AverMedia and the DScaler program (there is a switch of video systems). But the problem is definitely not in the wrong video system on the VCR itself, otherwise the image would be completely black and white without color blinking.