Question / Help VHS to digital - distorted colours on recording but fine on camcorder

[panasonicvhs]

Hi all,

First of all, thank you for the programme, it's awesome.

I'm trying to digitalise my old home videos from small EC45 tapes to digital format.

I'm using an EasyCap capture tool which I paid £5 for off ebay and I have the drivers installed for it.

My settings are the same as in this tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvLR3Aba2Ck

When capturing the video, it also plays on the camcorder and I can see the colours perfectly fine but in the final output, they are black and white / distorted / occasionally watered down colours of the original.

I have been able to get the first video fine but it's from 2009.

The one I'm doing now is from 1998 if it matters.

Log is below:

21:25:48.142: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz
21:25:48.142: CPU Speed: 3193MHz
21:25:48.142: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
21:25:48.142: Physical Memory: 8062MB Total, 3882MB Free
21:25:48.142: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 17134 (revision: 950; 64-bit)
21:25:48.142: Running as administrator: false
21:25:48.142: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
21:25:48.142: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
21:25:48.143: Game Bar: Off
21:25:48.143: Game DVR: Off
21:25:48.143: Game Mode: Off
21:25:48.147: Sec. Software Status:
21:25:48.148: Windows Defender Antivirus: enabled (AV)
21:25:48.148: Windows Firewall: enabled (FW)
21:25:48.149: Windows Defender Antivirus: enabled (ASW)
21:25:48.149: Current Date/Time: 2019-08-17, 21:25:48
21:25:48.149: Browser Hardware Acceleration: true
21:25:48.149: Portable mode: false
21:25:48.634: OBS 23.2.1 (64-bit, windows)
21:25:48.634: ---------------------------------
21:25:48.658: ---------------------------------
21:25:48.658: audio settings reset:
21:25:48.658: samples per sec: 44100
21:25:48.658: speakers: 2
21:25:48.660: ---------------------------------
21:25:48.660: Initializing D3D11...
21:25:48.660: Available Video Adapters:
21:25:48.662: Adapter 0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
21:25:48.662: Dedicated VRAM: 4239917056
21:25:48.662: Shared VRAM: 4227145728
21:25:48.662: output 0: pos={0, 0}, size={1366, 768}, attached=true
21:25:48.662: Adapter 1: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
21:25:48.662: Dedicated VRAM: 117964800
21:25:48.662: Shared VRAM: 2147483648
21:25:48.665: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (0)
21:25:48.732: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: 45056
21:25:49.796: ---------------------------------
21:25:49.796: video settings reset:
21:25:49.796: base resolution: 720x480
21:25:49.796: output resolution: 720x480
21:25:49.796: downscale filter: Bicubic
21:25:49.796: fps: 60/1
21:25:49.796: format: NV12
21:25:49.796: YUV mode: 601/Partial
21:25:49.796: NV12 texture support enabled
21:25:49.799: Audio monitoring device:
21:25:49.799: name: Default
21:25:49.799: id: default
21:25:49.799: ---------------------------------
21:25:49.817: [CoreAudio encoder]: Adding CoreAudio AAC encoder
21:25:49.818: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-ouput-ui.dll'
21:25:49.874: [AMF] AMF Test failed due to one or more errors.
21:25:49.874: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
21:25:49.947: Module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll' not loaded
21:25:49.953: [obs-browser]: Version 2.4.0
21:25:49.959: NVENC supported
21:25:50.012: Couldn't find VLC installation, VLC video source disabled
21:25:50.019: No blackmagic support
21:25:50.030: ---------------------------------
21:25:50.030: Loaded Modules:
21:25:50.030: win-wasapi.dll
21:25:50.030: win-mf.dll
21:25:50.030: win-ivcam.dll
21:25:50.030: win-dshow.dll
21:25:50.030: win-decklink.dll
21:25:50.030: win-capture.dll
21:25:50.030: vlc-video.dll
21:25:50.030: text-freetype2.dll
21:25:50.030: rtmp-services.dll
21:25:50.030: obs-x264.dll
21:25:50.030: obs-vst.dll
21:25:50.031: obs-transitions.dll
21:25:50.031: obs-text.dll
21:25:50.031: obs-qsv11.dll
21:25:50.031: obs-outputs.dll
21:25:50.031: obs-filters.dll
21:25:50.031: obs-ffmpeg.dll
21:25:50.031: obs-browser.dll
21:25:50.031: image-source.dll
21:25:50.031: frontend-tools.dll
21:25:50.031: enc-amf.dll
21:25:50.031: decklink-ouput-ui.dll
21:25:50.031: coreaudio-encoder.dll
21:25:50.031: ---------------------------------
21:25:50.031: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
21:25:50.039: Service '' not found
21:25:50.048: All scene data cleared
21:25:50.048: ------------------------------------------------
21:25:50.127: WASAPI: Device 'SAMSUNG (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)' initialized
21:25:50.154: WASAPI: Device 'Microphone (3- AV TO USB2.0)' initialized
21:25:50.155: Switched to scene 'Scene'
21:25:50.155: ------------------------------------------------
21:25:50.155: Loaded scenes:
21:25:50.155: - scene 'Scene':
21:25:50.155: - source: 'Panasonic' (dshow_input)
21:25:50.155: ------------------------------------------------
21:25:50.208: adding 46 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 46 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux)
21:25:50.208:
21:25:50.252: ---------------------------------
21:25:50.252: [DShow Device: 'Panasonic'] settings updated:
21:25:50.252: video device: AV TO USB2.0
21:25:50.252: video path: \\?\usb#vid_534d&pid_0021&mi_00#6&1243144c&0&0000#{65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196}\global
21:25:50.252: resolution: 720x480
21:25:50.252: fps: 30.00 (interval: 333333)
21:25:50.252: format: YUY2





Thank you very much :)

 

[panasonicvhs]

ok :(

 

[Suslik V]

Wow! Did you tried with the latest OBS Studio?

 

[panasonicvhs]

Wow! Did you tried with the latest OBS Studio?

I did at the time. Not sure if a new one is out. Will give it another try or buy a different capture card.