17.06.2024, 05:35
It's me - I'm the one who created that content and didn't know what I was doing, haha. I appreciate your honesty!
Although... I thought I knew what I was doing. Perhaps you might be kind enough to give me some advice so I can figure out what I did wrong?
Some quick background: I've been doing my best to read up and study on how all of this works over the past few years. I got myself a decent VCR - a JVS HR-7900U with built-in TBC and SVHS output - and for awhile I had been digitizing important family videos (and other cherished tapes) via the Elgato Video Capture cable and hardware.
In recent months, I started to realize that the Elgato cable and hardware... sucks. I started noticing that it crops the video frame, and besides that, I just didn't like the video quality. So I decided to start over (fortunately I made sure to keep all the original tapes).
After reading all sorts of reviews and watching all sorts of videos, I recently picked up the GV-USB2 cable, and learned how to use OBS software to capture video. I immediately saw a NOTICEABLE difference in overall quality with these new hardware and software changes to my setup. And with OBS, I'm able to deinterlace with Yadif 2x and export at 60fps, and honestly I think it looks really good... but then I started reading about other forms of deinterlacing, like QTGMC... which is what lead me to the Hybrid software. And then, of course, I saw all the other features that Hybrid offers, and I got really excited to learn about it.
So, back to the tape in question (from which came the clip I sent you). My understanding was that in order to deinterlace via Hybrid (instead of deinterlacing from the start using OBS's built-in filters), I needed to re-digitize my tapes with deinterlacing turned OFF in OBS. So, that's what I did to capture this video - acquiring what I thought was a properly-captured, non-deinterlaced video. And then I proceeded to load it into Hybrid, which led me here.
After your response today about the way my video was digitized, I wonder if perhaps the problem may be in my settings on the GV-USB2's driver software... it appears that there's no way to disable deinterlacing? Perhaps I'm looking at it wrong.
Attached below is a screenshot of my current settings for my GV-USB2 cable. I know that this forum isn't for getting help with that particular cable, and I'm not going to insist that you do give me advice with this if you aren't interested in doing so... but I'm just curious if you might have any suggestions. If not, I understand - I can go elsewhere to try and get help to properly digitize these tapes before returning here for help with Hybrid.
In any case, thank you for the help!
Although... I thought I knew what I was doing. Perhaps you might be kind enough to give me some advice so I can figure out what I did wrong?
Some quick background: I've been doing my best to read up and study on how all of this works over the past few years. I got myself a decent VCR - a JVS HR-7900U with built-in TBC and SVHS output - and for awhile I had been digitizing important family videos (and other cherished tapes) via the Elgato Video Capture cable and hardware.
In recent months, I started to realize that the Elgato cable and hardware... sucks. I started noticing that it crops the video frame, and besides that, I just didn't like the video quality. So I decided to start over (fortunately I made sure to keep all the original tapes).
After reading all sorts of reviews and watching all sorts of videos, I recently picked up the GV-USB2 cable, and learned how to use OBS software to capture video. I immediately saw a NOTICEABLE difference in overall quality with these new hardware and software changes to my setup. And with OBS, I'm able to deinterlace with Yadif 2x and export at 60fps, and honestly I think it looks really good... but then I started reading about other forms of deinterlacing, like QTGMC... which is what lead me to the Hybrid software. And then, of course, I saw all the other features that Hybrid offers, and I got really excited to learn about it.
So, back to the tape in question (from which came the clip I sent you). My understanding was that in order to deinterlace via Hybrid (instead of deinterlacing from the start using OBS's built-in filters), I needed to re-digitize my tapes with deinterlacing turned OFF in OBS. So, that's what I did to capture this video - acquiring what I thought was a properly-captured, non-deinterlaced video. And then I proceeded to load it into Hybrid, which led me here.
After your response today about the way my video was digitized, I wonder if perhaps the problem may be in my settings on the GV-USB2's driver software... it appears that there's no way to disable deinterlacing? Perhaps I'm looking at it wrong.
Attached below is a screenshot of my current settings for my GV-USB2 cable. I know that this forum isn't for getting help with that particular cable, and I'm not going to insist that you do give me advice with this if you aren't interested in doing so... but I'm just curious if you might have any suggestions. If not, I understand - I can go elsewhere to try and get help to properly digitize these tapes before returning here for help with Hybrid.
In any case, thank you for the help!