Capturing Video From a VCR in PD12

rich23456

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Jan 18, 2014 18:15

I just bought a video capturing adapter through Amazon and was just trying it out with PD12. When just viewing the video as it plays on my VCR in Capture mode, I see the VCR video, but the display screen has a green field/bar below the video, full width of the video. If I record and capture this, is the captured file going to display this green field also? Is there a setting to eliminate this field? Can the field be edited out if it is there in the finished product? Has anyone else seen this? The video adapter I am using is a EasyCap 2.0 USB device model DC60.

James1

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Jan 18, 2014 18:50

Hi,
Well PS12 has a chroma key function, which if the green area is a consistent shade of green and there is no green within the video should eliminate the bar, but you would have to produce that clip and adjust as need. The clip would then show the background as black (or whatever is below it) if modified on say track 2, then whatever on track 1 will replace the 'chroma' with that image.
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BarryTheCrab

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Jan 18, 2014 19:15

I've seen the green bar from previous analog to digital captures, I think it's a VCR tracking issue. In the event you cannot get rid of it...Google the problem and see what pops up.
Also, you can just live with the capture as is, and re-size the media in the preview window to "crop" out the offending region. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Carl312

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Jan 18, 2014 19:44

You may be able to eliminate the Green bar by adjusting the Tracking on your VCR.

Most VCRs have a Tracking adjustment on the Remote control.

If you cannot get rid of the green bar by use of tracking, you may have to crop out the green bar after it is captured.
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rich23456

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2013 19:56 Messages: 23 Offline

Jan 18, 2014 20:53

Thanks for the info, guys. Glad to know it isn't something just wrong with my capturing device.