Twisted Videos.

Stuart E.

Newbie Joined: Apr 08, 2013 12:48 Messages: 1 Offline

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Apr 08, 2013 12:58

I'm using the trial version of Power Director 11. Seems very impressive to my eyes. However my immediate problem is as follows.
I have some old analogue videos I wish to digitalize and transfer to a DVD. Some of my videos were made on an old camera and for whatever reason parts of those videos when viewed are " twisted " and flicker a lot. ( ie. top left corner pushes in and so too does bottom right corner giving figures an " S " shape. ) I would like to know, before I invest any more money is there any means of " straightening " out my old videos?
Thanking you in advance. All sensible suggestions welcome.

James1

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Apr 08, 2013 13:26

Hi,,
Import your analogue videos into timeline..select modify...in the modify window the preview display has 'squares' in the corners, the squares are white and just underneath is little 'blue square'. On the left there is a drop down for aspect ratio disable keep aspect ratiio..now you can manipulate the orientation with the little blue squares. See if that fixes your delemma.
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Carl312

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Apr 08, 2013 23:16

Quote: I'm using the trial version of Power Director 11. Seems very impressive to my eyes. However my immediate problem is as follows.
I have some old analogue videos I wish to digitalize and transfer to a DVD. Some of my videos were made on an old camera and for whatever reason parts of those videos when viewed are " twisted " and flicker a lot. ( ie. top left corner pushes in and so too does bottom right corner giving figures an " S " shape. ) I would like to know, before I invest any more money is there any means of " straightening " out my old videos?
Thanking you in advance. All sensible suggestions welcome.

Are the videos still on Video Tape?

Are they bending as they play? Have you tried the Tracking adjustment on your VCR?

Sometimes playing video tape back on a different machine than the one that recorded the tape will cause that bending.

Sometime adjusting the tracking will help, it may not get it all out, the only way to eliminate the bending is to play the tape on the same machine that recorded the Tape.

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Xerox

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Apr 09, 2013 04:04

There is a plug-in from NewBlueFX called Image Mapper that works in PowerDirector (and other editors). Image Mapper is part of the NewBlue Video Essentials III collection. You can try it out for free for 14 days, I believe. Work fast. It will allow you to distort the frames with curves. It's actually for mapping video to an object, so they say. I guess I'll have to watch the tutorial. Well, it may or may not help with your problem, but it looks like it will.

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