What "pre-capture" video enhancer do you suggest?

[Sillyname]

I'm looking for a video enhancer to send my video through in order to clean-up any graininess, discoloration, and what-not. I'm also looking for something that can split RGB information and recombine it in a way that it comes as close to a 3-CCD camera's quality as possible. Is there anything out there that will do this within a poorman's budget?

[Dr Mordrid]

I use the Elite Video BVP-4 Plus.

It's truly an excellent video processor. Since it uses precision analog circuitry there aren't any steps or gradations in the changes it makes. I use it both for smooging analog before capture and on the way to tape. On sale for $729. Check it here;

http://www.elitevideo.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scst ore/p-88.html?L+scstore+fxbu9030+973636398

A couple of steps down the food chain is the SIMA SCC. It runs about $129 at Videoguys. Check it here;

http://www.videoguys.com/sima.htm

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 11 August 2000).]

[Frank Marshall]

This isn't a recommendation or even a suggestion, I just thought you might like to know that some of the users at the Video CD forum are using M-Filter which I think is a PCI card made by the same mob that make the Broadway MPEG cards. I don't know anything more about it, sorry, but you might want to check it out. I think it's pretty reasonably priced too.

[cjyo~]

http://www.darvision.com/products/m-filter/index.html

$600, I think. I've been looking at it for pre-processing before MPEG2 encoding, but I haven't acually seen it in action.