Washed bright section during vid capture

[digitaltreasure]

Hi,
I run a modest film to video transfer business and we recently started offering DVD service. We caputer from SVHS to a high end computer for rendering and burning. Lately I've noticed sections of video that were rather bright on the source are washed out on the captured file.

I use a DV500 for caputer via SVideo or fire wire when from MiniDV. Someone reccomende a video processing amp and someone else reccomended a better card. I've got 20 jobs due in 10 days are sure need a straight answer yesterday.

Any assistance is appreciated.
Mark

BTW: What a great site this is.... Glad I found it!

[setarip]

"Lately I've noticed sections of video that were rather bright on the source are washed out on the captured file."

If you said you were capturing from COMMERCIAL VHS (movies), I'd tell you that you're seeing the effects of Macrovision protection...

[digitaltreasure]

good suggestion but...

Thanks but these are defiantely not copyright. Any suggestions on a good under $500 processing amp?

Mark