No color with video capture

[dadiOH]

I have need of digitizing a couple of VHS tapes and to that end I bought and
installed an inexpensive Hauppage Impact VCB capture card.

I have no problem getting and recording a signal from the tape player, the
problem is that it is in black & white. The tapes play in color on a TV.
The Hauppage software does have an area for setting color characteristics -
brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. - and they do change the contrast and
brightness but nothing has any effect on the lack of color.

Can anyone suggest a solution? Info re cause would be nice too :)

Video stuff is new to me so if there is a better group for my question
please advise.

[Gene E. Bloch]

Post by dadiOH
I have need of digitizing a couple of VHS tapes and to that end I bought and
installed an inexpensive Hauppage Impact VCB capture card.
I have no problem getting and recording a signal from the tape player, the
problem is that it is in black & white. The tapes play in color on a TV.
The Hauppage software does have an area for setting color characteristics -
brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. - and they do change the contrast and
brightness but nothing has any effect on the lack of color.
Can anyone suggest a solution? Info re cause would be nice too :)
Video stuff is new to me so if there is a better group for my question
please advise.

One possible cause (pure guesswork, since you gave no hint of how you
connected): you connected via S-Video and the S-Video cable is bad.

[Gordon]

Post by dadiOH
I have need of digitizing a couple of VHS tapes and to that end I
bought and installed an inexpensive Hauppage Impact VCB capture card.
I have no problem getting and recording a signal from the tape player,
the problem is that it is in black & white. The tapes play in color on
a TV. The Hauppage software does have an area for setting color
characteristics - brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. - and they do
change the contrast and brightness but nothing has any effect on the
lack of color.
Can anyone suggest a solution? Info re cause would be nice too :)
Video stuff is new to me so if there is a better group for my question
please advise.

Make sure that your capture settings are set properly. IE: PAL vs NTSC,
and Composite vs S-video.

It sounds to me like you are feeding it a S-video signal and your
capture is set to composite. FWIW: Hauppauge uses the same S-video
connector for both S-video and Composite inputs.