On Fri, 31 May 2002 23:59:49 +0100, "Mikey" wrote:

>Just finished editing a 3 hour epic of a local theare production (shot 5
>nights different angles/zoom etc and edited together), on mini DV tape it
>doesn't look/sound bad (my first "proper" video!)- put onto VHS and of
>course there is deterioration in quality as expected but the reds seem to
>bleed very badly on a couple of scenes where the lighting/background is
>red.
>
>Any way to improve this? I'm using premiere 6 for editing.

Some VHS decks handle red better than others while making
copies (I have three VHS decks, and only one will copy red
fairly cleanly...) You can try rebalancing the color to
reduce the red if the color balance is off in the red direction,
and/or you can lower the color saturation for VHS copying...