CapableMetal said:

BTW, the latest clips look great!

Thank you very much! It's great when someone shows his appreciation for my work, and keep me going on with my project!

You_Too said:

To comment on the latest clip, it looks like the shadow detail has been crushed.

Still thinking about what may be the cause of it... I used two different VDub versions for capturing the first clip (1.9.11 for D925, 1.8.8 for 4300 and 600), and only the newest 1.9.11 for the second clip, using the same D925 player for all the three editions. Is any difference in quality and reliability, when capturing analog video, between different VDub versions?

Or maybe it is because I didn't flag neither the "extend luma black point" nor the "extend luma white point"? I don't think the problem lies here.

Or (and I think the problem, and the solution too, is here) it is because in the first clip I passed the laserdisc signal through the Pioneer DVD recorder, using it as comb filter, with its white level set high?

If it's the latter, it's just a matter of recapture everything (sic!) with the right white/black settings - find the right contrast and brightness on VirtualDub video proc amp settings during capture, this time looking carefully at the histogram, instead using the defaul settings...

OK, I'm ready to recapture all (Xx/) ..."errare humanum est"!