Is it true that DVD will only look as good as the original tape?
This week's issue was found on the site of Digital Memories of Texas (Humble, Texas) at http://www.dmoftexas.com/services_Video.html
Screen capture from 4/8/2010 http://www.digitalfaq.com/images/sha...oftexas-bs.png Our analysis and response: On this very site, there is an entire forum dedicated to the topic of improving video: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/foru...mprove-17.html Along with several how-to guides: http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/vid...ex-restore.htm One of our contributors (lordsmurf), helped create this forum several years ago: http://forum.videohelp.com/forums/41-Restoration Videos can most definitely be improved, corrected, filtered and restored. While results will always vary, and can be heavily tied to the quality of the input, to say it "cannot be corrected" is a myth. At best, it's a reflection of your own limitations, and not the limitations of digital video processing in general. As a response to the slogan of this company, I would imagine it's hard to "unlock memories" when you don't seem to have the key. About these pages: Remember that these posts are made for consumer awareness of misinformation, myth, propaganda or other questionable information/data that has appeared on sites (often for video conversion services) that we've seen online. Sites that are found to have misinformation, myth or propaganda will be listed in our Video Service Hall of Shame. Thanks. |
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At most, his statement of "can not be corrected" is a limitation of his own skills, knowledge or equipment -- it's a limitation of his service. However, it's being presented as if restoring video is not possible. Quote:
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We'll be doing the same with web design/maintenance, too, once the video series is done. There's just so much BS out there that it's actually started to overtake the quantity of accurate information! That is pathetic. You'll find I'm a very pleasant person, but I've grown tired of misinformation. Hence this new forum, these new posts, and many more on the to-do list. I'm not alone either, several others are giving input into this series of posts and articles. Quote:
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And if your friend wants to avoid justified criticism for publishing something as silly as "tapes cannot be fixed" -- a specialty service that is not only possible, but for which and entire industry exists!! -- then I suggest he remove it and/or clarify what he means (i.e., that HIS service cannot correct tapes, instead of suggesting/stating it cannot be done). These posts are made for consumer awareness, but if services can learn from them too, great! Less myth and misinformation will be propagated. And above all else, that is the point of these myth-busting posts/articles. Thanks for writing. :) |
I most definitely agree that videos can be restored, but I feel that I must point out, that sometimes you can go to far, and end up making the video look worst than it was originally. I've done some video's where the original camera person never white balanced. I'll try to correct the balance (if it's very orange, I'll try to decrease the red and bring up the blue's and green's), but sometimes the video will look very unnatural when that is done, and the best thing is to remove the color correction, and just leave it with only Broadcast Colors on the video (that's just one of the things that I add when I convert any video, analog or digital, so that I know that the customer is getting back a video that plays within the standards for NTSC or PAL, and they don't get a video that slowly damages their TV).
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Very true... with caveats.
There's some things that should always be removed or corrected with VHS. - remove chroma noise - remove "color" bleeding caused by the chroma not overlapping properly on the luma - adjust VHS too-low IRE It's everything else where you can overdo it, from grain removal to color correction. You don't want to make people too "plastic", or make the video off-color because your monitor isn't properly calibrated. Under-doing it is as bad as overdoing it. |
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