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Originally Posted by RyfromNY
Aren't chroma dropouts from aging?
Also...the wiggly and notched side borders - that's not aging?
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No.
You were ripped off by somebody using an old VCR and non-pro hardware/workflow.
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The buzzy facial edges you think are more due to a bad transfer than to a 27 year old VHS tape just breaking down?
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Yes, bad transfer job. Really bad.
This in itself is flawed:
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old VHS tape just breaking down
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^ That's not how it works. Tapes don't degrade in that manner.
In the right playback hardware, it should look as good as when recorded -- sometimes even better. When a tape actually degrades, it means the magnetic material is sloughing off (oxide shedding).
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Wait, what are alternate fields? And what do you mean threw away half my video?
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Youtube uses a rough deinterlace method that simply tosses out data to achieve the deinterlace. The video looks worse. You must pre-process to progressive for Youtube, not feed it interlaced footage.
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Bear in mind I really know next to nothing about video beyond being able to operate a video camera. So all this tech stuff goes over my head
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I gladly explain things to all knowledge levels.
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How can you tell there was no TBC use?
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There are obvious timing error, video wiggling and skewing all about.
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And what are chroma dropouts?
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Chroma error = color noise
Dropout = all that static in the image
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What mediums would I want to use?
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On a good conversion, either MPEG or lossless. It depends on needs.
- For editing, lossless.
- For archival, never editing again, MPEG-2 at high bitrate is fine.
- For watching copy of the master, make a DVD, or process down to streaming.
You should have sent us that tape.
http://www.digitalFAQ.com/services/v...ape-to-dvd.htm
Output to DVD, BD, lossless files, whatever.