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Originally Posted by willow5
from keeping them raw is best
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Very often, this is just an excuse to be lazy.
There is actually no such things as "raw". All video gets processed between tape and capture, and therefore the prevailing issue is how well that processing is, and how agreeable the tape is to being processed. Bad gear makes every tape look terrible, good gear makes many (but never all) tapes look extremely acceptable without much/any further work.
After capture, sometimes you still need processing, beyond what the hardware could do. Video is supposed to be enjoyable, and distractions take away from that enjoyment. If processing restores enjoyment, then you restore the video.
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through to the other end of the spectrum where you must post process every tape!
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I specialize in restoration, so my sources needing advanced work is often a given. However not all projects are damaged, and need no further attention after capture.
Doing ALL tapes is excessive, and doing NO tapes is lazy and uncaring (ie, why even bother converting). The reality is that the tapes themselves determine needs, not you (royal you).
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B) tell me what the purist view is
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I dislike video purists. I've stated this often over the years. I'm a realist. (Also not pessimist or optimist, both of which I find divorced from reality.)
Purists have no concept of nuance, and have the classics binary worldview (black and white, "us vs. them"). Reality is shades of gray, the understanding that you can be both for AND against (or neither for nor against). Purists ALWAYS do A, never B, and have no more letters in their alphabet (which is probably why they can't form coherent sentences at times).
At the opposite spectrum is lazy SOBs, usually cheapskates, overly forgiving ("oh, it doesn't matter" aka "good enough"), dismissive of errors, etc. You could poke out both of their eyes, ask them how it looks, and you'd get an answer of "it looks fine to me!"
But most people fall within a middle spectrum.
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I know that each recording and tape is different so it is horses for courses but I just want to understand the fundamentals first.
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Then it seems you already understand.