Professional tape to digital hardware to get?

[cosmicwheelz]

Hello!,

I started this as a way of finding old MTV footage, but when I bought a group of tapes to get the MTV, I liked
it. Then I started doing all of tapes (no porn or religious stuff) and started to freely share on The Internet Archive AND making a bunch of people happy I REALLY loved it. THEN I found out that there was very little FULL MTV being freely shared but mostly traded (because streaming video sites allowed full music video channel/show footage) that really bothered me! In fact, not very many people were digitizing and freely sharing whatever was on a tape....that REALLY bothered me!

So I started a crusade....

I bought every tape with commercial TV I could find! Going the extra mile! Asking questions observing what was not getting out there vs. what people wanted etc. I posted everything AND timing,indexing even taking requests! 2,068 digitized tapes (I hit 1,000 this year on the 15th!) later,3 VCRs,1 Betamax later....I LOVE THIS! I've even been called 'a legend' became EVERY tape I posted, I encouraged ALL traders/digitizers to do the same! the stories and the stories! Now there are *12* people doing it!

AND I HAVE HAD 346 SURGERIES! I HAVE NO HANDS,FEET AND I'M 80% BLIND! I have tasted every type of tape! (I really love the '92 Kodaks!).

So now I want to 'up my game!' and get a PROFESSIONAL VCR!

I don't have a BUNCH of money (are you kidding? with all of the storage I've had to buy????)

So please list any recommend and/or anything that are for sale. I don't know any video editing software so I need a VCR that can do as much as possible. If you live in the Indianapolis area and can tutor me in any software to make some extra money, please PM me.

AND FINALLY: If you have any 60s,70s,80s,90s music related,Carson,Letterman,comedy,sitcom,kids related 70s,80s,90s please PM me!

THANK YOU!

Sean 'cosmicwheelz' Toth
tapes Betamax/VHS please

[lordsmurf]

Standard workflow needed: VCR > TBC > capture card

Not just any VCR/TBC/card, but specific models known for quality.
A low budget limits options, degrades quality with every shortcut taken.

bad/worst = cheap consumer VHS VCR > cheap/wrong capture card
wrong card = HD cards, gamer "capture" cards

ideal = JVC S-VHS VCR with line TBC > DataVideo/Cypress-type framessync TBC > ATI type capture card
Again, specific models.
Budget for this is about $2500.

middle ground isn't professional, but can include non-TBC S-VHS decks, some VHS decks, ES10/15 required, DVKs, etc. Budget for this can be on low side. Low = $1k range. (I can cobble together 2 budget workflows at the moment, with gear I have in the marketplace.)

I have some some Carson, Letterman, Leno, my own captures from original off-air recordings from tape. These are accidental recordings, but we never junked. I'm also a TV collector from way back (80s/90s), but mostly for cartoons.

And if you have any 80s toy commercials, let me know.

Encouraging other TV collectors to capture is great, but it needs to be done in quality. I don't want to watch wiggling video, tracking errors, audio sync problems, bad colors, etc. It's just a tease of what could be watch, not what can be watched.

[latreche34]

I started to experiment with a youtube channel here, the problem is most of the stuff is copy protected and will be removed or muted by youtube, now I just have samples left.

You don't want a professional VCR, those were the work horses of the era, they have million miles on them, Just a consumer S-VHS VCR with line TBC/DNR and S-Video and turn off any other digital processing besides the TBC and DNR.

[cosmicwheelz]

Yes! Thank you! If anyone has any of these for sale, please PM me.

Great site!

[lordsmurf]

Marketplace subforum: http://www.digitalFAQ.com/forum/marketplace

[cosmicwheelz]

Quote:

Originally Posted by lordsmurf

Standard workflow needed: VCR > TBC > capture card

Not just any VCR/TBC/card, but specific models known for quality.
A low budget limits options, degrades quality with every shortcut taken.

bad/worst = cheap consumer VHS VCR > cheap/wrong capture card
wrong card = HD cards, gamer "capture" cards

ideal = JVC S-VHS VCR with line TBC > DataVideo/Cypress-type framessync TBC > ATI type capture card
Again, specific models.
Budget for this is about $2500.

middle ground isn't professional, but can include non-TBC S-VHS decks, some VHS decks, ES10/15 required, DVKs, etc. Budget for this can be on low side. Low = $1k range. (I can cobble together 2 budget workflows at the moment, with gear I have in the marketplace.)

I have some some Carson, Letterman, Leno, my own captures from original off-air recordings from tape. These are accidental recordings, but we never junked. I'm also a TV collector from way back (80s/90s), but mostly for cartoons.

And if you have any 80s toy commercials, let me know.

Encouraging other TV collectors to capture is great, but it needs to be done in quality. I don't want to watch wiggling video, tracking errors, audio sync problems, bad colors, etc. It's just a tease of what could be watch, not what can be watched.

Most of my stuff is great. But if it's something that I think is something rare and/or something that I can enjoy with just sound like MTV type stuff, I'll keep it. But I have released something C quality and someone cleaned it up!

How do you make a list of all your clips? I tried and with just 1 finger and crappy sight, After 4 hours I had only 51 clips! Out of over 14,000???? The filenames are the contents of the clip but I couldn't find a way to turn that let's me convert that to regular ASCII text!

But 96% is good-great!

[lordsmurf]

I would like to see a sample of what "great" and "C" look like. In my experience, "great" was rarely even good, and "C" was more like "unviewable F". Too many collectors and traders were way too forgiving. Quality was often so bad that it looked terrible even on a tiny screen (then 13" CRT, now smart phones). But some collectors actually had standards, and I enjoyed working with them, either just for trading, or in collaboration projects.

Organization is mostly about good folder/file structure, and spreadsheets. Too many collectors made organization overcomplicated and overly time consuming (special niche software that always disappeared eventually, meta data, DAMs, etc). You don't need all that. I was organized before we even had digital.

And I think I PM'd you? Never got a response?

Having disabilities is challenging, this I know. But the video hobby is a great way to still get enjoyment in life. Live vicariously, live with a rich imagination, and deep appreciation of this visual/audio art. It helped me get through some hard times health-wise in my own life. You seem to be in good spirits, and that's good. Too many folks get depressed by their limitations, instead of finding ways to navigate it.