Advice on committing 35mm slides to DVD

[John Rofrano]

You done good Rick. Preserving family memories is a labor of love. I have a bunch of VHS camcorder and DV tapes that I need to capture and get on DVD while the tapes still play and unfortunately, several of the people in them and not with us anymore. Glad to hear your Christmas present was a success.

~jr

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[Wayne Waag]

[Rick]

So glad you finally completed your project and that it was well-received by your family. Comments from loved ones truly make the effort worthwhile. Congrats.

wwaag

[Rick Hughes]

Wayne … glad you comment prompted me to buy PSG, it really made it so easy, very worthwhile investment.

I also purchased some professional scanning software ‘Vuescan‘ made the use of a Dimage ScanDualIV 35mm slide (and negative) scanner, the manufacturer (Minolta) dropped out of photography business in 2006 … so no scanner software for W7 (or even W2k.
Vuescan allowed the excellent hardware & optics to continue to be used.

Decided I’m going to digitise a lot of my ‘colour’ prints from the past … create a few more Discs

[Rick Hughes]

John .. that was where it started .. I digitized all the VHS tapes earlier in the year, including my own wedding tape …… amazing how many people in the tapes are no more.
I had SVHS so at least has a reasonable starting point …… but quality so bad to what you can get off a phone nowadays.

Glad I did the VHS conversion as they would only continue to degrade.

I managed to get some very impressive VHS conversion filters for use with AVIsynth & Virtual Dub ….. did great noise reduction, corrected sync slip etc.
Thousands of line of code written by some very clever people all available for free. 🙂

Although AVIsysnth & Virtual dub are not exactly intuitive to use, steep learning curve.

[John Rofrano]

[Rick Hughes] “I managed to get some very impressive VHS conversion filters for use with AVIsynth & Virtual Dub ….. did great noise reduction, corrected sync slip etc.Thousands of line of code written by some very clever people all available for free. :-)”

I’ve played with VirtualDub a bit many years ago and I remember them having some filters specific to VHS. Which ones did you use that worked the best?

~jr

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[Rick Hughes]

John … I’ll pull a post together and post it later today as a new thread .. I’ll use title “VHS digitization and clean up” so you can see when it lands.

[John Rofrano]

Great! Thanks!!!

~jr

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