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Adjul Gardner
September 6, 2015 at 7:08 pm in reply to: Dirty audio from a bad VHS tape?

I should also note that the bad capturing appeared not to have affected the image at all, only sound.
Adjul Gardner
September 6, 2015 at 6:52 pm in reply to: Mysterious lagging phenomenon on freshly-rendered file

So I got spooked by the original DV-avi file size and compressed them to mpegs. I went back to the original dv-avis (which were occasionally too long because I left the VCR/ADVC running), trimmed them up, and used them (in all their 28Gig glory) and the syncing was better than ever.

I noticed vegas could much more accurately sync the audio-video with those files than the original old mpgs I was given before I recaptured the tapes. Also, the ADVC gave me a way larger audio ceiling – there was clipping all over the place on the old mpegs I was given (captured straight from a VCR with USB), audio was in general much cleaner as well.
Adjul Gardner
August 26, 2015 at 1:53 pm in reply to: VHS Wobble

Good news:

I found a ADVC-300 at a major metro area I happened to be visiting for $60. Then she dropped the price to $30. Agreed to hold it for me for my trip then gave it to me for $20. Estate sale lady who didn’t know what she had on her hands, apparently.

It cleaned up 90% of the wobble in my tapes and also gave me a clearer picture across the board. And now I can sell it!
🙂
Adjul Gardner
May 28, 2015 at 5:23 pm in reply to: VHS Wobble

Thanks guys – did a bunch of research on TBC…seems like a lot of options (scalers, VCRs with it built-in and then converting from that) but none of them at a price point I can make because of the rarity of VHS these days.

I started looking into VHS digitization services, which do seem to be reasonably-priced. But the first one I emailed asking if they have TBC on their machines replied that they can’t tell me. Duh!

Does anybody have a recommended service for this?
Adjul Gardner
March 23, 2015 at 2:45 pm in reply to: shooting documentary dialogue with 2 people, rather than just one

Roger, thanks for the behind the head tip, I haven’t utilized that much.

Also – I’m not sure if this was clear: I’ll have two cameras AND two shooters.
Adjul Gardner
February 10, 2015 at 2:50 am in reply to: Creating enlarged text effect over blurred-over email

Graham, so are you emphasizing the targeted text with contrast, blur, etc. Or are you de-emphasizing the background text? I’m assuming the latter.

thanks for the suggestion
Adjul Gardner
September 12, 2014 at 12:03 pm in reply to: Workflow for huge documentary

I’m wondering: is there any sort of external video splitter/labeling/organizing program that people use for cataloging footage? I don’t actually need to do anything in vegas until I’m making scenes.
Adjul