[Tony Breen]

This was a very helpful contribution. I was convinced that poor storage was the problem. However, I have found that the quality of the tape has a lot to do with survival. I used TDK S-VHS for my work and the tapes have weathered reasonably well. Earlier tapes would have been VHS and I suspect of poor quality.
I wonder do they sell drop out compensators separately. Thanks again

Antoin151

[Tony Breen]

Thanks for the info Andy. I believe poor storage is the cause. I took down some tapes from the attic last Nov. and they were OK. After the worst winter in living memory, I took down the present group.
I see a long period of “stitching” before me.
I never thought of the deinterlacing method.
Thanks again.

Antoin151

[Tony Breen]

Thanks for responding. Have already used suggestions 1 & 3. The damage has been caused by poor storage, so I had hoped that there would be a filter to cope with this. The footage is .avi so it might be a matter of scanning frame A for dropout(horizontal white line) and cloning the info. from frame B and pasting.

Antoin151