For those in the Toronto-Hamilton-Montreal corridor, I've been running everpixels.ca for a bit as a side thing (though it's kinda on pause). It's primarily focused on photo digitization for families - but I've also done a ton of tape media. I can help any local HNers that need access to hardware. (Or just some info/direction)
Technology Connections (YouTube) does some good coverage of capturing/converting analogue video - hardware choices make huge difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY
There's clearly a need/desire for this kind of stuff (though it's sad how many times I'm approached as someone is near death). Don't wait til that moment to save the stories and memories that you have.
I've been back and forth about how much I want to dive in with this project. If anyone is local and really interested in some of it, drop me a line. There are some cool avenues I've touched - seniors, alzheimers, story capture.
I started down the path of doing this project for a family member after we found an old VCR and I had been playing with a few of the cheap HDMI capture cards.
I've had a world of hurt with video/audio sync issues and the recommendation he uses to grab the component to HDMI device led me down a path of searches where I finally found that my V4L2 capture with ffmpeg was using a different clock than the ALSA sound capture device. Using ffmpeg's -ts flag I have set V4L2 use 'abs', the same as ALSA.
I haven't done any extended length captures yet so I'm not positive I won't have drift, but on the shorter length clips it has worked flawlessly.
Anyway, thanks again for the link. His advice led me down a path that finally seems to have made the capture aspect of this project work!
Any tips for digitizing old Sony Video 8 camcorder tapes? I have a whole stash but when I looked into paying to digitize them it was shockingly expensive.
Wow, I'm sorry this was such a hassle for you. I think things have gotten better in the meantime. My father died last year and I decided to digitize our home videos to reminisce with.
The capture part was easy enough, did it over a single weekend. I bought a camera that could play the tapes (~$100) and an Elgato Video Capture (~$80). Quality was as good as possible from the tapes and no audio issues. I also did not want to use a third party because I was concerned they might botch the job / lose the irreplaceable tapes / etc.
The editing took about a month, I've never done video editing before. I just loaded up stuff in iMovie and grouped stuff together as it made sense to me. Most of the time was spent just watching the videos (I think I had around 60 hours of footage) which was enjoyable and necessary.
In terms of sharing, I paid a friend who does video editing to make a supercut of all the best moments and I screened it at the family Christmas (many laughs and tears). I gave folks thumb drives of clips that were specific to them, but honestly I'm not sure if people even watched them. The movie format made it more digestible.
If anyone wants the Elgato, I still have it and can give it to you for the cost of shipping. Also happy to refer you to my friend for editing needs, he's very affordable.
Your story sounds like the experience I thought I'd have. There'd be certainly a lot less difficulty if the equipment I got just captured accurately right out of the box.
I agree with you on the value of making supercuts of the clips. I've made two video montages from my videos, and those are the clips I most often re-watch.
I spent much longer on this project than I expected to, and I learned a lot from the experience. I wrote this in hopes that it might be useful for others who want to digitize their old photos and home videos.
I'm happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post. I'm by no means an expert on digitization or video processing, but I'll gladly share what I know.
For what it's worth, the timebase correction on a VHS deck has nothing to do with whether the audio is getting ahead of or behind the picture. If you think about the way VHS works, it's not possible for it to have audio-video sync drift. Reasons your audio was ahead/behind include that your capture device was recording the audio on a device with a free-running clock without reference to the video clock, or that the video capture device was dropping frames.
Timebase correction just fixes up the sync pulses so they arrive in an orderly fashion, which improves the picture quality.
Great posts, thank you. It must be a joy to hold so many hours of footage. Even if 90% may seem boring to you, think of the legacy you have created for your descendents. I have a total of 45mins of family tapes, of which around 5mins includes footage of my late father - the only footage of him which will ever exist. It is a yearningly small amount.
I was wondering if the digitisation company provided any kind of report. The sawtooth graph of your audio and video sync issue presents itself as being a hardware rather than software issue, envisioning ammonitic erosion of a plastic spindle. I'm just wondering whether this was fixed with the (despite your heroic attempts to source) right hardware, or if a software algorithm was involved (handcoded, ML?)
Simply put, the entirety of 1 "frame" has more data than required, but a CRT TV would hide those "error margins" behind the borders. Your digital capture however has grabbed all the available data, and the pro would have done the same, but they would have then cropped it down to the desired area/resolution. You can see this when you compare the videos side by side, as the baby is "longer" in the pro version.
I'd be really interested to know what difference (if any) the S-VHS deck made compared to the regular one you were using.
I've got a decent capture setup (semi-Professional gear that captures at up to 10-bit uncompressed 4:2:2 - over 100GB an hour!) that I obtained basically for free since it is fairly old (early 2000s). Since good VHS decks are getting harder (and more expensive) to find, I haven't got a good[1] one yet. I'd be interested to know if the difference between the two decks was noticeable!
That was very insightful! As a Christmas present last year we paid someone to digitize all of my parents old tapes. It was awesome, but left off at the step of editing and I was disillusioned by the thought of trying to manually edit all of the clips. I might go back and try doing that now!
So I actually had a very similar experience, purchasing the exact same TOTMC capture device from Amazon and a quality JVC S-VHS VCR on eBay. And later a higher quality capture card.
I found any free video editing options out there difficult to learn and unintuitive. I ended up using Sony Vegas which was a big improvement.
In my case I only needed to offset my audio track to get it to sync and it was fine. However some of my videos have that same tell-tale edge tearing, I didn’t bother trying to fix it.
Did going through this ever make you think about trying to record more from other family members, parents or grandparents, still alive? Curious because I ended up building an app as a tool for my own family but it was more for making new recordings vs digitizing old ones: https://trysaga.com
Congrats, and thank you so much for sharing this. I've been planning out how to build out a personal archive/website to run at home, just for my family and disconnected from the internet, and mediagoblin looks like the perfect solution for hosting media in a more convenient way than just folders and files.
Kudos on an excellent writeup of a very worthwhile project. Your coverage of details from family and privacy to methods, process, tools, vendors, services, and frustrations is excellent.
Glad this was reposted as I missed it first time 'round.
This captures the HN zeitgeist for me;
Me: But it means some company has access to all of our home videos. You’re okay with that?
My sister: Yeah, I don’t care. You’re the only one who worries about that. Wait, you could have just paid someone to do that from the start?
Almost everyone on HN seems to be worried that a computer at, say, Google, knows about mundane things in their life (went to the grocery store at 4:43pm). My guess is that the ratio of worried/unworried is something like 90% on HN and 10% amongst normals.
I know plenty of normals who like to joke about Facebook or Google listening to their conversations because they've been shown ads that are related to things they've said out loud. They're joking but they still feel uncomfortable about a large corporation "knowing" so much about their life.
To your point, it's probably a minority but I'd guess it's more than 10%. There's a ton of stuff in the market (identity theft insurance, new VPNs cropping up, Apple's privacy-focused branding and marketing efforts (I'm not saying they're inherently better on privacy, they just are branding themselves as such)) pointing in that direction now.
Normals need to hear more stories of seemingly innocuous things like home movies resulting in identity theft. Maybe fear isn't the best way to motivate people on principle, but it does work. Imagine how many "security questions" and other PII can be gleaned just by watching some family's childhood home movies.
I guess it was a bit simpler for people born in the 70s.
For my part: Way back in like 2001 or so, I decided to digitize my family's collection of super-8 videos from when I and my sister grew up. I used a borrowed DV camera (with a firewire interface), the 70s projector and projection screen. Ended up with decent 480p quality. Used some ancient Linux/GTK-based editing tool to do the cutting. Ended up with what is now a 90 minute, 700 MB .mp4 file. I'm happy that I ended up keeping the audio track, recording the noise from the projector and my occassional giggles
It took about 1-2 days. Also I somehow broke that expensive borrowed DV camera (pretty certain it broke itself), so i paid like $150 to have it fixed.
Anywy, ~two decades later: I'm so happy I did all of that!
I have no home videos from my childhood at all- my parents never showed any interest in buying a camera, and they weren't common in my circles anyway. I think there's exactly one video of me before I was 20-ish.
That said, I do worry about all those family WhatsApp videos that my family shares and/or the videos that my siblings keep in their phones with no backup whatsoever. Maybe this post will finally convince me to put something together.
FYI, you can choose to backup all of your WhatsApp media. All of my WhatsApp photos & videos get dumped into Google Photos. Works on Android or iPhone.
I've done a fair amount of capturing VHS video, losslessly, and then rendering it down afterwards. You can get rid of a fair amount of noise, using a median filter in AviSynth, after capturing multiple copies of the video. It's tedious, and every multiple has diminishing effects, but a median filter with five copies of the video, is going to look noticeably better than a single capture.
I've got an 'even worse' problem - a box of about 20 different 8mm (or similar) reel-to-reel tapes, containing family videos from perhaps as far back as the 1960s, but certainly much from the early 1970s.
The tape tins themselves don't reveal anything about the media type or actual content.
Apparently there are some cheap (~A$500) devices that let you convert these directly to digital, but reviews and blogs suggest highly variable results, probably based on how well the tapes have been stored.
Paying someone to convert them is hideously expensive, however, and is generally charged on a per-tape processed rather than viable output basis -- which is why most people stump up for a 'single use' device and spend the time. On the upside, at least there's no audio track for these things.
I would be curious to see how well a dslr with a remote trigger and a nema stepper motor could capture an 8MM reel. The quality would be really incredible if done right.
The scene list spreadsheet strongly reminds me of how video editing was done in the 80s (in one Australian commercial editing company anyway): A pair of U-Matic machines under a pair of Sony Triniton monitors and a control 'console'.
Plugged into the back of the machines, presumably via an eye-wateringly expensive I/O card, was an original IBM XT computer running something called, from memory, "Shot Lister" but perhaps that was a generic term. Shot Lister was monitoring the timecode from the tapes and would generate an EDL, or Edit Decision List, for the editor's work. Various manually entered reference IDs plus U-matic tapes frame numbers lead back to the original 35mm negatives.
The EDL would be sent off, using a fancy new 3.5inch floppy via a courier, to another company to use the master negatives to "print" the final edit together.
I remember someone, often the 'new kid' in the suite, would be tasked with manually writing down timecodes to clapper board references when the tapes arrived containing the rushes for whatever was being edited. Overall, remarkably similar!
Completely off topic. Am I a bad parent? I just saw a baby sucking on the keyboard, and the mother simply said very calmly "do you want to key in something?". I would have immediately started shouting "ughh nooo... don't suck on the keyboard. Bad. Bad." Now when I see my daughter shout back when she can simply reply back, I wonder if it is I who taught her that.
Selfish self promotion: I wrote software that helps you browse and preview videos (see screenshots & 'scrub' through them or see filmstrips of your films)
The biggest lesson here? Do the digitization while you still have the ability to create the metadata. Do it while you remember or while the people who would remember are still around.
For someone who resisted hard using a professional service to digitize the videos out of privacy concerns, I'm extremely surprised they ended up creating world-readable gcs buckets for files!
For anyone not aware, the excellent DaVinci Resolve has a free version which has built in Scene Cut Detection. Feed it a clip, run scene detection and then it can cut into subclips in a few seconds. From there, you can render out those subclips from a timeline as individual files.
I can't find a single other comment among so many emotional messages seeking solutions, for even one other semi professional or Pro tool.
Obviously the first names are BMD Black Magic Design for Resolve which now includes the Fairlight audio workstation for free. And AJA the other end of the budget spectrum, only cheaper than BMD if you have any kind of obligatory work flow or more than a weekend project. Color space transformation so you can watch on wide colour gamut panels in anything close to captured quality comes to mind for what you leave AJA to manage but need to research and invent a new work flow for if using BMD.
This is incredibly delightful, thank you for sharing.
Now that you have reasonably high quality versions of the videos you can start exploring other things to “enhance” the videos. If you want to make a parent cry, surprise them with a 1080p (or more) version of their 1970s wedding that was transferred from Super 8 tape. I spent way too long exploring the options and trying my own models there, in the end I did some hand tweaking and used Topaz for the rest. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than the Super 8.
My mom had a service digitize our Super 8 movies from the 60s and 70s, well worth it but of course due to the cost of the film back in the day those films were already pretty short and my dad edited them (with an actual splicing setup using glue and later tape). I interviewed my parents a few years ago and have some MiniDV tapes I need to edit, it takes me so damn long to edit video, though.
I love that the authors' baby footage shows the vintage Apple ][, that's what I cut my teeth on.
To save time, he sent the tapes to a professional.
I don't understand why you wouldn't record the audio and video stream differently - with an SVHS player, you could output s-video and capture that at better quality and then audio separately from the RCA lines. And then use virtualdubmod to time it properly, then curate.
But then again, if it randomly got out of sync in recording, that could be annoying so maybe I don't fully understand the issue.
Yes, it's clear that using a broken capture device or a system that doesn't properly sync the timestamps between video and audio captures (ie: driver issue) is the core issue.
Just choosing a different capture device or finding one with less broken driver support would have been workable.
From what I understand of VCRs the S-Video output is only active for S-VHS tapes. Unless their recorder used those tapes it wouldn’t have been an advantage - or even work at all.
What he did do was use the 3 FBAS connectors for Stereo Audio and Composite video. Still subtle issues can crop up because analogue video is hard.
I temporarily moved back to my parents' house durning the pandemic and digitizing childhood photos and videos is one of the things I was planning on doing while I'm here.
Now I'm scared...
I did a project like this in 2006 and also struggled with Adobe Premiere's manual steps. I wish there was an affordable audio & video editor that created and edited transform scripts, with support for offline rendering. Then I could save the transform script along with the source files.
An ancient Premiere project file is unlikely to work in the future. To re-render or edit those old videos again, I will need to run a cracked ancient Premiere in a VM. That's a poor way to work with archives.
With a good transform script format, we could make software that renders the transformation on the fly. You could save a transform file with a URL to the source files. To display the transform file, your browser will download the source files, apply the transformations, and show it in real-time.
We could also use software engineering process tools on transform scripts: source control, code reviews, integration tests, declarative artifact generation like Bazel, etc. Do tools like this exist?
[+] [-] interestica|5 years ago|reply
Technology Connections (YouTube) does some good coverage of capturing/converting analogue video - hardware choices make huge difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY
There's clearly a need/desire for this kind of stuff (though it's sad how many times I'm approached as someone is near death). Don't wait til that moment to save the stories and memories that you have.
I've been back and forth about how much I want to dive in with this project. If anyone is local and really interested in some of it, drop me a line. There are some cool avenues I've touched - seniors, alzheimers, story capture.
[+] [-] danhorner|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] bronco21016|5 years ago|reply
I started down the path of doing this project for a family member after we found an old VCR and I had been playing with a few of the cheap HDMI capture cards.
I've had a world of hurt with video/audio sync issues and the recommendation he uses to grab the component to HDMI device led me down a path of searches where I finally found that my V4L2 capture with ffmpeg was using a different clock than the ALSA sound capture device. Using ffmpeg's -ts flag I have set V4L2 use 'abs', the same as ALSA.
I haven't done any extended length captures yet so I'm not positive I won't have drift, but on the shorter length clips it has worked flawlessly.
Anyway, thanks again for the link. His advice led me down a path that finally seems to have made the capture aspect of this project work!
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[+] [-] dyeje|5 years ago|reply
The capture part was easy enough, did it over a single weekend. I bought a camera that could play the tapes (~$100) and an Elgato Video Capture (~$80). Quality was as good as possible from the tapes and no audio issues. I also did not want to use a third party because I was concerned they might botch the job / lose the irreplaceable tapes / etc.
The editing took about a month, I've never done video editing before. I just loaded up stuff in iMovie and grouped stuff together as it made sense to me. Most of the time was spent just watching the videos (I think I had around 60 hours of footage) which was enjoyable and necessary.
In terms of sharing, I paid a friend who does video editing to make a supercut of all the best moments and I screened it at the family Christmas (many laughs and tears). I gave folks thumb drives of clips that were specific to them, but honestly I'm not sure if people even watched them. The movie format made it more digestible.
If anyone wants the Elgato, I still have it and can give it to you for the cost of shipping. Also happy to refer you to my friend for editing needs, he's very affordable.
[+] [-] mtlynch|5 years ago|reply
Your story sounds like the experience I thought I'd have. There'd be certainly a lot less difficulty if the equipment I got just captured accurately right out of the box.
I agree with you on the value of making supercuts of the clips. I've made two video montages from my videos, and those are the clips I most often re-watch.
[+] [-] mtlynch|5 years ago|reply
I spent much longer on this project than I expected to, and I learned a lot from the experience. I wrote this in hopes that it might be useful for others who want to digitize their old photos and home videos.
I'm happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post. I'm by no means an expert on digitization or video processing, but I'll gladly share what I know.
[+] [-] jeffbee|5 years ago|reply
Timebase correction just fixes up the sync pulses so they arrive in an orderly fashion, which improves the picture quality.
[+] [-] 867-5309|5 years ago|reply
I was wondering if the digitisation company provided any kind of report. The sawtooth graph of your audio and video sync issue presents itself as being a hardware rather than software issue, envisioning ammonitic erosion of a plastic spindle. I'm just wondering whether this was fixed with the (despite your heroic attempts to source) right hardware, or if a software algorithm was involved (handcoded, ML?)
[+] [-] neRok|5 years ago|reply
Simply put, the entirety of 1 "frame" has more data than required, but a CRT TV would hide those "error margins" behind the borders. Your digital capture however has grabbed all the available data, and the pro would have done the same, but they would have then cropped it down to the desired area/resolution. You can see this when you compare the videos side by side, as the baby is "longer" in the pro version.
[+] [-] betamaxthetape|5 years ago|reply
I've got a decent capture setup (semi-Professional gear that captures at up to 10-bit uncompressed 4:2:2 - over 100GB an hour!) that I obtained basically for free since it is fairly old (early 2000s). Since good VHS decks are getting harder (and more expensive) to find, I haven't got a good[1] one yet. I'd be interested to know if the difference between the two decks was noticeable!
[1] I consider the recommendations on this thread: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/video-restore/1567-vcr-buyin... to be fairly good at separating good VHS decks from the rest of the pack.
[+] [-] cowmix|5 years ago|reply
thx!
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[+] [-] kodt|5 years ago|reply
I found any free video editing options out there difficult to learn and unintuitive. I ended up using Sony Vegas which was a big improvement.
In my case I only needed to offset my audio track to get it to sync and it was fine. However some of my videos have that same tell-tale edge tearing, I didn’t bother trying to fix it.
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[+] [-] dredmorbius|5 years ago|reply
Glad this was reposted as I missed it first time 'round.
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[+] [-] billforsternz|5 years ago|reply
Almost everyone on HN seems to be worried that a computer at, say, Google, knows about mundane things in their life (went to the grocery store at 4:43pm). My guess is that the ratio of worried/unworried is something like 90% on HN and 10% amongst normals.
[+] [-] isoskeles|5 years ago|reply
To your point, it's probably a minority but I'd guess it's more than 10%. There's a ton of stuff in the market (identity theft insurance, new VPNs cropping up, Apple's privacy-focused branding and marketing efforts (I'm not saying they're inherently better on privacy, they just are branding themselves as such)) pointing in that direction now.
Normals need to hear more stories of seemingly innocuous things like home movies resulting in identity theft. Maybe fear isn't the best way to motivate people on principle, but it does work. Imagine how many "security questions" and other PII can be gleaned just by watching some family's childhood home movies.
[+] [-] tpmx|5 years ago|reply
For my part: Way back in like 2001 or so, I decided to digitize my family's collection of super-8 videos from when I and my sister grew up. I used a borrowed DV camera (with a firewire interface), the 70s projector and projection screen. Ended up with decent 480p quality. Used some ancient Linux/GTK-based editing tool to do the cutting. Ended up with what is now a 90 minute, 700 MB .mp4 file. I'm happy that I ended up keeping the audio track, recording the noise from the projector and my occassional giggles
It took about 1-2 days. Also I somehow broke that expensive borrowed DV camera (pretty certain it broke itself), so i paid like $150 to have it fixed.
Anywy, ~two decades later: I'm so happy I did all of that!
[+] [-] probably_wrong|5 years ago|reply
That said, I do worry about all those family WhatsApp videos that my family shares and/or the videos that my siblings keep in their phones with no backup whatsoever. Maybe this post will finally convince me to put something together.
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[+] [-] GrantZvolsky|5 years ago|reply
Video capture:
1. there seems to be no capture device on the market that has a linux driver
2. some capture devices only provide their drivers on a CD/DVD
3. elgato video capture works (as long as the computer doing the capture is fast enough to process input in real time, otherwise the output is laggy)
Video processing (linux):
1. there's a bug in blender[1] that introduces audio skew to elgato-captured footage upon rendering. the skew is not there while editing
2. kdenlive[2] works fine with no audio skew
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/6b74f99abd2f4c62e8093c...
[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/f6cd17269ea00766319388...
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[+] [-] Jedd|5 years ago|reply
The tape tins themselves don't reveal anything about the media type or actual content.
Apparently there are some cheap (~A$500) devices that let you convert these directly to digital, but reviews and blogs suggest highly variable results, probably based on how well the tapes have been stored.
Paying someone to convert them is hideously expensive, however, and is generally charged on a per-tape processed rather than viable output basis -- which is why most people stump up for a 'single use' device and spend the time. On the upside, at least there's no audio track for these things.
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[+] [-] verytrivial|5 years ago|reply
Plugged into the back of the machines, presumably via an eye-wateringly expensive I/O card, was an original IBM XT computer running something called, from memory, "Shot Lister" but perhaps that was a generic term. Shot Lister was monitoring the timecode from the tapes and would generate an EDL, or Edit Decision List, for the editor's work. Various manually entered reference IDs plus U-matic tapes frame numbers lead back to the original 35mm negatives.
The EDL would be sent off, using a fancy new 3.5inch floppy via a courier, to another company to use the master negatives to "print" the final edit together.
I remember someone, often the 'new kid' in the suite, would be tasked with manually writing down timecodes to clapper board references when the tapes arrived containing the rushes for whatever was being edited. Overall, remarkably similar!
[+] [-] peanutz454|5 years ago|reply
:(
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[+] [-] yboris|5 years ago|reply
Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/en/
MIT Open Source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
[+] [-] interestica|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] Cullinet|5 years ago|reply
I can't find a single other comment among so many emotional messages seeking solutions, for even one other semi professional or Pro tool.
Obviously the first names are BMD Black Magic Design for Resolve which now includes the Fairlight audio workstation for free. And AJA the other end of the budget spectrum, only cheaper than BMD if you have any kind of obligatory work flow or more than a weekend project. Color space transformation so you can watch on wide colour gamut panels in anything close to captured quality comes to mind for what you leave AJA to manage but need to research and invent a new work flow for if using BMD.
[+] [-] __mharrison__|5 years ago|reply
Resolve is wonderful. I've even put emacs bindings on mine.
[+] [-] pridkett|5 years ago|reply
Now that you have reasonably high quality versions of the videos you can start exploring other things to “enhance” the videos. If you want to make a parent cry, surprise them with a 1080p (or more) version of their 1970s wedding that was transferred from Super 8 tape. I spent way too long exploring the options and trying my own models there, in the end I did some hand tweaking and used Topaz for the rest. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than the Super 8.
[+] [-] zwieback|5 years ago|reply
I love that the authors' baby footage shows the vintage Apple ][, that's what I cut my teeth on.
[+] [-] rootsudo|5 years ago|reply
I don't understand why you wouldn't record the audio and video stream differently - with an SVHS player, you could output s-video and capture that at better quality and then audio separately from the RCA lines. And then use virtualdubmod to time it properly, then curate.
But then again, if it randomly got out of sync in recording, that could be annoying so maybe I don't fully understand the issue.
[+] [-] codys|5 years ago|reply
Just choosing a different capture device or finding one with less broken driver support would have been workable.
[+] [-] realityking|5 years ago|reply
What he did do was use the 3 FBAS connectors for Stereo Audio and Composite video. Still subtle issues can crop up because analogue video is hard.
[+] [-] httpz|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] mleonhard|5 years ago|reply
An ancient Premiere project file is unlikely to work in the future. To re-render or edit those old videos again, I will need to run a cracked ancient Premiere in a VM. That's a poor way to work with archives.
With a good transform script format, we could make software that renders the transformation on the fly. You could save a transform file with a URL to the source files. To display the transform file, your browser will download the source files, apply the transformations, and show it in real-time.
We could also use software engineering process tools on transform scripts: source control, code reviews, integration tests, declarative artifact generation like Bazel, etc. Do tools like this exist?