why haven't you digitized your VHS tapes yet? if you don't, you're going to lose those precious memories forever, they have a limited shelf life
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why haven't you digitized your VHS tapes yet?
frick em. I delete my pictures after I take them
Then why do you bother taking a photo in the first place?
to be a narcissistic ass
so people don't think you're weird? I started pretending I do shit on my phone in the subway so ghouls don't suspect I'm not one of them. seems to be working so far.
Why pretend? Find something to read on your phone.
What a normie question
For the memories. If I pantomime taking a photo and make a 'click' sound, I remember the moment vividly.
My most precious memories will go with me when I die.
Can't find a capture card to do it.
Four years ago I digitized a VHS. It was a family tape from 1990. On it I saw my 6yo self and my childhood best friend. I cried for weeks, had to go in therapy, and almost ended my life several times.
Never watch your old family tapes.
I started digitizing my old tapes yesterday, I saw old footage of my brother and I when we were 5 and 4 years old, I bawled my eyes out. I want to preserve these but watching them is incredibly painful.
I accidentally recorded over the tapes when I was a kid. That's what happens when you don't mark them.
Might be better to send them out at that point.
My memories are all stored in my brain and if I want to watch and relive them I just get high as frick and think about them.
copy to dvd-rw then rip dvd then erase dvd. repeat.
Finding one of those is difficult, and I have hi8 tapes too.
>why haven't you digitized your VHS tapes yet?
because they're in functioning order and i still have a vhs player, also in working order
> they have a limited shelf life
i have vhs tapes from the start of the 1980s that are in perfect health.
> copy to dvd
they're pretty good if you want to preserve interlaced video. 9/10. would use again.
> be me
> on fricking television as a 6yo at some event in the city
> recorded it on beta cassette
> we stashed it away
> sometimes it would be brought out to show relatives
> embarrassing
> fast forward 6 years..
> come home from school with friend to watch video of me again
> i see it's already out
> it's in the beta machine
> i press play
> it's fricking gone. wiped with an episode of days of our lives
> moronic mother blamed me for not write protecting it or marking it
> haven't been able to find the original broadcast ever since
frick everything and everyone. that was a devastating day.
>because they're in functioning order and i still have a vhs player, also in working order
Dude, vcrs and tape are tempermental pieces of shit. You never know when it's going to eat or snap a tape. You gain nothing by putting it off.
>Dude, vcrs and tape are tempermental pieces of shit.
they can be. thankfully it's been very rare that i have had any malfunction like tape being eaten. i can only ever recall maybe two or three instances when that happened. never had a tape snap - thankfully.
> You gain nothing by putting it off.
yeah, you're right. i should do it sometime.
>that was a devastating day
Lol who cares, did you even do something funny while on the air or just wave at the camera?
i remember we were told off for waving at it and don't look directly at it. bunch of us kids from school were followed around for a few hours by a news reporter and camera dude, capturing our reactions to what we were seeing: artists, musicians, performers etc. only 10mins or so was aired on tv out of the several hours we were there.
I did a few years ago.
>tfw parents recorded literally everything in slp mode
I digitized all of my family’s tapes a few years ago as a Christmas gift for them. Probably spent around 300 hours recording and editing them all. It was tedious but fun. I found out recently that they assumed I just paid some company to do it so that’s cool.
On this topic, I deinterlaced the videos in a way that made each field its own frame and then doubled the frame rate, but I’ve forgotten how I did that. Does anyone know how to do it? When I deinterlace in handbrake it just combines the fields and keeps the same frame rate.
iirc you have to set the framerate to 59.94 and the deinterlace option to bob.
already done and backed up
everyone should do it because you might lose them eventually. I've lost a lot of things moving through the years.
i already did with any tapes i cared to preserve
im not smart enough to be able to use https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode so i just capture with obs and deinterlace with ffmpeg
Converting tapes to digital is such a rabbit hole, man. You'll go crazy and spend too much time and money trying to squeeze the most quality possible out of them.
Eventually I decided that what matters most is the memories. When I watch the DVDs I made with my parents they don't give a shit about the color accuracy and brightness levels. They just want to see their children as kids again.
Well the first step is to get whatever you can, that way they're backed up. Then you can leisurely go down that rabbit hole and get better versions later on. Better to have something than nothing in case something happens.
If I have a VHS player with both HDMI and composite output, would it be better to capture the HDMI output with a HDMI capture card, or is there benefit to using a composite capture card?