I don’t do many of these anymore, so it was nice to get back into recovering some memories for a Frolic Street neighbour.
Only three 3hr tapes, but 27 scenes to extract from some rather tired & re-used old tapes. Thankfully no mould present, but the tape was a bit stretched at some points, causing strange Slo-Mo effects!
After a LOT of winding & re-winding, eventually everything was extracted & ready for some digital trickery.
In to Adobe Premiere for a little clean-up of the video & some audio balancing, then it’s time to encode the files into something playable on multiple devices.
As the main recipient is a parent…. The first conversion was to a DVD format, along with some pretty menu’s, and recording to a high quality disc or three.
Then the files were converted to the x265 .MP4 format for compatibility on Apple/Windows/Android/YouTube etc, for sharing amongst the more digitally aware members of the family.