Help cleaning old VHS video

[Ron]

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Help cleaning old VHS video

Some older VHS tapes I'm trying to archive onto non-magnetic (tape) media
are just down right noisy - grainy, etc - you know the drill.

I heard that the Canopus ADVC300 is very good for this (though in terms of
Canadian dollars, I'm not sure if it's worth it without seeing it perform
first hand).

1) Does anyone know of any software that can do any part of this so-called
'clean-up' of older VHS video?

2) Does anyone know if I can archive these old tapes in digital format, and
use this source materials then to clean it up with the Canopus unit after
it's been digitized? (As in, when funds are available - I just don't want
these tapes to get any worse than they are now).

TIA

 

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In article <QpXId.123$Ob.15@edtnps84>,
"Ron" <imagitek@hotmail.com> writes:
> Help cleaning old VHS video
>
> Some older VHS tapes I'm trying to archive onto non-magnetic (tape) media
> are just down right noisy - grainy, etc - you know the drill.
>
> I heard that the Canopus ADVC300 is very good for this (though in terms of
> Canadian dollars, I'm not sure if it's worth it without seeing it perform
> first hand).
>
> 1) Does anyone know of any software that can do any part of this so-called
> 'clean-up' of older VHS video?
>
> 2) Does anyone know if I can archive these old tapes in digital format, and
> use this source materials then to clean it up with the Canopus unit after
> it's been digitized? (As in, when funds are available - I just don't want
> these tapes to get any worse than they are now).
>
If the tape is time-base stable enough to capture with whatever
technology that you are using, the tmpgenc package can do a good
job of denoising. but is time consuming. I'd suggest using the
denoising even if using the ADVC300 anyway.

John