Arctor

User Group: Members
Join date: 7-Apr-2006
Last activity: 3-Sep-2013
Posts: 2

Post History

Post: #198822
Topic: Idea: 'Sci-Fi Buzz' from the old Sci-Fi Channel - preserved?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/198822/action/topic#198822
Time: 7-Apr-2006 2:26 PM

Suntech: Thank you for the offer, but I will decline.

Preserving my VHS is an ongoing project of mine that started last year. In that time, a lot of what I thought I'd have to preserve has actually been published. (Brisco County, RoboCop the Series, Nowhere Man, etc..) This has made me shift my focus over to stuff that will likely never come out, like SciFi Buzz, FTL, and so on. They'll get done, sooner rather than later, because I think this kind of content lends itself to the learning curve I still need to go through. Importing from analog with quality, clean editing, proper authoring are all things I have to learn and, honestly, if I wanted to farm it out to someone, I've got friends local to me who have also offered. But these are all skills that I want to be second nature. And I want them done, well, the way I want them done. And that means I have to do the work. I want to do the work. I'm probably more anxious than you are to just load these tapes up and get cracking. But first, I need that import device and it's just not feasible for at least a couple months.

Kind of a downer, I know. But when I've got something to share, I will.

Post: #198760
Topic: Idea: 'Sci-Fi Buzz' from the old Sci-Fi Channel - preserved?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/198760/action/topic#198760
Time: 7-Apr-2006 9:16 AM

I have 30+ hours of Sci-Fi Buzz and SF Vortex from the better days of SFC. That's the good news.

The bad news is space and money limitations meant that I recorded them off-air onto VHS at SLP, the 6-hour, lower quality mode. I recorded them (ususally) without editing the commercial breaks, so there's bound to be some goodies in there, too. The shows include many of Harlan Ellison's commentaries, the John Carpenter commentary regarding "They Live", lots of Bob's Basement, etc. The SF Vortex episodes include J. Michael Straczynski's appearance.

I also have several hours of FTL Newsfeed, the one-minute newscasts from 150 years in the future SFC used to run during commercial breaks.

I do not have a capture card yet, but one is in my not-too-distant future and I have lots of VHS that's getting the preservation treatment. I'm still on the fence between an MPEG card (to generate DVD-ready MPEG) or an analog-to-DV card, which would allow for many more editing options, but would mean re-encoding to DVD-ready MPEG. I tend to want the option to edit more freely, but would welcome opinions on the matter.