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I have been watching Don Giovanni on youtube and the highest quality is VHS but lets face it VHS only looks good if you are watching it on a 17" tv from about 10 feet away. But I have seen you guys take these crappy looking videos and do something extraordinary. I have Photoshop, After Effects and Vegas. What might I do to make this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU

look at least twice as good. I am not talking badass but at least decent enough for a 30" television on DVD. The audio I can handle myself but the video is just out of my reach. So can you help me? anyone?

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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I don't know what they did.

Probably captured to lossless. I suspect a time base corrector. (Especially one build into the vcr).

 

So far, I've been underwhelmed by the effectiveness of TBC's though. It's early in my testing. But before I got them, I did read a lot of depressing caveats.

 

(If someone would freakin' finally come out with software tbc capture function, it should theoretically be able to overcome all the timing limits that hardware has).

 

I have a D-Vhs that does a remarkable job of de-noising. But it doesn't seem to do as much tbc-ing as I expected. Perhaps because I haven't tried home video yet. (I suspect that our local stations all used vcrs, for everything, but never bothered to use TBC with them).

 

Mitsubishi HD-2000U. Google that at videohelp & doom9's forums. Should get the subject going for you.

One day I found... 10 years had got behind me. Next day was worse.

 

Download  shows from Cable DVR (Updated! Yes, it needs a rewrite, but it's worth slogging through, anyway).