MrBrown said:
Its bad that LaserDisc is no longer produced, and that it is impossible to find a small private LD-pressing factory where this idead could be released for fans in the forum as LD. :) This isn't a joke, I would love to have adywans revisited on VHS or VHS style.. but in LaserDisc it would be really awesome!
Or you could use a slightly better tape format that gave comparable results to laserdisc. Such as S-VHS or Hi8.
I'd actually be interested in seeing how a modern transfer of Star Wars would look on a straight dupe to Video 8, Hi8 and S-VHS. You know to compare the formats.
Bingowings said:
Commercial VHS tapes were usually produced at high speed on industrial machines which often produced less than perfect (even for VHS) results.
A television broadcast taped at home would often be better quality than the commercially available version of the same material.
I thought there were taped versions of the last OOT airing in 1995 and they did not look as good as the official VHS tapes.
Of course if you had the master tape used by the studio (likely Betacam SP), that would of course be better than VHS and even an high end laserdisc capture. In fact if people want old transfers preserved, it might be worth seeing if anyone has a friend of a friend who they know at a TV station who would totally let them steal an old movie tape they used in the 90's.
For instance, were there any tv airings of the Star Wars THX versions in widescreen in PAL? A studio tape if it could be found and successfully smuggled out would probably be a lot better than the laserdisc rips.
Ditto for THX-1138 if it was ever aired on tv in widescreen. If such tapes were still lying around, the tv station would probably wouldn't notice if they went missing. They should have a newer digital tape they would use to air the movie today.
I know that sounds crazy and highly illegal but hey, it can't be as hard as acquiring a 35mm print of Star Wars and finding a place to scan that, right?
A Betacam SP tape would probably look comparable to the Gout dvd, maybe even better.
doubleofive said:
I've hit a roadblock. No matter how close I follow Ady's excellent directions/settings, I get framerate issues all over. Repeated frames, missing frames. I don't get it. And I only have 17 days left in my Sony Vegas trial.
Have you considered simply buying Sony Vegas. The latest version is I think 11 and it was less than $100 in a store. It is a very good editing system and I think very easy to learn and operate. I cannot understand why you never hear about any TV studio of production company using it. (you can always purchased a specialized software for more advanced video effects and graphics.) But a lot of people online say it works well for them.
Fun fact: My parents bought me version 4 in 2004. I think it was around $600 but with a student discount, I got it for around $400.