Greetings all. I’d like to present my VHS to DVD preservation of all 13 episodes of the classic British children’s program “Tugs”. As per Wikipedia:
Tugs (Stylized TUGS) is a British children’s television series first broadcast in 1988. It was created by the producers of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Robert D. Cardona and David Mitton.<sup><span></span></sup> The series dealt with the adventures of two anthropomorphized tugboat fleets, the <span>Star Fleet</span> and the <span>Z-Stacks</span>, who compete against each other in the fictional <span>Bigg City Port</span>.
I used to love this show as a kid. I bought the old VHS tapes off of eBay years ago intending to convert them to DVD. I only just got around to it in the last couple of weeks, so I thought I’d share the result here for others to enjoy and hopefully share with their kids.
It’s only been officially released on home video once in the late 1980s, although clips from the program made their way onto DVD thanks to the American kids’ show “Salty’s Lighthouse” which had re-purposed the footage. I did not have access to those clips however, so all the content presented on this DVD are straight from the VHS tapes.
I’ve cleaned the episodes up a bit with AVISynth to reduce the VHS noise and stabilise the image (although some warping remains). I’ve also cleaned up the audio a bit to reduce the humming and overly powerful bass. Finally, I created a set of basic menus for episode navigation in Adobe Encore.
Technical details:
Format: 6.49gb PAL DVD-DL
Video: 720x576 @ 25i, 4:3
Audio: 224Kbps AC3 English Audio
Available now on MySpleen:
http://www.myspleen.org/details.php?id=18362
Screenshots:
http://imgur.com/a/e7xxC/all