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Do you know which version you were using?

Moth3r said:

I seems to me that capturing analogue video is unfortunately becoming a dying art.

These days anyone and their gran can hook something up to a DVD recorder and hit the record button, and there is precious little info or comparisons on capture card specs.    

Bumping this old thread because I agree with Moth3r and because I want to find a nice capture card. 

I too bought a set top DVD recorder and recorded some stuff with it, and while the picture is not bad, it's horribly interlaced and just isn't as nice as I would like for it to be. 

Can anyone recommend a nice capture card capable of old analog captures for a decent price?

I would like to be able to capture video from PS3 games as well, but it's not essential that whatever card I get does both. 

I'm working on a preservation of a cartoon that was originally release in flv format (which was later pulled and then re-released in a censored format). 

I've demuxed the flv into avi/mp3 format, and I'm now trying to do some clean up in virtualdub. 

Here is what they look like right now:

I have this file loaded into virtualdub with some filters suggested by throwgncpr. 

My first question is, can anyone make any recommendations for other filters they have tried and had success with?

My second question is, has anyone used MSU Cartoon restore? I can't seem to get it to load without crashing virtualdub. 

Thanks for any help. 

- You may have to right-click and view image to see the vdub filters I have added. 

I have a vague memory of the last scene switching to letterbox on HBO. Guess I'll check the tapes when I get home. 

Should have a rough version of this this week. It's got a nice, old VHS feel to it :)

No, just a test to see what it would look like.

Some quick clean up work done by Throwgncpr:

$15. It's a small amount, but I just can't do it because I'm kinda broke and on principle. 

I also wonder how good of a copy the guy could make. I have no idea what his source is like or his ripping skills. 

I think I can make this look passable, and I kind of want it have a little "age" to it anyway. 

I've cleared a couple projects and I'm moving forward with this now. I'm just going to use the youtube 480p of this and clean it up. 

Unless someone comes up with another copy or feels like paying that youtube user "for his time" this will have to do for now. 

I guess I should just do that. Don't want the guy to change his mind and lose the one chance I have to get it. I've spent more money on stupider things I guess. 

I've pretty much finished building my new editing rig, so I should be able to get this project going fairly soon. I don't guess anyone has run across a nice copy of the original HBO/SW intro

Someone at FE is going to send me a sample of some Netflix caps that he did using a screen cap program. Fingers crossed that it looks good. 

Very awesome! Would love to check these out. 

Got the captures from Silverwook. I'll work on piecing together a composite when I get some time. 

Still looking for the original HBO intro to SW (including the HBO flying letters)

Would love to see a DVD of this.

I tried a Netflix streaming capture method that i found on a forum that uses a Firefox plugin. It didn't work. I think Netflix has blocked whatever it was that worked. So I too am wondering if a capture card would work.

There was a copy of the BBC broadcast floating around a few years ago that had some awful interlacing. Is this the version that's up at spleen?

The Netflix streaming version of the wonder years has a different version of the theme song and most of the  other songs have been replaced. Real shame.

That's no moon... 

Preserving a OOP or unreleased material is no more legal than adding released material to the preservation DVD, it's just less likely to draw attention from studios.

Awesome. That doesn't look bad at all for a 30 year old tape. Noticed any unique pan/scan?

msycamore said I would love it if somone could help me out with this to speed things up as I have no experience of doing DVD-menus, let me know and I'll send you the material for it. Thanks.

I would make the DVD/menus, but only if you're not in a super rush to see it.

Awesome! Were there HBO watermarks throughout the movie? Can't wait to see it.

I gladly put up with/didnt know any better.

SilverWook said:

The HBO is time compressed, it runs slightly less than two hours even accounting for the missing Fox Fanfare on the recording. Not as sped up as a PAL video would be. This can be slowed down if need be?

Upon closer examination, the second more problematic tape is not time compressed. I'm leaning towards the idea it's a bootleg of a pre 1985 video release. Might be the 1982 "for rental only" which I have in my collection, and would be a better source for the vintage look, or to patch the HBO recording?

I wouldn't change the time compression, since it's how it was originally broadcast, I would make any patches with sped up video.