OLD SCHOOL CAMCORDERS.... A Must Do Before It's Too Late
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UPDATE!! The converter I used has a new Firmware update and it fixes the corruption issues I had so It's Awesome! I did also try two other models from Digitnow and they both gave me tons of reliability and Audio Sync issues so I would say this is the one to get. - geni.us/Qgv4U
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I actually made a video short on housing regeneration using a mini DV camcorder two years ago. Found the process super insightful. ruclips.net/video/4Y8hI-aQKkc/видео.html
Ayee, by chance have you have it to someone? I have some when I was a child during Christmas and birthdays and this has been something Iv always wanted to do but it can get expensive or I just don’t wanna mess them up but this looks like the best way!
I still have my Sony DCR-TRV130EPAL .
Since 2001 and it looks and works like brand new 🙂
For video8 and Hi8, you absolutely should use a s-video connection instead of the yellow composite cable.
You still sharing the converter?
The cheaper software-based converters that plug into your PC are so much better and you wont experience the corruption problems, you can also pick what format you want to record it in!
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Yeah I'd prefer to use that. I could even have use it as an old webcam
are you saying that one of the cable converters to usb works better? hmmm, what about the wait time? can you stop the record/download or do you have to let it play out the full time? sometimes some tapes get stuck hence you have to monitor them I am assuming because of age but if you can stop the recording from the unit its going to manually, you don't have to go back to the top of the tape. just curious
Which are you referring to? I'd like to know
Can you elaborate? I have old 8mm tapes im looking to convert to edit. Do I need an old camcorder to convert these into digital files?
I'd definitely use it and pass it along. I was at my moms on Thanksgiving Day and she was watching old VHS tapes and she mentioned getting them converted.
Dude! I been doing the exact same thing with my old camera! Been digitizing a bunch of old tapes from the 90's and 2000's. Keep it up bro!
I've been doing this for awhile. I either use my '09 Mac Pro with a firewire 400/800 port to capture the Mini DV tapes. I use imoive 9 (To capture digital files) or the capture card form Blackmagic Shuttle USB 3.0. You'll endup with a much better file. I then use Premier to upscale the 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9/1080p so you can watch it on a larger modern TV…it can be a lot of work and it’s not perfect but a great way to see the old home movies.
This was really cool, and I really loved your reaction as you realized you were watching your mom at the age you are today. Keep up the great work and God bless.
I love this-- hey, you just found like this wonderful blessing. This amazing time machine that you can share with loved ones.
Already got it - digitized a video shot of faux therapy session I had with an acting class partner I had the hots for and we were playing we were married - good memory (esp that we never got married!)
I’m a teenager and all the sudden I REALLY want to buy a Camcorder and then digitize it myself!
Another idea to digitize analog videos: play it in a TV and film the screen ;-)
I would love to covert my vhs tapes but I haven't been able to get my hands on a working vcr.
He looks like the grown up version of Russell in UP movie.
LMFAOOOO
Bro 💀
Talks like him too lol
Bruh
Lmao that’s so racist
You're talking about "digitizing" those tapes, but miniDV format is actually already digital. Yeah, it's stored on a tape, but not in the same way, like VHS for example (which is analogue format indeed).
To transfer your video from miniDV to hard drive your should connect your camera through FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface and use any video editing software to capture video. In this way transfer will be going through byte by byte data copy and it's produce video the same quality as source. An you used analogue to digital conversion which is lossy.
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Yup doing it now. Need to adapters to get this to work nowadays....and best If you have a Thunderbolt equipped Mac. FireWire to Thunderbolt 2 cable, Tbolt 2 to 3, FireWire 400
to 800. Fun times!
@@twothbeave or an imac from 2011 ;)
It appears that Windows 10 does not support Firewire so I used an old Vista laptop for the transfer.
@@kirbystiening5510 Is that actually true? I used a firewire card a few years ago to grab some old tapes just fine.
Would love to use this. My dad dies when I was 2 years old, I'm 35 now and recently found a bag of tapes that belonged to him. Would be amazing to see what he was like besides just the stories. I will pass along when I am done as well! Thank you!
I know its been a year but did you look at the tapes?
Did you look at them man?
@@mijaumiaumiao I'm wondering the same lol
Sorry for your loss my brother dies at 2 months old I was 13
he still dyin'?
“High 8 cameras Vs Ari Alexa”
Yes please
maybe an ARRI Alexa or if not a cinema camera at that time vs a regular camcorder from the same time!
Old cinema camera vs 2020 camcorder that would be mad
@@Provolt yes!
@@Provolt 2020 camcorders are just a phone camera sized sensor with an optical zoom lens. Pretty much any digital camcorder.
@@THEMATT222 The guys from Corridor did this with a RED
Gene... I am literally in the process of converting over 100 tapes right now from my family. Your timeline is so so good on this. I was sticking one of these in my cart to do more homework on and then maybe buy. I have an old pinnacle transfer unit but it is showing its age. The process is so time-consuming but is complicated for me because there is no monitor on what i am using so i have had to build out a transfer station with a monitor, etc... to do what i'm doing. To have a second unit without needing a monitor?! yes please. I am transferring VHS, Hi-8, and mini-DV tapes. As well as some audio but I am doing that through an interface into ableton. Regardless, enjoy the process and the memories, we are walking a similar path in that regard right now.
I'm Going to ship this over to ya! Keep an eye out for an e-mail from me.
Also, who wants it after???
@@PotatoJet Loving this plan, and thanks man! I'll happily document some of the process and pass it on after!
@@PotatoJet I can do a spanish review of the unit :)
@@PotatoJet I totally want it. My dad is REALLY old and he has a bunch of family home videos that we have no way of watching. Please.
@@PotatoJet My grandfather recently passed away and he left behind a ton of tapes from his travels, art galleries (he was an artist), family gatherings, etc and it would be amazing to digitize all that
My mom has been begging me to digitize our family movies for years...this would be dope.
Quarantine is a perfect time for you to do it then.
Umur kami amat sangat panjang,
@@ratuadilFF apaan si?
Bad bad boy. Listen to your mother boy😂😂 lol
It’s hella easy
I simply must throw a comment into the ocean of other comments, since this is a topic near and dear to me over the past few years. Some notes on convenience and quality...
This doohickey looks amazing for CONVENIENCE. It's definitely better to get an archiving project done and have fun with it rather than never do it. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, right? BUT... along with the audio sync and corruption issues Gene mentions, there are a few other things to note if you also want to maximize quality. And I don't just mean tweak the last .01% of the picture, I mean dramatically improve things.
Old analog tapes are all NTSC 480i (480 scan lines that contain picture information, although technically it's 486 but really only for pro stuff, but nevermind that nonsense, LOL!). Interlaced video has one FIELD every 60th of a second, but note that each field is a separate image taken at a separate moment in time! So, if a device or a process converts it to 30fps, you are either smushing two images together and creating blurry motion, or you're throwing away every other field and getting a chunky image with have the resolution. Analog NTSC video should, whenever possible, be captured as interlaced, and each field converted to a frame for a 60fps video. It looks WAY better. I get convenience, and the simpler devices don't do this, but I mention it because it's worth doing. This video is 24fps, so I don't know if Gene captured at 60i, 60p, or 30p. Blackmagic Design makes a good doohickey I know can do interlaced, and my old Matrox MXO2 mini can as well. Dropping a NTSC 480i video into a 60fps timeline in Premiere works well. Premiere doubles each line in each field and you get the proper look. Since RUclips doesn't do 60fps at 480p, I do everything at 1080p60 and leave black bars on the side (unless I have a letterboxed image or anamorphic).
Also, s-video is worth using if available. The detail, and especially color, are noticeably better. Hi8 and Super-VHS will obviously benefit the most, but standard VHS and 8mm can look a bit better via s-video as well. Playing back on the very camcorder that recorded something is generally a safe bet, but a working S-VHS VCR or Hi8 camcorder is a step up.
DV is digital and you get what you get via the Firewire cable, where you're actually copying digital data instead of sampling an analog picture. Don't use a capture doohickey like this with DV. Get a Firewire card or find an old PC with a Firewire connection.
Ideally you'd capture to an avi file with 4:2:2 color subsampling, but now we're getting closer to that .01% stuff. :-)
There, I threw some ideas into the ether. I'd share a link or two to some home videos I'm proud of, but the algorithm might do weird things.
Good comment. So are you positive that this device deinterlaces, or is it just a question? If it deinterlaces by default, it's no good in my book. Also does anyone know if it does only NTSC, or can it do PAL/SECAM as well? In my experience products from far eastern countries tend to do both, but this is US product so it might be NTSC only which means it is no good for us in Europe.
I can confirm video8 and hi8 both show a similar improvement using s-video compared to composite. Even on a tape that was recorded on a video8 camera lacking s-video out.
If you can on a svhs (compact or not) and/or Hi 8 with Svideo output use something like a retrotink to bob de-interlace the video into a 480p signal over HDMI and then use a capture of some way to save the video. Works great for retro gaming s video or if your old console can do it RGB. Composite isnt too bad but doesnt look as good
@@Rotary_Lover_89 As long as your device that converts to HDMI is able to properly convert each interlaced field to a full frame and create a 60fps signal, you'll probably get decent results. Do note, however, that such devices crop the image on all sides to simulate the overscanning done on an old CRT television, which reduces detail somewhat. You'll also be relying on that device to get the color and luminance levels correct (a lot of those HDMI devices blow out bright areas to pure white). So do compare your digitized results to how it looks going straight into a good TV.
@@theleeoverstreet oh the retro game community is stickers for that. Mike chi and his retro tink products are top notch. If you wanna spend more go open source scan converter or even more with the XRGB mini Frame meister. Just look up Retro RGB or My Life In Gaming covering those devices
Absolutely no one:
Potato Jet: Old school camcorders vs Red
Pee Kay S.A. Can you tell which is which though? Pretty tough
Digital 'pixels' or dropped frames.
I used to have a sony camcorder. It stored data into a CD and I shot my first short film in that camera. Didn't know how to edit, so we shot it by pausing the footage and shooting the next scene. So NO RETAKES. Good times lol.
F
imagine shooting to the last scene and realised their was a mistake in the beginning. rip.
@@THEMATT222 Or you change the storyline...
I'm thinking I want to see this video...
I actually still have it. It's a horror short film that we took two days to shoot. Then we messed up the last shot and the we couldn't change it 😂
Ayy im early got ive got nothing to say
Jotato pet
I do. (that's it, the word "I do" was what I would like to say)
I've been hiding from a huge box with literally hundreds of hours of skateboarding footage from 1992 through to 2000, a mix of 4 hour VHS tapes, dozens of VHS-C tapes and Mini DV tapes. My old Sony video camera I bought in 2001 used to be able to do 'pass-through' capture, so you could run the signal in from a VCR and it would come out of the camera in to editing software without having to record it to DV tape which was amazing but sadly it has stopped working. Plus...it isn't so easy to connect up via FireWire these days. I need some motivation and a way to capture that means I don't need to double record in real time possibly weeks of footage, so if you want to send the capture box to the UK it would be much appreciated! Funny thing with skate footage is that now it isn't so much about the tricks we landed but the things in-between. As you talked about, it is the people no longer around, the interactions, the places and people captured at that moment in time. Despite these tapes intimidating me with the amount of time I'll need to spend on capturing them and editing them...they are a treasure and a blessing. - Paul
I'm in the exact same position as you with the same tapes and everything.
The capture device isnt that special. For video8/hi8, you should connect a s-video cable. For digital8 or minidv, you should use a firewire cable.
If you have a lot of tapes but feel unable to convert them, you could look into a service like legacy box or whatever.
Yes! Used cameras FTW!
I saw your Sony video today as well :)
David Eastham same
Thanks Gene, your content is great and I have tons of old tapes & vhs to convert , I should probably get on that soon before it’s too late I’ll probably order that lil converter too. Blessings 🙏🏽🎥💯
Wow the real MC MAGIC..what up boy..cool to see u on here.
It’s so special to find footage like this, especially since it’s often long forgotten. I recently digitised my parents’ home video tapes, from 1990 all the way up until 2009. So roughly 15 hours or so of VHS-C tapes. It was so interesting to see my parents’ life before I was born, their excitement of purchasing our home, then seeing how happy my grandparents were when I came along in 2001. It’s a special feeling seeing history like that. So many things have changed, but often, a lot has stayed the same.
Yes, the same here. The hospital where I was born was taken down about 2 years after my birth and it's so weird to see how old fashioned it looked in 1987 while it probably wasn't anything out of the ordinary compared to other hospitals.
My dad fortunately already edited all the footage he shot (he was working at a company with a professional AV-department) so we only have about 7 hours or so with the best bits.
it's different though how it changes: a friend of mine gave birth to a son somewhat years ago and at some point I went to visit her place and had my modern videocamera with me. It's so weird (and almost unpleasant) to see such pristine, razorsharp images compared to the old images I'm used to, that have some noise in them (rolling bars and such) and slightly bad sound at times.
Gene: "Hey Steve, give us a history lesson on tapes"
Steve: *begins to tell him the history of home videotapes*
Gene: "WHOA WHOA! I just want a history lesson"
Steve: "Uh..."
the idea of sending the capture device around is so beautiful good potato jet always think about other 💕💕
jet: lets digitize tapes
jet: holds miniDV tapes into the camera
yeah, you literally just needed to connect it to your computer and COPY the data
He's talking about Hi-8 tapes in the video which are analog. MiniDV look very similar and are digital.
He showed digital and Hi 8 tapes saying "look what i found,you might remember these".Chillout.Online folk are getting so snippy anymore.
I would like/appreciate it to digitize my parent's wedding tapes, thanks :)
I recently found a box load of old camcorder tapes. In defence of old technology, it’s great how long the analogue tapes last for. They don’t seem to deteriorate as much as you think. It’s important to digitise but that doesn’t guarantee it’s longevity if you don’t back up your files periodically. So always keep the tapes! I’ve also noticed how much I filmed and how many videos I made back in the day compared to nowadays even tho it’s so easy to make video these days.
I would love to have this my grandpa was a film maker and recently just passed away and I have a bunch of his tapes.
Ari Saperstein his or her ?
Sorry for your loss
His
Wait, your grandma was a dude?
Sorry for your loss! Definitely try and get those tapes digitized. I'm sure you'll come across some beautiful things!
Imagine Gene's kids down the road talking to their friends and their friends are like "my parents just use a camcorder or their cellphone to record us, what do your parents use?" "Oh, just a RED or an ARRI Alexa, nothing special". 😂
Remove the camcorder, those things are more or less dead these days. Cellphones all the way, outside of enthusiasts with compact /bridge/action or system cameras.
@@Traumglanz he doesn’t have to remove if he don’t want to
I did this same exact thing during the quarantine for my old mini DV tapes. My panasonic camcorder actually came with a firewire out, so it connected into my mac with a dongle. The best part of doing it that way is the import directly into Final Cut, the software would automatically control the camera and the tape playback so you don't have to sit by it and hit the stop record button.
haha lucky you. I have a camera with firewire out, but nothing that would accept it!
All MiniDV and Digital8 camcorders have a firewire out. And everyone should use it to transfer the videos because MiniDV and Digital8 are digital so you get a exact copy of the data from the tape. Using something like a Composite capture device will degrade the quality a lot.
Composite capture devices are fine for Video8 and VHS etc. but for Hi8 I'd recommend using a S-Video capture device because Hi8 has higher quality than what Composite can do.
@@Pasi123 This comment needs to be pinned.
@@JIYkp absolutely
Cassette tapes actually age better than people think. 8 tracks, VHS tapes, etc wear down with constant use. As long as they are in a dry, normal climate, they are fine.
there isn't going to be "normal climate" for 30-40+ years straight
It would be great to see a video on old school professional camera's like the Sony DVW 790WS and how they compare to modern camera's today.
Oh man! I had so many old short film I did pre youtube. Should of taken better care of them.
For MiniDV and Digital8 capture you should use FireWire because they are digital you can get an exact copy of the data. Using something like an analog Composite capture device would degrade the quality a lot.
For analog Hi8 tapes it's best to use S-Video capture device because they have higher quality than what Composite can do. Composite is fine for the older formats like Video8, VHS etc.
Thanks man your a hero
Or you can get a professional video decks to get higher quality with capture card with components signal
That’s rubbish, I have vhs videos that have been in my garden shed for 8 yrs and on a shelf in a garage for 28 yrs , all 47 of them work perfect , along with my audio tape collection that I started when I was 18 ,,,,now 57 cheers Shane uk 🇬🇧
I’m currently in the process of trying to convince my relatives to let me preserve my family history, so I really appreciate this video. While my mom actually digitized all of our tapes already, I know my grandma has a ton of slides that I want to digitize.
I have many tapes of passed relatives within my family in a variety of places, I tried to convert my old tapes with an Elgato but it didn't work, I'd be very appreciative to get to have one of these
I'm just going to be honest, I am so glad you've opted for an "off center" shooting style in the new place. Validates my own choices and also feels less "RUclipsR" and more "PRO FILMMAKER", not that I need to ever explain that stuff to you, you've been a cinematographer for like 5 years longer than I have.
Challenge: Film an entire vlog on one of those and convert it.
Bought it from your link. I hope you get rich, you deserve it. Thanks for the vids and tips
You've brought a lot of memories back to me.
I have a few suggestions :
1st I've noticed bad sound , use a better quality cable, cheap cable may give a lot of artifacts (weird colors on video and sound clicks and glitches). I had this experience with VHS VCR and camcorder.
2nd I'll try to connect the camcorder to my TV via scart adapter or RCA inputs and try to record to an USB hard-drive connected to TV, and hit record from TV's remote. This should give the best quality of recording, of course using quality cables. You can use any analog around $30, like the ones used in Hi-Fi to connect CD player to amp. In this scenario I'll check if the recorded files can be played on PC, other TV sets or they work only with TV that was used for recording, it different for each brand.
Back in the day, I've always copied my 8mm ( Hi8) tapes to VHS, because there was no way to share my recorded video to others, there were few camcorders on our market and different standards, so that your friend may not had an 8mm camera. VHS on the other hand was very common. Also this was a kind of back-up, if you had accidentally erased the 8mm tape, which usually was recorded many times because these were harder to find in the stores and more expensive.
Around 2002, I digitized many tapes using my desktop computer and a PCI internal tuner (which actually was pretty bad), DivX encoding was top back then.
My dream camera in the 90's, was a VHS Panasonic, pretty massive, huge lens compared to Hi8, a lot of buttons, a real microphone, a larger monitor ( which was actually a small CRT inside the viewfinder), no flip screen, shooting from the shoulder like a real reporter :) . That was great, better image quality and you didn't have to copy anything, just put the cassette in the player and watch. It looked like this br.pinterest.com/pin/821766263232967179/
Great videos, your passion for everything that you do, in front of the camera, when editing and commenting is inspiring, a strong positive energy.
Kari and Gene, stuff like this reminds me why I feel like I love you guys as much as possible for not actually knowing you, if that makes sense. I'm glad you guys are in the world. I'm actually surprised this is on the main channel. Best regards to you and your families. Please stay healthy so you can keep making videos that one day will be as heartwarming as the ones you dug up.
It would be amazing to see a camera comparison with an external atmos recorder on those old cameras, although digtisation should be done with FM RF capture and VHS-Decode.
Gene, I'd love it if u could send me the tape. We have lots of old tapes shut away in a cupboard that my dads been wanting to see for ages
I have a Hi8 Samsung SCL700 and one tape cuts off about an hour in and it says "R.EMG/Eject" and another tape won't even play it says "L.EMG/Eject" other tapes play fine, so I am assuming it's a tape issue not camcorder, how can I fix this?
Today I'm pretty early 🤓🤓🤓🤓1min on post damn hope this is sponsored 😹😹😹
Enjoyed.. race you guys to the next upload 🤓😂😂
I got here within the first 10 seconds but it's more like luck since I saw it through the recommendation not notification (even though I hit the all bell)
@@THEMATT222 nice bruv my app always gives me notifications.. like 1 day later 😂😂😂today I was amazed to see 1 min🤣🤣🤣
@@yronnsothee Yeah, me too! There is always an delay which could be annoying when trying to get to something first.
@@THEMATT222 very much bruv
@@yronnsothee 👍
Waiting for about an hour only to find out the file is corrupted? Sounds like Limewire. lol 😆
thats the scary part.. do you sit around for hours watching? aww man multi tasking heavy lol. I already have a tough time committing in a relationship... lol
Definately don't deinterlace when you are archiving. This permanently destroys information.
The lighting was definitely better with the Christmas lights 😂
I have been importing my family's VHS tapes from my childhood and even some super 8 footage from my dad's childhood. It's been a huge blast from the past! For mother's day I made a short compilation for my mom of old videos of her being a mom to me, she said it was one of the best gifts she ever got!
I am using a Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle and a VCR/DVD player, and my computer. The Intensity shuttle has multiple inputs similar to your device and then sends to video to my computer via USB.
When I'm done with the VHS tapes I plan to start importing my own personal Mini DV tapes from my first camera and hopefully make a video about my progression as a videographer/editor.
My father did something similar with my grandpa's Super 8 tapes and it was super nice, half of my family crying in christmas because they had literally never seen the footage from 50 years ago, not projected or anything like that. Quite an experience to see.
I think that happens in a lot of families. The person in charge of filming either forgets about the footage or the hobby starts to grow over their heads because they don't take the time to do something with the footage into account. Throw in the fact that most people really take homevideos (as in: first birthday of x ... 10 minutes of footage of the birthday-baby crawling around the floor, all shot by and adult from face-height, instead of crouching down and changing angles and such)
Don't get me wrong, it's not all that bad and not everyone is into that hobby as much as other people, but it can be a factor why someone who likes to shoot video is eventually put off the hobby as reviewing all the boring material quickly takes too much time.
A friend of my mom contacted me as I still had a Hi8 camera around and she still had her familytapes (20 in total or so), but no working device anymore for playback.
So she could borrow mine. About a week later, she already replied: 'Damn... it is sooo boring... Marie's birthday at the horse-farm... one round of horseriding... another round of horse-riding... and another one... and that for 15 minutes straight... I'll be editing that down to something like 2 minutes or so...'
ay i'm really early lmao
EDIT: Wait.. I'm First!
Congrats
@@THEMATT222 Thanks bro, I really appreciate it.
Yes please send me i have 12 tape but am far from USA
I have about 40 or 50 tapes going back 13 years to when I was 8 years old
I strongly recommend using Topaz Video Enhance AI on such recordings. The upscaling works miracles on old footage. Another thing is DAIN algorithm that interpolates frames and makes those old recordings look so alive.
I had a Digital 8 Sony camcorder in 2000-2001 and in 2001 when my daughter was born i took a lot of footage of her as a baby then i lost my camcorder and i kept a box of tapes for all these years until recently i bought another Sony Digital 8 camcorder and started watching videos of my daughter,me and my wife and wow it's a strange but beautiful feeling,definately worth saving old memories from tapes.
Does it record I ln that retro 90s 80s look?
@@MoejiiOsmanTV yes but i think for that look HI8 is the best choice.
Make sure to use the highest quality Analog plugs when you are digitizing old things. A lot of old cameras have multiple outputs you can use.
Most will have the option for S-Video or Component, which will give a much better picture than the standard Yellow plug.
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RF Coax (Channel 3/4) < Composite (Yellow) < S-Video < Component (RGB) < VGA (Blue PC monitor)
great tip! I have a few of the various types of connectors but I guess you have to test in real time to see if that would ever become an issue.
I made a complete documentary film on an old Canon HV30. I still use it! Amazing cinematic look! New tech isn't always the best tech. I have both and still go back to the old stuff quite often.
I laughed way too hard at the "A or B?!?!"
Also smiled real wide at your Dad's response
I’m actually in the market for one of these! Would love to be part of the “digitizing train” and send this along to someone else who needs it afterwards! HMU!
I would love to get this converter. I have lots of tapes of my family laying around.
Potato Jet, what a cool nickname! Ha ha. Ok Potato Jet, my name is Steve Gehrke and I'm an old farther compared to you, but I'm setting up to convert some old home movies from the late 60's and early 70's! Really! I converted them from silent Super 8 to S-VHS around 1990 but most of my family still hasn't seen them! I narrated most if them I knew the context to so... but it's time to go digital and share with my family. Especially since I have few hours of my first wife (rip) who passed when both my two kids where both in diapers so they didn't get to know their mom really. Now they are both flirting with 30 (yrs 94 and 96 bdays) and to get to see a few hours of their mom when she was health and happy and early after breast cancer diag would probably floor them to no end Especially since they don't know about these tapes/videos!! So, Mr Potato Jet sir (he he he) Gene, do you still have that digitizer you were testing out and offered to pass along??? I know it's been bout 3 yrs since your video and offer but I figured it would not hurt to ask right! And I'm disabled due to breaking my neck playing high-school football (not paralyzed but arthritis in my neck now messes with nerves and makes using my arms and hands difficult) my point being I have only my disability income and thats like embarrassingly low so any "shparing" of equipment like the digitizer would be huge! And I'd pay for it (some anyway)to be fair! Like would $30 + shipping work??
Anyway, I really enjoyed your video and had a couple good laughs and even learned a thingie or two!😅
So, did you marry your very pretty young girlfriend my man? If you were smart you did (cause you ain't exactly Fabio type material ha ha ha). Joking, joking, don't get yer pantys twisted in a knot. (I'm so messing with you - hope you can take some teasing my friend. I think you can. ). So Mr. Potato Jet Vlogger man, sir, consider my request and let me know please??!! And if your now married accept my congratulations please!!
I look forward to hearing back from you sir! Until then thank you for your time and attention! God bless....
Steve G.
I would love to know what kind of camera it is
6:11 sound quality is more important than video quality
KERRY: "DIDN"T THEY DO LIKE MUSIC VIDEOS LIKE THIS AND STUFF?"
DIRECTOR: "Hmmmmmmmmm" *ADDS CAMCORDER MIRROR EFFECT TO MUSIC VIDEO TREATMENT*
Hey Gene! And before the video cassette era we had 8mm tapes on a reel. My family has ancient (1950s-60s) video footage from before color came into the world and everything was monochrome. Somebody still has the old reels and I still have the old camera and a battery powered 8mm viewer! Ah, the good old old old days. 👍🏻😁 Some of the 8mm are actually in color, too. Now that would be a comparison video for the ages. What was before 8mm? I think pencil drawings on paper that you have to flip through for the image to ”move”. 😂
I want that converter. We have lots of tapes here on our drawer and idk if it's still up. I might wanna digitize them because there's a lot of things that was captured when I was young.
My moms family pratically documented all the of the late 80s and 90s on tape and we need help digitizing them, we have a good 20-30 tapes ranging from vhs-c to Hi-8. So I wouldnt mind getting the capture thing to help out.
I feel sad I wasn’t born in the vhs and tape era... I so wanna feel nostalgic looking at these beautiful cameras..
I’d love to my mum and dad have loads of tapes from when they used to travel but they are starting to degrade and we are slowly but surely loosing valuable footage and I would of course love to pass it on to some other subscriber
they do degrade but not that fast,as long as there kept in a dry place.i have had VHS tapes for over 30 years that are still fine.and i have seen some un kept tapes go to crap fast.
I found a old Multinorm VHS Recorder, a old Sony "Portable" CRT Monitor and a bunch of old tapes that were lying around my house from my dad's old job. From my birth to different trips that happened when I was a kid, it has been quite the experience to see all of those videos again. I've been digitizing non-stop with this nice setup for two weeks and now this video shows up! Some close friends have also enjoyed the idea to explore more about old analog and digital tapes, which has been really fun to rediscover. Thanks for the video! It has been quite emotional to hear the same things I felt when I saw my old tapes from you!
I keep hitting reload thinking you'd have a Canon R5 video..... :/
I’d love this. Just discovered some hi8 and digital8. Was going to use a service but I’d rather do this. I’d definitely ship it out to someone else after I’m done.
There are mirrorless cameras with that form factor u wannabe lol
Yes, yes, yes!
Need to digitize my childhood tapes, and am afraid they may have gotten spoiled or will get spoiled eventually.
Would really appreciate it. 😊
I bought this camcorder in 2005, my son was born in 2007. Someone stole my phone and all of his baby photos and videos along with it and then a few years later Email was wiped clean. No idea how still to this day, but I used to email myself all of his photos and videos. Broke my heart. Well, I literally just found one cassette that was not broken in my storage and it was a cassette of my son his first two years of life. He’s now 17. Now I’m gonna try to convert it. I’m so happy . The battery won’t hold a charge tho so I’m looking for a replacement
I have my whole life on VHS tapes...and need to transfer them badly. That would be very helpful....66 years old and I remember making that choice...VHS or BETA...I chose VHS....and it was the right choice...thanks for considering me to get this...
Uhh can someone help me outta here? I have a Sony DCR DVD 610, and I wanna use it for RUclips live streaming....HOW DO I? It has a output as analogue Red Yellow White Cable. But no software to collect the output 💀
Dude, you don't even know! I have tapes back to the 8mm and super 8mm. VHS, and those DV cassettes. My 8mm atapesmre a bit too brittle to convert, unfortunately, so is you have a work-a-round for that, I'd be interested in hearing.
I collect sony 0lux cameras from thrift shops. I have probably 40lbs in batteries for them now all refurbished.
I also have a tube type sony trinicon betamax camera (late 70s) I converted to digital output.
Hi8 and MiniDV were a lot better than the VHS tapes I remember!
Hey Potato. I started back in the time when mini dv tapes were the thing... & capture several poetry readings & music events. I would like to be on the list to receive the Digitizer !!!
thank you
Truth about tapes is that they'll basically last forever when kept in the right environment. But considering many people don't keep them in the best conditions, that's where problems can arise.
Edit: Though it really isn't as much of a concern as you're making it out to be. Unless they get moldy they're basically fine.
Edit 2: For any viewers, it's also important to note that this device isn't really going to give you the best quality possible. For that you will need a device that plugs into a computer, using S-Video connections, recording in lossless video, and deinterlacing with something like QTGMC. But the time commitment it would be to process everything through that pipeline would be insane for 30 hours of video, so this is probably the more sensible solution. For someone like me, who only has about 8 hours of old home movies, it's not as big of a deal.
Edit 3: 9:10 This kind of problem can be mitigated by either a better capture device, or an intermediary device, ideally with a time base corrector built in. It could also be a setting built into the camera. Some devices will play the signal they're receiving, static and all, while others will show the blue background when signal strength drops below a certain threshold. The switch between tape signal and device signal can be a problem for certain capture devices without a Time Base Corrector wrangling in the vertical blanking interval.
Edit 4: 10:08 This could be due to the USB drive, but USB 2.0 is fast enough to transfer uncompressed SD video, so it shouldn't have a problem with the MP4s I'm assuming this thing spits out. The problem arises from the way capture devices handle audio and video signals separately. For instance, video capture software will ever so slightly adjust the FPS and sample frequency of the audio and video signals every second to ensure proper sync.
RUclips must be listening to me again because I have been messing with an oldschool Hi-8camera as well. If this gadget is out there I'd love to have it so I can digitize my collection of tapes!
Id love to get my hands on that, I have a video from 1998 that I used a camera that would convert HI8 to DV and it doesnt look good... There is 8 hours of video, I woudl commit to sending it to the next person on the list also!
Jonas - My dad was my age when I found him in Winden.
Wow i need this, im trying to make a documentary of my cuban granny, she left cuba in Fidel Castro´s time, and my dad recorded a lot , this will be super helpfull to get the proyect on wheels
u can digitize tapes direct to final cut pro x if your camera has an iee1394 port, u will need a cable from iee1394 to firewire and an adaptor to thunderbolt , it works I've been doing it for a week now with some 20 yr old tapes also. cheers
the cool stuff about it is that it recognizes the clips and splits your footage everytime the video was cut!
The audio sync issue is likely due to dropped frames, causing the video to gradually pull ahead of the audio. A TBC (time base corrector) would amend this. Also worth mentioning all this old video is INTERLACED and maximum quality and motion must be achieved by deinterlacing. If you do it right, you can separate the fields into their own frames get 60p.
That being said, "your mom is gonna love this" and "I sent some clips to my dad" is what this is all about. The cheap devices are perfectly fine for brightening your family members day with some nostalgia. However, if you're going to use this footage for an actual film project (or if you're just a preservation nut like me) you need to properly deinterlace.
I routinely run into sealed unused HI-8 and VHS-C tapes in thrift shops, It's a fun method for filming if you don't want to go the more....hardcore method of double 8mm, super 8 or super 16, but all in all. Still fun.
Really bad capture quality. Please find a Canopus ADVC-110 or ADVC-300.
I hope you know that old video cameras shot at 60i, deinterlaced properly gives you full 60fps, i say that because 60p on a 24p timeline looks like shit, put it on a 30p or 60p timeline
I still have handycam from 20 years ago
My first year of my life was all on film but then on camcorder until I was about 10 then it was an iPhone :D
Man I loved the old digital camera footage quality. Feels like taking a fresh breath of air when I look at the quality
That's because most of them used CCD sensors with global shutter, not the crappy CMOS sensors with rolling shutter.
You can always tell a CCD camera from how rock solid the footage looks.}
Footage that comes from a CMOS sensor always has this very slight wobbliness on it.
There are some CMOS sensors with global shutters, but those cost a lot more than a similar CMOS camera, and are mostly used for scientific purposes.
Ive been looking for a way to convert my dads old DV tapes ! I luckily came across a JVC Camcorder at a thrift shop and have been able to play them but I've looking for a way to share them with my family and for a converter like the one in this video! Thank you for demonstrating