Digitally Remastered, what exactly is that?

[Trik]

I'm always hearing how older movies are being digitally remastered and rereleased.
What exactly is that?
Is this a process we can apply to old vhs tapes during the process of converting them to VCD or SVCD?

TIA
Trik

[MOVIEGEEK]

Q:"Is this a process we can apply to old vhs tapes".A:Not unless you have
$100,000 to buy professional video equipment.What digitally remastered
means is they take celluloid film and transfer it to a computer and edit
out audio and video artifacts frame by frame.When you make a vcd/svcd from vhs you are in a sense doing the same(analog>digital).

[Trik]

So theres no way for the average home user to take tapes that have degraded and "remaster* them, clean up the video, get a better image?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Check your local phone book or search online.I've seen companies that
will do this,I doubt that they can do as good a job as THX can.

[vhelp]

trik,

I've often wondered about this one too...

Actually, you can, in a crude, cheap, sloppy, fill in the rest here, kind
of way.

Tools needed are:
* vdub,
* filters
* AVIsynth
* filters
* a good MPEG encoder
* knowledge of use of filtering, and encoding
* and a whole lot of time to waist on trial and error, till you find
the right combo, that works, per VHS tape. Every vhs tape will have
some variation of ware and tare.

But, in a sense, this is as close as you'll ever get to "digitally
re-mastering" vhs or to vhs tapes. Well, it's so not worth it, he, he...

But, in a sense, this is one way of "DR" minus the $100,000 equipment.

-vhelp

[Trik]

Well the tapes I'm trying to preserve are not replacable. Their not commercial recordings. Their also in pretty bad shape.
So I'd like to make digital backups and make any improvmenats I can.

Tools needed are:
* vdub, (I have this)
* filters (where can these be obtained?)
* AVIsynth (is this freeware?)
* filters (where can these be obtained?)
* a good MPEG encoder (I assume you mean a hardware encoder? Can you recomend one?)

[vhelp]

trek,

* AVIsynth is in the tools section (your left)
it's a website you go to I think, and download latest ver.

FILTERS:
--------
vdub: search for "Donald Graft", he has a website full of filters
AVIsynth: same here. after D/L this, see whatever links their are,
however, this already has a handfull of filters built-in. You have
to view the reference (at their site)
tip: just do a saveAs html and save this reference to your hd for
later reading.
MPEG encoder: i was refereing to tmpg or cce, though I use tmpg.
Also, I do most my encodes via frameserving, again you can find out
more about this to your left, FAQ has info on frameserving, ie
from vdub to tmpg or avisynth to vdub or avisynth to tmp, or whatever
combo you wanna try for that matter.

If you tapes were recorded in EP mode on your VCR, then you'll NOT get
any really decent quality, as EP give you more recording time w/ reduce
quality, the reason behind 8hours vs. 2hours difference.

Good luck.

-vhelp