Process:
1. Commercial PAL VHS tape, SP recorded
2. Sony SLV-SE710 connected to Domesday Duplicator
3. vhs-decode --chroma_trap --recheck_phase ...
4. gen_chroma_vid.sh -v pal ...
5. QTGMC
6. ffmpeg ... -preset veryslow -crf 20 -maxrate 5000K -bufsize 5000K -movflags +faststart output.mp4
Audio:
1. Direct to F3 field recorder (audio is stereo but the two stereo tracks are 100% the same)
Badly damaged video. Audio should be mostly in sync but some parts were cut to sync to the video. There were no closed captions on this tape.
Process:
1. Commercial VHS tape, SP recorded
2. Sony SLV-N81 connected to Domesday Duplicator
3. vhs-decode --chroma_trap --recheck_phase ...
4. gen_chroma_vid.sh -v ntsc ...
5. ffmpeg ... -preset veryslow -crf 20 -maxrate 5000K -bufsize 5000K -movflags +faststart output.mp4
No captions on this tape. Hi-Fi is too noisy so this audio is from the RCA jacks.
Process:
1. Commercial VHS tape, EP recorded
2. Sony SLV-N81 connected to Domesday Duplicator
3. vhs-decode --chroma_trap --recheck_phase ...
4. gen_chroma_vid.sh -v ntsc ...
5. QTGMC
6. ffmpeg ... -preset veryslow -crf 20 -maxrate 5000K -bufsize 5000K -movflags +faststart output.mp4
Promotional video distributed in the UK regarding Super Mario All-Stars and other Nintendo information.
Process:
1. Commercial VHS tape, SP recorded
2. Sony SLV-SE710 connected to Domesday Duplicator
3. vhs-decode --chroma_trap --recheck_phase ...
4. gen_chroma_vid.sh -v pal ...
5. QTGMC
6. ffmpeg
Audio is linear output as hifi-decode kept crashing and the sound was too noisy.
Even with -crf 15, the film-grain-like noise in the original image gets blurred.
Process:
1. Consumer VHS tape with EP recording from terrestrial (possibly second generation tape)
2. Sony SLV-N81 connected to Domesday Duplicator
3. vhs-decode --NTSCJ --chroma_trap --recheck_phase ...
4. gen_chroma_vid.sh -v ntsc ...
5. ffmpeg ... -preset veryslow -crf 15 -maxrate 5000K -bufsize 5000K -movflags +faststart output.mp4