Do it Yourself?

 

Want to do it yourself?

We can do as much or as little as you like - some people are very happy to have a raw, cleaned, digital video file that they can edit themselves.

VHS only stores 300 lines of video, and these were interlaced so that early TVs could show them clearly. We want to get all those lines and remove any noise - to get detail and have a clean picture.


We use a Pioneer 6 head eSVHS system to scan as much of your tape’s signal as possible.

We enjoy editing our own home

movies, and your personal experience

and preferences can really help

you decide how you want to

edit your own home movies.


Here’s how to get the most out of your old tapes

  1. 1.Play the tape from a multi-head VCR - this reads your video multiple times simultaneously for high quality.

  2. 2.Use a VCR that has S-video output to enable higher  quality colour and contrast reproduction.

  3. 3.Clean your VCR heads professionally before converting.

  4. 4.Use a dedicated analog-digital converter, in preference to converting via a digital camera

  5. 5.Run a digital noise cleaner on your uploaded footage, this removes the fuzzy effect VHS tapes.
    (this is a very SLOW process!)

  6. 6.De-interlace your recording.
    Note: If your VCR quality isn’t high enough you might not even see the comb-like effect that interlacing has on your footage.

  7. 7.Crop your footage - remove the black areas and flickering on the edges of the footage.


Let us know if we can help out in any way.