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Fig 1. Mold built up on the magnetic tape inside a VHS case. Azure Production have been transferring videos for over a decade. We have received many formats such as VHS, Hi8 and film in various conditions. Our job is to transfer them onto digital platforms at the highest quality possible. Before your transfer begins, we inspect the tape’s integrity, approximately 10% of the tapes we receive are in need of repairs, or cleaning. Sometimes we see mold built up around the spool, or damaged cases. (Fig. 1) Most magnetic tapes can last a very long time. We still get tapes dated back from the mid 1980s that are still in good condition. For films dated back in the 1950s, we notice that most are still in good condition, but some are starting to become brittle. The oldest film we’ve transferred was dated back in 1911 in fair condition. Below are …
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Why Transferring Home Movies to HD is Not a Good Idea
July 3, 2014 in Recent News, Video Conversion | Comments Off on Why Transferring Home Movies to HD is Not a Good Idea
Transferring from standard definition to high definition is not a good idea because your increasing the size of a video by blowing it up. This method is also known as up converting. A standard VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Regular 8 video tape has a standard definition (SD) frame size of 720X480. High definition (HD) frame sizes are typically 1920X1080. There are some other HD sizes as well, for example: 1280X720 or the older format 1440X720 (which is rare now a-days). 1920X1080 can also be written as 1080p and 1280X720 can be written as 720p. These numbers represent how many pixels are placed horizontally and vertically on a screen. As you can see from the numbers mentioned, SD is smaller than HD. So in order to make your footage HD, you have to increase the number of pixels on the SD format which is not available. However, if one were to do …
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Video Transfer – If you plan on watching your old holiday home movies this holiday season, consider having them professionally transferred to a DVD to make sure that they are still around for years to come. VHS tapes, like the ones your home movies are on, degrade from both use and time. This means that eventually, the VHS tapes may lose significant amounts of their initial quality or become completely unwatchable all together. If you have children, you may have found that when they were little they wore out their favourite VHS movies and these movies had to be replaced. Back when VHS was the most common video format, it was easy to find a replacement for these videos at a low cost. But the wear and tear your favourite holiday home movies are experiencing can’t be fixed – these are irreplaceable. While watching the tapes can cause them to …
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