I recently pulled out the old late 80’s and 90’s Hi8 tapes out of the closet and have been getting all the hardware together to get them transferred to digital. I’m using OBS to get them on my PC. I’ve transferred a few short clips to test and used Topaz to upscale them and it’s really done a grea…

I’ll tell you what works pretty well for my Video8 files. it is not perfect, but plausible results and it retains the original look and feel of the video with not much destruction of details. I Deinterlace my source video(s) using Hybrid free tool (QTGMC deinterlacing filter) and export as Lossl…

@Akila has made some good model recommendations. Additionally, by default, your license can be used on two computers at the same time with the initial user license and we refer to those as seats. Also, your desktop will have faster speeds than the Macbook Air. You can check the benchmarking page to…

@Akila Useful tip when doing multi-pass with FFv1 as a lossless intermediary codec is to keep in Topaz’s native RGB48 pixel format, rgb colorspace (full range, by definition) until the final export back to H.264/YUV. It avoids repeated conversion and resampling on multi-pass between YUV and TVAI’s …

I don’t think Topaz uses RGB, not during while exporting at least. { "id": "ffv1-8bit-420", "encoder": "FFV1", "profile": "8-bit 4:2:0", "ffmpegOpts": "-level 3 -c:v ffv1 -pix_fmt yuv420p -slices 4 -slicecrc 1 -g 1", "ext": [ "mkv", "mov", "avi" ] },

Yeah, it doesn’t include an RGB48le encode preset by default in video-encoders.json, but you can add one to ensure that intermediary lossless codecs maintain that pixel format and colorspace - otherwise you bounce back and forth between pixel formats and colorspaces on each pass. Converting from RG…

Hey, excellent info from everybody. Really appreciate it! At the moment I’m about a 3rd of the way getting them ripped to my drive. I found out I have 21 60/120 minute tapes… lots of them! Once I get that done my plan is to take a few short segments of a few different instances… night/day/inside …

hey… so I tried that upscaling x2 is working really well , also some stabilization and adding a bit of grain is looking really good. Another quick question… I’m going from composite off the camera to an hdmi converter… then going from the hdmi to a hdmi capture card. Is this converting it to progre…

I am not sure, but I believe it will capture it as interlace. the best way to transfer your videos would be through a Firewire on a digital camera by loading your analogue tapes. i found this much better quality video transfer then capture cards. the better quality you have of a source file, the be…

Interesting. I don’t do it for all footage, but I don’t mind spending huge amount of time getting the most precious footage to the highest quality possible. So you pick the best of the two (or three). Could combining them in post possible yield better results? It shouldn’t. But if you shift between …

[image] Super 8 tutorial General If you still have the original tapes please find a decent company that has the right equipment and understanding to convert to digital. [Screenshot_20230328_170838] The scan on left was done on a cheap $400 Home scanner. The scan on the…

Late 80's early 90's hi8 video upscale

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