This diploma documents analog video conversion techniques for producing
high quality digital video. The inspiration behind it was a shear amount
of badly digitized material on YouTube. The most useful information was
found on forums digitalfaq.com and videohelp.com, where people from all
around the world share their knowledge in video digitization. Members like
LordSmurf and Sanlyn selflessly share their extensive know-how gathered by
years of digitizing. Reasearch makes it clear, that investment into proper
capturing equipment is needed. The fact that most of it is hard to find does
not help either. Besides the expensive hardware, it is also a serious time
commitment as proper digitization can take a lot of time. In the end it all
depends on the state of magnetic tape and the quality of material on it.
Some tapes require scene by scene restoration due to color errors, time base
errors, drop-outs and artifacts due to damaged, improperly stored magnetic
tape or simply bad video mastering in the production of the cassette itself.
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