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Repair of old video tapes??

  • 01-09-2012 6:57pm
    #1
    chuckin007
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭


    Hi, I came across some of our old wedding video camera tapes. They are pretty degraded and the quality is pretty bad. They were taken about 10 years ago and are on Hi8 digital8 tapes from a sony cameracorder.
    Does anyone know where I would be able to get these repaired / restored and stored on avi or some other foramt I can stick on a hard drive for safe keeping? They are playing no problems but the pic quality is a bit snowey..
    Any help much appreciated.
    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Tactical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,542 ✭✭✭Tactical


    Have you tried tapes with other content on the same player? You could have a dirty playback head.


  • #3
    chuckin007
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭chuckin007


    Thanks for the reply. Yea.. I have only one player, the camera itself, but I do have some other recordings which play with much better quality so I dont think its the heads.


  • #4
    NealB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭NealB


    Get a player that works with your tapes and link that to a standard DVD recorder and record directly to DVD. If you want it as a digital file use handbrake or similar software to extract off the DVD. Mpeg Streamclip can transcode it what ever format you want.


  • #5
    chuckin007
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭chuckin007


    NealB wrote: »
    Get a player that works with your tapes and link that to a standard DVD recorder and record directly to DVD. If you want it as a digital file use handbrake or similar software to extract off the DVD. Mpeg Streamclip can transcode it what ever format you want.

    Thanks - Restoring the tapes is my main concern. I can get them off the tapes ok, but the quality is degraded, even when playing from the tape recorder.


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