>If somebody digitizes the videos i can supply login information to >upload it to the server for public access, pls let me know
Vincent, I have decent quality copies of: Everywhere (from NTSC u-matic promo), audio sync is a bit funny, good in some places, off in others, but the video is like that.. :) It appears to be telecined from PAL, I tried to fix but didn't have much luck, otherwise quite enjoyable Jewel (from NTSC u-matic promo), there is a slight glitch near the middle when my first u-matic deck ate the tape (argh!).. I edited out the sparkles and theres a few slight audio dropouts there.. I also have Shining Road from the 1997 Cranes Much Music special, recorded onto a S-VHS deck from DirecTV satellite. TDK tape at high speed, so hopefully still excellent quality . I'm trying to locate the tape and will convert both the whole special and the video. The format is 704x480x29.97 fps 8000 kbps 384 kpbs audio mpeg-2, and should be good to use for a dvd without any reconversion. I'm using a Matrox G-400-TV for conversion with Virtualdub + Huffyuv + smartdeinterlace with a touch of temporal noise reduction, and the Tsunami encoder. I also have a tweaked copy of Fuse in LAME max quality stereo VBR MP3. I fixed the levels mismatch between songs and did separate parametric eq on each track (original sounds like it's a master for vinyl.. very screechy). I also tweaked the azimuth on my Onkyo 3 head deck for the tape and calibrated the speed with a nortronics calibration tape and frequency counter. I think it's much more listenable than the original. :) If you email me a login (ftp if possible) I can upload them. It's about 340 MB total so far. Brad Baylor (sixthofmay on the web forum) - To unsubscribe to inthenight, send an email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with "unsubscribe inthenight" in the body of the message. For further information send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. http://www.starblood.org/
