Hello, I'm a fan of your work, I do this service here in my region Aracaju, Sergipe - Brasil, there was a time when I got tapes that another company didn't digitize, they claimed to be virgin, they didn't watch the meter and in fact they were recorded on a dvcam, another situation was tapes recorded on D8 where I believe, they tried to reproduce in Hi8
I recently discovered 6 mini dv tapes, went to archive them. Spent hours to find an old pinnacle capture card from 2005 , spent hours to fix my old core 2 quad pc and get that running..then spent 4 hours to clean and replace every capacitor on that capture card because all of them had leaked. Then spent more hours to find the installation disk..then few more hours to find the camera software disk. Finally after 2 days of struggle i got the setup working. First two tapes i went through transferred without a hitch. The sony tape transfer software automated everything. It would rewind and start recording from beginning of the tape , it would automatically trim each clip in separate files. After transferring 2 tapes & at the 3rd tape after 15mins it said "recording in hdv can not be played" & then i remembered my dad had a sony fx1e professional camera back when i was a kid & turned out rest of the tapes are all hdv + i discovered few more that were hdv.. the fx1e was last used in 2009..i hope it is alive enough for me to transfer the tapes over firewire.
Pinnacle studio circa 2005 gives me PTSD. I’d just capture composite, straight forward. If I charged $1000 a tape to capture via 20 year old pinnacle studio software it would be enough!
Aha this reminded me of digitizing my digital8 tapes. order a firewire adapter off of amazon, it ends up being one of the scam ones that just crosses random wires without actually translating anything, order a mini firewire to usb cable that also doesn't work, start fishing thru my old computers hoping one of them has a firewire port on the side, find a laptop from 2008 that does, realize i need a double ended mini firewire cable, order that, spend hours trying to get the damn thing to connect...just to have to sit there and go thru all the footage in realtime. hours and hours of footage. all in all it was about a week of suffering lol
@@gotmemories just love how Sony messed with our brains by using the same profile for all these different formats. - and yes HDV was a very specific hybrid format that was designed to compete with Digi-beta news cameras. (they were very expensive)
Another great video. Sooo important to know what you have before sending it off and don't trust anyone. It's heartbreaking that anyone would be told their stuff is unreadable when it's just incompetence on the part of the company they hired. Ugh! As much as I understand why, I still wish my Dad had kept all of our 8mm and Super 8 films after he had them converted. Oh well. Part of my work coming up will be to take that content and clean it all up, and upscale it. Do you offer upscaling and enhancement as an option? (Yes, I know it's time intensive.)
Yes all what you say is true. Heartbreaking for people to get back ‘bad news’ from laziness and greed. I used to offer a lot of upscale offerings but I am just overwhelmed at the moment and the higher end offerings are on pause because it’s 5-10 x more work for 30% more money and the overwhelming popularity of high quality SD 480 mp4 transfers is the main focus at this time.
Just out of curiosity, what is your workflow for capturing native HDV Videos over Firewire? I usually use HDV Split to capture and then run the files through Media Encoder or Handbrake to deinterlace and get the file size down. Encoding does take awhile but I usually just put a ton of files in a queue and then do other things while its going so it's not a huge deal. Great video by the way!
Gotta love when you start a capture, make sure it completes successfully, take detailed notes as it runs and then... realize you never actually clicked the "Capture" button! LOL Rewinding now....... 😅
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Hello, I'm a fan of your work, I do this service here in my region Aracaju, Sergipe - Brasil, there was a time when I got tapes that another company didn't digitize, they claimed to be virgin, they didn't watch the meter and in fact they were recorded on a dvcam, another situation was tapes recorded on D8 where I believe, they tried to reproduce in Hi8
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i love your rants
Excellent! They’re being more frequent!
@@gotmemoriesive also found to never leave the deck on auto for switvhing from sd to hd its best to do it manual. I stil use hdv for me
I recently discovered 6 mini dv tapes, went to archive them. Spent hours to find an old pinnacle capture card from 2005 , spent hours to fix my old core 2 quad pc and get that running..then spent 4 hours to clean and replace every capacitor on that capture card because all of them had leaked. Then spent more hours to find the installation disk..then few more hours to find the camera software disk. Finally after 2 days of struggle i got the setup working. First two tapes i went through transferred without a hitch. The sony tape transfer software automated everything. It would rewind and start recording from beginning of the tape , it would automatically trim each clip in separate files. After transferring 2 tapes & at the 3rd tape after 15mins it said "recording in hdv can not be played" & then i remembered my dad had a sony fx1e professional camera back when i was a kid & turned out rest of the tapes are all hdv + i discovered few more that were hdv.. the fx1e was last used in 2009..i hope it is alive enough for me to transfer the tapes over firewire.
Pinnacle studio circa 2005 gives me PTSD. I’d just capture composite, straight forward. If I charged $1000 a tape to capture via 20 year old pinnacle studio software it would be enough!
Aha this reminded me of digitizing my digital8 tapes. order a firewire adapter off of amazon, it ends up being one of the scam ones that just crosses random wires without actually translating anything, order a mini firewire to usb cable that also doesn't work, start fishing thru my old computers hoping one of them has a firewire port on the side, find a laptop from 2008 that does, realize i need a double ended mini firewire cable, order that, spend hours trying to get the damn thing to connect...just to have to sit there and go thru all the footage in realtime. hours and hours of footage. all in all it was about a week of suffering lol
That situation happened to me with Hi-8 vs. digital8. For a minute I thought the Hi-8 was in PAL but it was digital 8 instead! 😄
D8 static w audio in a Hi8 player, it’s obnoxious!
@@gotmemories just love how Sony messed with our brains by using the same profile for all these different formats. - and yes HDV was a very specific hybrid format that was designed to compete with Digi-beta news cameras. (they were very expensive)
Another great video. Sooo important to know what you have before sending it off and don't trust anyone. It's heartbreaking that anyone would be told their stuff is unreadable when it's just incompetence on the part of the company they hired. Ugh! As much as I understand why, I still wish my Dad had kept all of our 8mm and Super 8 films after he had them converted. Oh well. Part of my work coming up will be to take that content and clean it all up, and upscale it. Do you offer upscaling and enhancement as an option? (Yes, I know it's time intensive.)
Yes all what you say is true. Heartbreaking for people to get back ‘bad news’ from laziness and greed.
I used to offer a lot of upscale offerings but I am just overwhelmed at the moment and the higher end offerings are on pause because it’s 5-10 x more work for 30% more money and the overwhelming popularity of high quality SD 480 mp4 transfers is the main focus at this time.
Just out of curiosity, what is your workflow for capturing native HDV Videos over Firewire? I usually use HDV Split to capture and then run the files through Media Encoder or Handbrake to deinterlace and get the file size down. Encoding does take awhile but I usually just put a ton of files in a queue and then do other things while its going so it's not a huge deal. Great video by the way!
Direct capture through Final Cut.
@@gotmemories makes sense with your Apple workflow.
Gotta love when you start a capture, make sure it completes successfully, take detailed notes as it runs and then... realize you never actually clicked the "Capture" button! LOL Rewinding now....... 😅
Happens once in a while, 2hrs later … dammit!
@@gotmemories No kidding! That's 2 hours we'll never get back! LOL