[Hidden-tech] VHS Transfer options?

Wed Feb 9 17:33:08 UTC 2022

I am among the satisfied customers of Steve Unkles. I've also worked with
Tom Adams, but since he is posting a referral to another company here, I
guess he's not interested in doing your particular job.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 12:14 PM Michael Muller via Hidden-discuss <
hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:

> Funny. Back in the 80's I worked at a place that converted S-8mm film (and
> other film formats) to VHS tape. I saw the care they took most of the time
> and was on the production team when orders started to pile up. Now I'm
> converting my own VHS tapes to digital.
>
> If you have a lot of tape, it might make sense to do it yourself, unless
> you feel the condition of the tape is too delicate to handle yourself (like
> the oxide is falling off the acetate). I had about 50 tapes to transfer, so
> I bought a ClearClick Video2Digital Converter 2.0 and borrowed an S-VHS
> semi-pro deck from my local public access TV station (they don't use them
> anymore -- was just in storage) and recorded the tapes onto thumb drives,
> which I then moved to my internal HD for editing and clipping. The quality
> of the video generated by the ClearClick is pretty good, all things
> considered, and it was easy to see what was going on because the unit has a
> small screen you can look at while it's working. I used the s-video port
> and the RCA L/R audio. Your mileage may vary.
>
>    - https://www.ebay.com/itm/183897443817?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28
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> Mik
>
> Mik Muller, president
> Montague WebWorks
> 20 River Street, Greenfield, MA
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> On 2/8/2022 6:05 PM, Michael Lynch via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>
> I had a negative experience with EverPresent.
>
> They tried to bill me for products I never requested, and they tried to
> charge me a different amount than they quoted me. I had to dig up the email
> proving that they quoted me a different rate before they refunded the
> difference.
>
> They were also storing customer data insecurely, making it possible to
> access all of their customers' captured videos and photos. To their credit,
> they took it seriously when I reported it to them and escalated it to the
> owner, but it took them six months to fix the issue, and they never
> notified their customers.
>
> When I discovered the issue, I also requested that they delete all copies
> of my data, but they left my data online and exposed insecurely for several
> weeks until I asked them again to remove it.
>
> But back to the topic of digitizing VHS tapes, I spent a long time on a
> digitizing project, and I wrote a guide explaining how I did it:
>
> https://mtlynch.io/digitizing-1/
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Lynch
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022, at 11:18 AM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions &
> Folktography via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>
> I've had very good experiences with Boston based(?) Everpresent
> <https://everpresent.com/>
>
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> *Regards,*
>
> *Tom Adams, Director/Owner*
>
>
> *Reelife Documentary Productions <http://www.ReelifeProductions.com> • **Folktography
> by Tom* <http://folktography.zenfolio.com>
> *Cool Media Production...Not Boring or Dumb.*
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> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:13 AM fsaronson--- via Hidden-discuss <
> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>
> I have a friend who has some particular needs in terms of transferring VHS
> to a digital format.  He’s transferred other tapes via commercial
> companies, but there are some sensitive issues with the current tapes that
> might require more specialized attention:
>
>
>
>    - They don’t track properly in a VCR, so need someone with the tech to
>    adjust for that
>    - They are quite dark, so need adjusting for that also, if possible.
>    - One tape may contain politically incorrect material (not blue, per
>    se, but something that more modern sensibilities wouldn’t approve of.  But
>    it’s a family tape, so they want to preserve them).
>
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> He’d like a local and/or small concern who may be able to assist.  Any
> suggestions?
>
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>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Frank Aronson
>
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