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    <p><font face="Calibri">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.<br>
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    <p><font face="Calibri">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.</font></p>
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    <p><font face="Calibri">Mik</font><br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Mik Muller, president
Montague WebWorks
20 River Street, Greenfield, MA
413-320-5336
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/8/2022 6:05 PM, Michael Lynch via
      Hidden-discuss wrote:<br>
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      <div>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.<br>
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      <div>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.<br>
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      <div>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.<br>
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      <div>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:<br>
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      <div><a href="https://mtlynch.io/digitizing-1/"
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      <div>Thanks,<br>
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      <div>Michael Lynch</div>
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      <div>On Fri, Feb 4, 2022, at 11:18 AM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife
        Productions & Folktography via Hidden-discuss wrote:<br>
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                                                          moz-do-not-send="true">Reelife
                                                          Documentary
                                                          Productions</a> • </b></span><a
href="http://folktography.zenfolio.com" target="_blank"
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                                                          by Tom</b></a><br>
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            11:13 AM fsaronson--- via Hidden-discuss <<a
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                <p class="qt-MsoNormal">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:<br>
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                    style="margin-left:0in;">They don’t track properly
                    in a VCR, so need someone with the tech to adjust
                    for that<br>
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                    style="margin-left:0in;">They are quite dark, so
                    need adjusting for that also, if possible.<br>
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                  <li
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                    style="margin-left:0in;">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).<br>
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                <p class="qt-MsoNormal">He’d like a local and/or small
                  concern who may be able to assist.  Any suggestions?<br>
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                <p class="qt-MsoNormal">Thanks in advance!<br>
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                <p class="qt-MsoNormal">Frank Aronson<br>
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