randomVHStat

Random tat from my old VHS tapes.

VHS capture method :

LG VCR for playback
VHS signal passed through old Panasonic ES10 DVD recorder which stabilises some time-base errors and fixes some colour problems
S-Video cable from ES10 fed into cheap PC capture card
Capture in Virtualdub, uncompressed (HUFFYUV) to avoid compression artifacts
Open captured video in Virtualdub, edit out unwanted bits, apply Neat Video 2 or 3 to reduce noise and time-base jitter, save as new .avi

Load saved video into avisynth script with the following filters :
- crop
- CNR2 (temporal colour noise reduction for maximum colour stability)
- QTGMC (high quality 50fps deinterlace)
- MergeChroma(aWarpSharp2(depth=30)) (sharpens colour, useful for smeary VHS colour))
- santiag(strh=-3, strv=3) (further suppresses time-base jitter)
- Unsharp (to sharpen a bit)
- spline64resize(1344,1080) (helps YT to retain what little detail there is)

Import AVS script into Virtualdub, save, upload.