All you'll need are a few Q-tips, rubbing alcohol and a sheet of copy paper. It's basically about cleaning all the parts that come in contact with the tape. There is nothing that I can say here that isn't said better and more in depth elsewhere, so I recommend you look for video tutorials on YouTube to see how to go about cleaning your player. This kind of hardware has moving parts, and some of them come in direct contact with the tape itself, so you have to make sure that the VCR is clean, especially if you're already experiencing playback issues. My video and audio codecs of choice remained the same as last time: FFV1 for lossless compressed video and 48Khz 16-bit PCM stereo for uncompressed audio.Īfter getting the gear comes maintenance, in other words, making sure that your VCR is in its best condition. Among the problems I wanted to fix were the appearance of OSD during the recording process, reducing the resolution from 720x540, which was overkill, to 640x480 and thus also reducing the final file size. My initial goals: to improve on the mistakes I made when I first made a digital copy of the AC3E Mission Zero tape back in 2014. Other resources: internet archive for VCR manuals Software: VirtualDub for capturing and editing
Tape in question: a NTSC-J VHS in color with Hi-Fi stereo sound.įor this job, my only requirements as far as features go were a VCR that had stereo sound and Hi-Fi, common features in later decks.
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