Great posts, thank you. It must be a joy to hold so many hours of footage. Even if 90% may seem boring to you, think of the legacy you have created for your descendents. I have a total of 45mins of family tapes, of which around 5mins includes footage of my late father - the only footage of him which will ever exist. It is a yearningly small amount.
I was wondering if the digitisation company provided any kind of report. The sawtooth graph of your audio and video sync issue presents itself as being a hardware rather than software issue, envisioning ammonitic erosion of a plastic spindle. I'm just wondering whether this was fixed with the (despite your heroic attempts to source) right hardware, or if a software algorithm was involved (handcoded, ML?)
Yes, I feel very fortunate that my family recorded so much, and I do look forward to sharing it with my children.
One of the interesting parts of revisiting this footage is just seeing how attitudes towards video changed over time, at least among my circles. When I was a child, home video recording seemed so novel, even to my parents, that there was an excitement and enthusiasm in a lot of the videos just based on the sheer fact that we were recording a home video. Nowadays, I don't think people are as excited to record these kind of "slice of life" videos, even my friends with children.
The digitization company did provide a report, but it wasn't very detailed. They just listed which tapes seemed to have physical degradation or imperfections. I don't know what their methodology was, but I didn't get the impression that it was anything especially advanced. I imagine that they just trained some technicians to use their equipment and then run through a standard process for each tape.
I was wondering if the digitisation company provided any kind of report. The sawtooth graph of your audio and video sync issue presents itself as being a hardware rather than software issue, envisioning ammonitic erosion of a plastic spindle. I'm just wondering whether this was fixed with the (despite your heroic attempts to source) right hardware, or if a software algorithm was involved (handcoded, ML?)