Posted by Absent Minded Farmer on December 31, 2020 at 23:14:12 from (24.183.137.38):
Thought I would drop in for a minute, wish everybody a happy New Year & let everyone know that I've been chugging along copying the IH filmstrips & records to YouTube. It's a slow process. Just when I think two of them should be done in no time flat, four hours or more have passed. My method of copying the images requires near darkness for my small table top screen, so I'm relegated to working after sundown. My darkroom just isn't big enough for this setup. I've tried several different scanner programs & they don't like the movie frame format. The scanner does fine, until I look at what was scanned & find that it missed half of the images & some of them that did work have an odd crop to them. There is a good scanner out there on the market, but I'm looking at spending several thousand on it & THEN buying the editing software. So, that will be something I purchase off in the future. Another problem I'm facing with these strips is vinegar syndrome. It's a slow degradation of the acetate film base. It causes the image to lose sharpness, the film warps, sprocket holes can tear.... & then there's that tell tale vinegar smell. Then everything is in red scale. A hallmark of early Ektachrome film. With this being a late 50's, early 60's 53xx internegative film, I'm not surprised it's as bad as it is. There's only one film that doesn't have any issue & it's the one I've had in my collection for ages. No VS & you can faintly make out the green in the hay & blue in the sky.
The audio is done with Audacity. I have years of experience with that program, so it's easy for me to use. Which is good. With the exception of two records so far, all the other ones skip in numerous spots. Fortunately, I have a few small tricks up my sleeve to remedy that problem. Only had to haul out the big guns once & rehab a record with Elmer's wood glue. Worked slicker than snot like it always does. Then it's cut 'n' paste time with Audacity. So far, so good there.
Anyway, I'll leave a link to the playlist below for those of you that don't have a YouTube account or did not save it. All my videos are ad free, as they should be. I'll post back when I reach the halfway mark. I'm going to put together a short intermission type video, featuring some of the equipment I'm using & whatever else I think to throw in.
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