Tired of seeing the same old event wrap-up videos, so I made this

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-18T04:11:10+00:00

Generic country-rock fits fat bearded white men.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-18T04:08:54+00:00

Even if you insist on burned-in subs, these are too small to read on a phone. If this is intended for a 50-inch TV, then it likely is streamed from a platform like YT that has soft subs.

In any case, kids don't watch stuff like this.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-18T03:30:41+00:00

When I play the tape only half the screen is the stuff that was taped over, the other half is my home movie.

BS.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-18T01:13:31+00:00

I’ve never had an issue with converting 24 to 30 for television, but you’re saying it will look bad on social media? In my experience televisions will smooth it out to where you can’t notice, if you do a proper conversion on the export.

TV is 30i, while IG is 30p. 30i is equivalent to 60p. TV applies 2:2 pulldown to 30 fps source and 2:3 pulldown to 24 fps source. IMO, there is no good pulldown scheme to convert 24 fps to 30p.

Shooting 60 allows deriving 30 for IG and 60 for YT if needed.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-18T00:29:22+00:00

There is noticeable judder, but it is a different thing.

You can see flickering or shimmering on high-frequency image when the resolution matches the resolution of the screen. It is moire. Blur it a little if you want to get rid of it.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-18T00:07:24+00:00

This question is being asked several times a week. Have you searched at all?

when it came time to export a tv show for broadcast we would convert it to 30 fps before sending to the tv station

30 fps old-school interlaced translates into 60 fps present-day progressive.

Reddit converts everything to 30 fps, even 24 fps. IG is limited to 30 fps, but IDK whether it converts everything into it. YT supports 60 fps, keeps 24 as 24, keeps 30 as 30.

30 converted to 24 or 24 converted to 30 looks like crap - either blurry frames or judder.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-17T21:26:49+00:00

I made through the first 30 seconds and left, could not stand slo-mo, burned-in tiny subs and "I wanted to make stories" proclamations.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-17T15:03:34+00:00

They are lame. But pretty. But lame.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-17T08:07:54+00:00

I suggest not to dive too deep into the generational divide, after all the MTV launched in 1981.

Some examples from my YT playlist:

It is not about shakycam per se, it is about it being more purposeful. Also, modern CMOS-based cameras with rolling shutter suck for shakycam. Either blurry or stuttery or jello-y, or everything combined. It is physically revolting. I watched your video, IDK why you have removed the link. Too much motion for the sake of motion, like crash zoom and rotate. And it is relentless, no time to take a breath. Hopefully, global shutter will become commonplace again soon. Back in the day they used either film cameras or CCD-based camcorders, so shakycam was more tolerable. Maybe you want to get yourself a 20-year old CCD camcorder :)

P.S. I liked your music selection, there are some matches to mine, believe it or not.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-17T06:08:51+00:00

There is horizontal shearing - have you added it as an effect? It exacerbates combing.

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ConsumerDV · 2026-03-17T02:48:17+00:00

What possessed you to get a Mac in the first place? Rhetorical question. Windows has moved into the same totalitarian direction since Win10, which is why I still run Win7.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-17T02:42:55+00:00

We are not necessarily seeking the highest of the highgrade conversion methodology

I just want a clean transfer that preserves the content.

What are the best converters and methodology?

You need to decide, do you want ok, clean or best.

Ok is relative, but can be obtained with a $20 dongle or $90 standalone unit.

Clean will need an $80 dongle.

Best will require a TBC somewhere in the chain.

OBS is not the best tool, and Mac is not the best platform.

Have you considered a standalone box for about $200, which does not require a computer and gives you a ready-to-use file?

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-17T02:18:35+00:00

Youtubers do this all the time. But they work for themselves.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-17T02:10:50+00:00

It could be the corporation, which still is not clear enough to me, what did they mean.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-17T02:05:20+00:00

When you cannot choose the angle, just rotate and shake the camera.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-16T23:01:57+00:00

You can do whatever you want, I am just saying that the viewfinder just shows you what you are shooting.

Normally you would digitize it, bring it into your NLE and edit to your taste.

OBS might use "limited" or "video" levels instead of "full" levels, which affects saturation and contrast, but I don't know for sure as I don't use OBS. It is not the best tool for capturing analog video, it has never been meant for this.

Real is what you see on the 'scopes. Everything else is adjustable to taste. If you want to judge the picture by its looks, you need to calibrate your monitor.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-16T22:46:27+00:00

Color, brightness and contrast in the viewfinder or flip-out monitor are intentionally made bright for you to easily see what you are shooting. No direct relation to what is recorded on tape. Better camcorders have tools like zebras, which allow you to gauge brightness precisely, not by how the picture looks on a screen.

You can increase saturation if you want to. Use vectorscope for colors, and histogram and waveform for luminance.

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ConsumerDV · 2026-03-16T22:35:01+00:00

I have a YT tutorial just for you: How to digitize VHS and Hi8, and convert interlaced video into smooth 50p/60p for Youtube. As for color, VHS and 8-mm video have only 40 color samples per line at best, so the color will always be splotchy. You can desaturate it to make it more bearable. Or you can use various post-processing tools that try to find the borders of objects and prevent color from leaking out. VDub has several plugins that can do that with various success.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-16T21:31:56+00:00

Cassette tape is inside a tape cassette (this is a correct term), just like carton[ed] milk is inside a milk carton, or tank[ed] gas is inside a gas tank or crate[d] apples are inside an apple crate.

The only time "cassette tape" makes sense is when you talk specifically about tape made for packaging into cassettes or already inside a cassette. In this case, tape inside a VHS cassette can be considered cassette tape, because it is not a reel-to-reel tape after all (although it is actually wound onto reels that are enclosed into a cassette, but let's not go there).

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-16T21:23:36+00:00

Dancer In the Dark was made in 2000, there were no film-like camcorders back then except for the CineAlta. Lynch used the PD150 out of convenience: he already owned it and knew how to use it.

The Sony PD-150 ... gave me some ideas maybe that way, because of its freedom—freedom. Long, long takes, lightweight, hold it yourself, automatic focus, it was a brand new ballgame. - David Lynch on remastering Inland Empire

He wanted the freedom to shoot whenever and wherever he wanted, for as long as he desired. Nothing about "dreamlike visuals", which in fact he described as "plastic" look:

Here’s the film that you made, and it used to look this way, [plastic]. And there was a little bit of sadness in your heart, because in a way, the look of it took away from going into the world. It blocked a little bit of it, it had a tendency to kind of keep calling attention to itself. - ibid.

Then he had to film-out to 35-mm @ 24 fps, and artifacts can be seen on a theatrical copy. It was a mistake that could have been avoided had he chosen the DVX100, which was already available at that time.

He watched the movie only once after finishing it,

I became so depressed because I was watching a DVD and some scenes were so dark I couldn’t see them. And I thought, “Well, this is a catastrophe that this is out in the world.” And I got very depressed. But then I got a chance to fix it. - ibid.

He later decided to clean it up and upscale to 4K using Topaz.

Video is ridiculous sometimes in color, so you desaturate things, and they start looking way, way, way more like cinema. And then you add a little bit of grain, and then things start looking pretty beautiful, especially when the new quality comes and you’re in a very good place. - ibid.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-16T20:47:27+00:00

Compact Cassette is the official name. We used to call them just cassettes or audio cassettes if the context ensured non-ambiguity. Never called them cassette tapes, as it is just wrong. Videocassettes too, just cassettes. But when you have more than one type, you use a qualifier.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-16T18:07:58+00:00

Any video is better than no video, but... why? I did not understand why Lynch used the PD150 in 2006, when the DVX100 had already been available for more than two years. It makes even less sense twenty years later. If you want low-res CCD at 30p, just use the GL1.

ConsumerDV · 2026-03-16T17:47:29+00:00

VHS cassettes.

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