Astérix Speedrunning: general

stinkek

oops

martyste

i'm about to know about mine

martyste

the odd thing about my tapes is that some cartoons will appear twice, but paired with others

martyste

I have: Cleopatra + Twelve Tasks America + Twelve Tasks Big Fight alone Big Fight + random movie Britons + Tintin Lake of Sharks + Caesar's Surprise?

martyste

But one thing I know that is sad, is that the intro and outro of Cleopatra on my tape have been cut short. I'll need some restoration, maybe getting DVD or YT version to send to the VCR to record on a reusable tape...

martyste

Intro misses a couple seconds and outro cuts right after the spring birds chirp

martyste

here, it's all blue!

martyste

well, some close shades of blue

martyste

Here's what you should be able to see when it's not cut.

Download Full_Transition.mp4:

martyste

And, what I assumed to have been CRT beam shake was actually shake in the recording itself ( when the animation begins )

martyste

But damn, it shows this tape has been played *alot*, the quality has went down.

stinkek

This is neat. I wondered if anyone would like to do a generation loss video with an Asterix clip or a few, but that's probably too much to ask, especially when they don't manufacture that stuff anymore

martyste

generation loss?

martyste

Also every tape I'm recording atm, they have each not been seen in a decade, sometimes longer.

stinkek

When you copy footage between 2 tapes (this is is more drastic) or tape and PC, the quality degrades everytime it's copied onto a tape. Typically as you make more copies, the colours get more saturated and bleed more until they start giving up and the picture goes grayscale, there's more and more shaking and artefacts, and audio quality also gets worse, until it becomes and unwatchable static mess.

stinkek

Film piracy up until early 2000's surely was hardcore

martyste

huh

martyste

I mean, I technically have the means to send digital video converted back to SCART to my VCR

martyste

I would just need long enough cables to go from the desktop to VCR

martyste

You know, some of the stuff on my tapes is so unreadable i've been thinking of finding their originals on the internet or smth, and then send them to a tape that's clean enough

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