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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #21 on: June 27, 2021, 05:38:08 AM »
Best cheap/free online backup method?
how much data do you have?
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #22 on: June 27, 2021, 07:11:24 AM »
Best cheap/free online backup method?
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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #23 on: June 27, 2021, 08:43:54 AM »
Just a heads up: make sure to have a second (or maybe even third) backup of your videos... A hard-drive doesn't last forever, and especially the portable ones... They die pretty randomly.
Speaking from painful experience, having all our family videos from +20 years lost forever
Tried taking the drives to a recovery specialist?

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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #24 on: June 27, 2021, 10:00:12 AM »
Private YouTube channel

They don’t encode/compress? You probably can’t download the originally-uploaded files.
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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #25 on: June 27, 2021, 10:00:48 AM »
Tried taking the drives to a recovery specialist?

Might be cost-prohibitive, especially if it’s multiple drives.
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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #26 on: June 27, 2021, 10:03:21 AM »
Might be cost-prohibitive, especially if it’s multiple drives.
Dh data recovery does a great job, (if he still does it)

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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #27 on: June 27, 2021, 10:23:05 AM »
Private YouTube channel
Just don't post anything that has to do with Trump/January6/Hunter/vaccines/pelosi/china/russia/etc

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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #28 on: June 27, 2021, 11:28:46 AM »
Just don't post anything that has to do with Trump/January6/Hunter/vaccines/pelosi/china/russia/etc

If that’s what you have in your family videos then you have bigger problems than YouTube closing your account...
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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #29 on: June 27, 2021, 11:30:36 AM »
If that’s what you have in your family videos then you have bigger problems than YouTube closing your account...
"Video of Daddy carrying a box of china up Hunter Mountain on January 6, 1973"

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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2021, 12:37:17 PM »
"Video of Daddy carrying a box of china up Hunter Mountain on January 6, 1973"

I doubt that’s tripping up Google’s YouTube’s algorithms, and if it does they have bigger problems than some heimishe family’s home videos...

Also, camcorders in 1973?
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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #31 on: June 27, 2021, 03:34:44 PM »
(they seem to be associated with the famous Legacy Box, so I am avoiding them too).

What's the issue with "the famous Legacy Box"?

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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #32 on: June 27, 2021, 07:01:43 PM »
What's the issue with "the famous Legacy Box"?
Because I had a terrible, terrible experience with what seems to be their sister company. (Now confirmed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southtree) Poor, inconsistent quality. BESIDES for the first time getting a USB full of SOMEONE ELSE'S videos.
My real Username is Flippy but I dont know how to change it...

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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #33 on: Yesterday at 09:34:25 AM »
Thanks, any experience with them/pricing info?

You ended up doing it with them (or someone else), and how was your experience?

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Re: Converting old video tapes digital video
« Reply #34 on: Yesterday at 06:30:35 PM »
I could do it. In Jackson. quality will be as good as the quality of the video on the vhs now. PM
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