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Hi everyone,

I transfer and remaster VHS to 1080p. Working from a tape is much better than using an existing DVD transfer.

Being a huge fan of the pro-shot Largo 1978 (15-08-1978), I am looking for a very good VHS source of Largo 1978.

It is a non-profit activity. No problem to make a free upload of the result for everyone.

Sending the tape back to the owner is not a problem. Possible to buy the tapes as well.

I am based in the United Kingdom. PAL and NTSC vhs are good for me.

Happy 2021 to everybody.

Pvtjoy

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sorry, never had 78 on VHS only the 80 show.  in the early 2000s the low gen 78 appeared online and there was a DVD available which I may have archived somewhere. as for  source VHS your best of looking for an NTSC copy, however, I suspect the best one is already the watchdog release that came out of  japan

Please keep us in the loop on this project.  It'll be nice to see the results.  Let me ask you this, are you using the new AI Video Enhancement Software technology?

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Oats

@Oats I have Topaz Video Enhance AI (VEAI) and a computer for it. However, I keep trying to explore/find better ways to obtain the best results. It came to my attention that 'more traditional methods' could provide better results than Topaz VEAI. Having said that, Topaz VEAI can be really good at denoising videos (sometimes, it does a better job than Neat video).
Edit : corrected typos

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Files will be ready for tomorrow Saturday. People who are interested in getting it and reuploading for others, please contact me in private.

Files :

- capture in 480p (audio in 384 kbps)
- WAV file (lossless) of the audio from the tape
- H265 video (mp4)
- Bluray disc

The full show fits on one bluray disc.
I tried to make it a 2-disc bluray but the authoring program refuses to put a higher bitrate after analyzing the footage. Apparently disagreeing that the picture requires a higher bitrate than it outputs.
For 90 minutes it rendered a Bluray of 11.7 GB, so I moved to putting the whole show on one disc. (One Bluray disc is 25 GB.)

i got 8-15-78   

dvdx2  1978-08-15 Bruce Springsteen - Landover -Miles Hai DVD

dvdx2 1978-08-15 Bruce Springsteen - Live On The Darkness Of The Edge of Town Tour DVD Watchdog                            

dvdx3 1978-08-15 Bruce Springsteen - Landover 78 Capitol Centre Landover, MD DVD HOJO

but you want

1980-11-24 Largo MD (XP 4 DVD Version)

I got that too let me find it

people would jump onstage and grab me by the head and scream, ‘tilly! bootlegs!'"

Startdir is F:\Video\Bruce Springsteen\new projects


1975 DVD wings for wheels
1975-02-06 Bruce Springsteen - High On A Mountain Of Love Widener College DVD JEMS
1975-1981 Bruce Springsteen - 8mm films DVD
1975-1981 Bruce Springsteen - 8mm Rare films DVD
1977-12-31 Capital New Years
1977-12-31 Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes with Bruce Springsteen - Capitol Theatre rip
1977-12-31 Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes with Bruce Springsteen - Capitol Theatre rip2
1978 Bruce Springsteen - Darkness Tour ’78 3DVD-Otacon
1978 Bruce Springsteen - Classic 78 DVD (Apocalypse Sound)LOssless
1978 Bruce Springsteen - PM Magazine 1978
1978 Bruce Springsteen - PM Magazine 19782
1978 Bruce Springsteen - PM Magazine1 1978
1978-07-06 Bruce Springsteen - Interview Channel-7 News Los Angeles, CA
1978-07-08 Bruce Springsteen - Phoenix, AZ
1978-07-08 Bruce Springsteen - Phoenix, AZ2
1978-08-15 Bruce Springsteen - Landover 78 Capitol Centre Landover, MD DVD HOJO
1978-08-15 Bruce Springsteen - Landover -Miles Hai DVD
1978-08-15 Bruce Springsteen - Live On The Darkness Of The Edge of Town Tour DVD Watchdog
1978-08-21 Bruce Springsteen - WABC-TV Interview New York, NY
1978-08-21 Bruce Springsteen - WABC-TV Interview New York, NY2
1978-08-22 8mm film-Madison Square Garden
1978-08-31 Darkness+Agora
1978-08-31 Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes - Live at The Agora Video TV show
1978-09-19 &20 Passaic Nights
1978-09-19 Bruce Springsteen - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ-restored by Miles Hai DVD
1978-09-19 Bruce Springsteen - Passaic 30th Anniversary Rendition DVD iso
1978-09-19 Bruce Springsteen - Passaic 30th Anniversary+audio
1978-09-19 Bruce Springsteen - Passaic Masked and Redubbed DVD Turnpike
1978-09-19 Bruce Springsteen - Piece de Resistance September 19 1978 DVD-Apocalypse
1978-09-19 Bruce Springsteen on Channel 4 news NY
1978-09-19 Bruce Springsteen on Channel 4 news, NY
1978-09-19 Bruce Springsteen on Channel 4 news, NY2
1978-09-19 Capitol Soundcheck
1978-09-19 Mileshai
1978-09-19 Mileshai2
1978-09-19 Tailschao
1978-09-20 Bruce Springsteen - Capitol Theatre clips
1978-09-20 Bruce Springsteen - Capitol Theatre clips2
1978-09-20 Bruce Springsteen - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ-restored by Miles Hai-Tailschao DVD
1978-09-20 Bruce Springsteen - Live In Passaic -JEMS Brucevideos 2DVD
1978-09-20 Bruce Springsteen - Passaic [Complete Show, with Nugs Audio] {LarryRulz} - MPG
1979-09-00 The Muse Concert No Nukes 2 DVD
1979-09-00 The Muse Concert-No Nukes 2 DVD
1979-09-21-23 No Nukes Concert Video Clips
1980-09 The River 80 Rehearsals
1980-09 The River 80 Rehearsals2
1980-09-00 The River Tour Rehearsals DVD
1980-11-05 Bruce Springsteen - The River Tour, Tempe 1980
1980-11-05 Bruce Springsteen - The River Tour, Tempe 19802
1980-11-24 - Largo, MD (VCD DVDrip)
1984-12-22 Bruce Springsteen - Old Grey Whistle Test Special Bonus DVD edit
1984-12-22 Bruce Springsteen - Old Grey Whistle Test Special Bonus DVD-coming
1985 USA for Africa - We are the World
1985-01-27 Bruce Springsteen - Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY DVD
1985-01-28 USA for Africa - We are the World2
1985-06-21 Bruce Springsteen - San Siro Night 1985 (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition) DVD
1985-08-07 Bruce Springsteen - Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, OH 2 DVD
1988 Bruce Springsteen - MTV special Bruce Springsteen Inside the Tunnel of Love DDC-720p.h264-iND
1988-05-03 - Mountain View (JEMS-Brucevideos)
1988-05-03 Bruce Springsteen - Mountain View (JEMS-Brucevideos)
1992 -11-11 Bruce Springsteen - Plugged-Soul Driver(Non-Broadcast Outtake)-XVID
1993-06-25 Bruce Springsteen - Project X Letterman
1995 Homestead
1999-03-15 Bruce Springsteen-Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2002 Bruce Springsteen - Live in Barcelona
2006 Bruce Springsteen ?– We Shall Overcome i hr special
2009 The.25th.Anniversay.Rock.and.Roll.Hall.of.Fame.Concert.2009.1080i.HDTV.DD5.1.MPEG2.REPACKED-CtrlHD)
2009-10-29 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert 2009 1080i.HDTV.DD5.1.MPEG2.REPACKED-CtrlHD)
2014-04-10 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony
4tillywilly Bruce CHICKEN SCRATCH-LAWSUIT private setlist
Bruce Springsteen - The Complete TV Appearances - Volume 1 DVD
Bruce Springsteen - 30 Years Burning Down The Road (Otacon)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN CLASSIC 78 DVD
Burce Springsteen - StoryTellers VH1
Darkness Of The Edge of Town Tour
DVD5 - Thrill Hill Vault VOB
Live On The Darkness Of The Edge of Town Tour Aug 31 Agora Blu-Ray
MTV.Bruce.Springsteen.Inside.the.Tunnel.of.Love.1988.DDC-720p.h264-iND
Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes-ripped DVD
SSJ
The Promise The Making Of Darkness

1980-09-00 Bruce Springsteen - The River Tour Rehearsals DVD
1980-11-24 Bruce Springsteen - Capital Center, Landover, MD
1980-11-24 Bruce Springsteen Largo MD 4DVD
1984-12-22 Bruce Springsteen - Old Grey Whistle Test Special Bonus DVD
1985-01-27 Bruce Springsteen - Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY 2DVD
1985-06-21 Bruce Springsteen - San Siro Night 1985 (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition) 2DVD
1985-06-29 Bruce Springsteen - Breathless In Paris - Uber Series Vol 2 [3DVD]
1985-08-07 Bruce Springsteen - Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, OH 2DVD
1987 Bruce Springsteen - BBC Presents Glory Days DVD
1988-04-17 Bruce Springsteen - St. Louis Arena, St. Louis, MO XP 3DVD
1988-04-23 Bruce Springsteen - Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA songmenu 2DVD
1988-05-03 Bruce Springsteen - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA 2DVD
1988-05-22 Bruce Springsteen - Madison Square Garden, New York 2DVD
1988-07-09 Bruce Springsteen - Sheffield, England XP 3DVD
1988-07-25 & 14 Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love Express Tour DVD-broken
1988-07-25 & 14 Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love Express Tour DVD-fixed
Bruce Springsteen - 30 Years Burning Down The Road 3DVD (Otacon)

people would jump onstage and grab me by the head and scream, ‘tilly! bootlegs!'"

@Pvtjoy posted:

@Oats I have Topaz Video Enhance AI (VEAI) and a computer for it. However, I keep trying to explore/find better ways to obtain the best results. It came to my attention that 'more traditional methods' could provide better results than Topaz VEAI. Having said that, Topaz VEAI can be really good at denoising videos (sometimes, it does a better job than Neat video).
Edit : corrected typos

I use that too

It killed a B&W film though

Watch out for denoising videos, it takes a bunch of good stuff with it!

the faces looked like they were wearing clay masks

But need to experiment more

people would jump onstage and grab me by the head and scream, ‘tilly! bootlegs!'"

1. To make a VHS transfers. You need a proper TBC deck. Videohelp site has a good listing of models. Usually better SVHS decks has the support, but they aren't cheap. There are DVD/VHS combos that has a built in TBC, but it encodes to DVD first. Like Tillywilly said, you want to make sure there aren't extra encoding steps. Althought VHS to DVD using TBC is still better than no TBC to lossless video.

2. Next step is to learn deinterlancing (QTGMC is still the number one).

3. And yes. VEAI is currently the best bet with upscaling. Only problem is to find the proper upscaling model to use. Sometimes it's a best way to make 100% denoise first, then 400% to 4K. I wouldn't use 1080p/Blu-ray anymore. 4K is the only way to go. Also Youtube preserves the details better with 4k.

All those are same quality as the DVDs. All those three sources has a poor deinterlacing.

If you go from interlaced source (59.94) and change it to 30p, it will lower the resolution and motion is not as smooth. Also the wrong framerate will make it jumpy. There are no shortcuts.

That's why the QTGMC is still hands down the best. It will double the framerate. Video Enhance AI (VEAI) also has the double framerate option with the latest beta, but it doesn't handle the motion very well.

VEAI is an asset. I doesn't replace the other software. It just adds an extra step (or two). Problem with VEAI is that you need to clean the source best as possible, before upscaling.  Using QTGMC cleans the source a lot, only problem is that the processing time goes x2, because the doubled framerate. After deinterlace you can also try to clean the source with Neat Video, or using VEAI with 100% denoise. Once you have the clean source as possible, you can upscale it to 1080p or 4k.

Sometimes the VEAI offers quality that is out of this world. I just stare the results in disbelief. Yet, it's hard to recommend the software to regular Joe, because you need to dive deeper to video editing world to get most out of it.

Led Zeppelin 4k:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvw9R6v56Vc

Original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...puX8Wp7PU&t=436s

I have worked for few months just the Prove It All Night from Largo 1978.

It's still far from finished. Here's work in progress:

https://imgur.com/xALCOOd

left is the 1080p remaster, on the right is my 4k version with QTGMC -> VEIA 100% denoise -> VEIA 4k upscale. Still missing color correcting, sharpening etc..

source: Live On The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Tour (Watchdog label) DVD

Not entirely happy with the results, but it's getting there.

Take whatever time is needed. We've been waiting a long time for a great version and a few more days won't matter. When you are satisfied, the Bruce community will be, too. As you said, the audio is already great. Thanks for doing this.


 

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