[MacDV] Cleaning Noise from Digital Tape

[Mark M. Florida]

Cleaner might be able to help a little, depending on what kind of 
"noise" it is.  If it's white streakies, these are dropouts due to the 
tape actually flaking off, and there's no easy way to fix those -- if 
you have a rotoscoping program you can use a cloning tool to touch them 
up, but what a PAIN!  If it's just the blotchy pixel noise from old VHS 
tape, then Cleaner may be able to help with one of the noise reduction 
filters -- export a 30 second chunk of video from iMovie (at full 
quality) and run it through Cleaner to see if it helps any.  But be 
prepared to wait...  and wait... and wait...  Cleaner is pretty slow on 
full-res video, and on a 233 MHz PowerBook it'll be painfully slow -- 
be prepared to give up your machine for a few days if you decide to 
process any length of footage...

2 cents.

- Mark

On Mar 7, 2004, at 9:01 AM, Steven Romero wrote:

> I transfered a VHS tape made circa 1982 to a digital 8 tape in order 
> to do
> some editing. Since the tape was made so long ago there is some 
> "noise" or
> lines that pop up throughout the video. I have iMovie 2.0 and Cleaner 
> 5.1
> installed on my Powerbook (Wallstreet, 233 Mhz) running OS 9.2. Is 
> there a
> way to clean up this video with the equipment I already have?
>
>
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