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Rant: someone on here said my thrift store tape rips look too clean and it bugged me for a week
I posted a rip of a 1989 home shopping channel tape I grabbed at a Goodwill in Dayton for 50 cents and one commenter said it looked too clean to be real found footage, like I had cleaned it up in editing. I got defensive at first because I did not touch the video at all, just ran it through a cheap USB capture card I got used for $22. But then I thought about it and realized they had a point about something else, which is that I was cropping out the tracking noise at the top of the tape and the little wobble at the bottom. So now I leave the head switching noise in and I do not trim the first 40 seconds of blue screen or the dead air at the end. Honestly my posts get way more replies now because people can see the tape is real and not some phone video. The weird part is the messy versions feel more like the actual tape, you know? The static and the warble are part of the thing. Anyway, do you all leave the tracking lines in your uploads or do you crop them out?
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robin7774d ago
Have you ever watched a tape on an actual CRT recently? Because I swear the tracking noise only bugs people who grew up on flat screens. I hooked my VCR up to my old Trinitron and the head switching line at the bottom literally sits in the overscan, you cannot even see it. So all these "clean" rips are cropping to the full frame, which no TV in 1989 ever showed. Leaving the noise in is more real in one way but also kind of too real, like showing the edge of the set. I keep the blue screen and dead air though, that part is the truth of what is on the tape.
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