Left audio channel is from the DVD recorder and the right channel is from the cxadc-clockgen. Audio on the VHS-Decode result was captured by the cxadc-clockgen and then run through vhs-auto-audio-align because I had my second CX card set to the wrong input and didn't feel like re-recording. I can't get hifi-decode to cooperate anyway.

Everything looks like crap because every setting was left at the default, even on the recording VCR. There seems to be some weird auto gain control happening on both the original recording and the DVD recorder. It was properly bright when I was monitoring the recording but is now inexplicably too dim and too bright. I'm impressed that the video perfectly synced up between the two with no drift. It's frame perfect all the way through. The audio is a different story though. It's ever so slightly off.

DVD recorder output was copied off the disc with MakeMKV. RF capture was decoded into FFV1 by tbc-video-export, then re-encoded to Apple ProRes 422 with ffmpeg. Video was edited with Adobe Premiere CC 2024. Final export was done as ProRes 422 then uploaded directly to Youtube.

Also, the tape I used is a below average normal T-120 VHS tape. It's possibly 30 years old and is quite worn out. I mention that specifically because this was recorded as S-VHS. Funny enough, the playback VCR I used for the RF capture doesn't support S-VHS at all but the heads are still good enough to cope with the higher bandwidth signal.

Chapters:
0:00 Fountain
1:17 Hand in Fountain
1:48 Fountain Closeup
2:20 Buildings
3:09 Houses
3:20 Running
3:44 Moonwalking
4:07 Train
4:48 Flowers
5:29 Moon
5:47 Bouncing
6:03 Balls
6:57 Shakespeare
8:02 Pop pop pop pop
8:17 Sky
8:34 Office
8:40 Test Patterns

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