I've cleaned the tape heads, I no longer have a working copy of Neat, so does anyone have any experience with garbage tapes? Any help appreciated; it's not a client piece, so I've got time to play with it. I assume there's no "Easy Button" for this.
@Musicvid ... BCC Dust and Scratches rather miraculously got rid of the horizontal white streaks (head noise?) - and only a slight adjustment from the default preset was needed. Here is a screenshot using the FX split screen view with the L side being 'with' FX:
A touch of BCC Flicker Fixer (default preset) and BCC Dropout Fixer was also added though I'm not sure that the latter did anything obvious. A touch of BCC+Deband was also used, but increasing the strength softens the image.
There's still video glitching across the width of the image - mainly mid-screen vertically - but using the above FX vastly improved the video.
I couldn't find a native Vegas Pro FX that got rid of the white streaking.
Speaking of miracles, will they never cease?
For reasons known only to the Muses and @Vegas_Sebastian, just rendering the captured interlaced analog using Vegas Smart Adaptive Deinterlacer masked the problem, at least enough to make these old community shows worth watching again. To wit:
@Musicvid ... The BCC FX used are all in the Image Restoration Unit -
At $299 USD its not inexpensive, but if the last 2 years are anything to go by, there could be 25% with the nearly upon us Black Friday offers.
I've not used a BorisFX trial version so I'm not sure, but suspect that it will be fully functional.
Nonetheless, it looks like the Vegas Smart Adaptive Deinterlacer does the job quite well (it looks good but does have some horizontal glitching still appearing than occurs with the BCC approach) so the BCC FX may not be necessary after all. Either which way, the improvement is stunning.
Either which way, the improvement is stunning.
Yes, I agree, and the results I'm getting inside Vegas are good enough for my "budget" trip down memory lane. Just redoing my old highlight reel for fun, all interlaced SD.
@Musicvid This is neat filter, default noise and scratch setting. Main singer becomes translucent
Thank you for the helpful test. Neat used to be cheaper.
Meanwhile, I found a capture of the same show on a storage drive, problem solved.