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Rewind A VHS Tape Manually But Fast

Overview  Sometimes it is necessary to rewind a VHS tape manually.

Options Tried

We tried rewinding in a VCR and it got stuck in two different machines!!!

We tried rewinding the tape in the VHS cleaner and it did not move.

Solution

We rewound the tapes manually using:

electric drill (one end of socket bit into chuck), socket bit (big socket set - one of the bits - left or right most - in those little bit trays), plug bit into smallest sized long extension, extension "plugged" into 8mm brass adaptor, and brass adaptor fits into VHS reel hub.  Make sure to push in release (screw driller into hole in back of cassette - middle near top).

TRY BY HAND FIRST with the extension and etc before trying the drill as you have more control if something goes wrong.  Once it works by hand then use the drill.

Note

This should work on other tapes, but the extension and brass piece may need to be changed so as to fit the tape reel hub.

PLEASE ADD further procedures for other types of tapes.

Retro Film Output Formats

Currently here is the list of output options from the Retro units:

  • Sequenced jpg's
    • 1920x1080, 0.5MB
  • MP4
    • Sony AVC/MVC 1920x180-30p 16Mbps
    • Use this setting to create the highest quality 16:9 file suitable for uploading to Internet sites. Audio: 128 Kbps, 48,000 Hz, 32 Bit, Stereo, AAC Video: 29.970 fps, 1920x1080 Progressive, YUV, 16 Mbps Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000
  • AVI
    • NTSC DV Widescreen progressive 30Mbps
    • Widescreen NTSC DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture. Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Video: 29.970 fps, 720x480 Progressive, NTSC DV Wide Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.212
  • MXF
    • HD422 1920x1080-24p 50 Mbps
    • Audio: 48,000 Hz, 24 Bit, Stereo, PCM Video: 23.976 fps, 1920x1080 Progressive, MPEG HD422 Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000

 

Uploading a video or file to LHF website

Overview: Need to upload a file(s) to our website (LHF) so that a customer can download it or view it.

Creating The Film File:

Render the file as small as one can for the customer to view it.  The last time I created an mp4 file using "Mainconcept AVC/AAC - Export for G1".  A file CineCap processed 1.04GB 16mm HD 2.09 minute B&W file rendered to 8.72MB.  Another CineCap processed 14.4GB Reg8 HD 33:18 minute colour file rendered to 135MB.

Two Options For Upload:

If the file is less than 1000MB (almost 1GB), then you can use the Cpanel - file manger - upload process.  Just logon using lifeti15 and follow the steps.

The other option is to use Smartftp.

Using SmartFTP:

Use SmartFTP to access our website:

address: lifetimeheritagefilms.com/

login: lifeti15

password: pwd

port: 21

Uploading (info for both methods):

Go to the following path and place your file….the last two folders are obviously the year and month that you are in….

domains/lifetimeheritagefilms.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/YEAR/MONTH/

When sending someone a link for a file to download, here is an example…….

http://www.lifetimeheritagefilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/some_download_file.zip

The person that you send the link to will only be able to download the one file because they cannot look at any of the directory.

Name of the file should not have spaces….this may or may not cause a problem.

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