Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] Saving Oils vhs video content on to digital format
From: RM
Date: 14/01/2008, 10:07 am
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au

"in melbourne for a few weeks ... "  then where?   can you take them with you and get help there?
is it sufficient to just copy it from a vhs player to a dvd burner in native video format?  should be a few people around with that rig. I have, but not in melbourne.  how many tapes all up are you talking about?
rob

on 12/01/08 21:02 brucewcameron@yahoo.com said the following:
Hi. Upon recently returning to oz and digging into my storage unit, I also find a plethora of old vids with a scattering of oils 'stuff' on them. This ranges from the standard film clips (which are obviously obsolete with 20k watt) to other more valuable clips such as live performances at the Newcastle earthquake relief benefit, a good chunk of most artists at the 'our common future' benefit, interviews with mega, mullet bearing tool richard wilson to mr garrett on the midday show with bert newton talking about homeless kids. I also have the yothu yindi doco when they toured the USA with the oils and graffiti man.  This is a good doco as it has things like home vids that bones and others are filming. So, where is all this going, you ask ?
It is not cost effective to drop these off to the local geek at blockbuster and ask to copy the whole vid tape to be converted to digital, and I would like it on dig to save it. If it is out there, I would like to get hold of it, but am not aware if it is. So, I am going to put it out to the group that if someone can convert this stuff, then it is all theirs as long as it is then also shared out to anyone else wanting it.  I am in melbourne for a few weeks more only, so I need to work out what to do with this stuff to save it.  Can, and does anyone want to, help get this stuff digitized ?
 
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