Amiga Format & Burgess VHS Video Tapes

[Ral-Clan]

We now have 9 Videos to watch...!

1. Clarissa Amiga Format Tutorial.
2. Amiga Format Presents... Getting The Most Out of... Desktop Video Volume 1
3. The Amiga Collection Volume 2 by Burgess Video Group
4. Adorage 2.0 AGA Professional Video Effects - Burgess Video Tutorial
5. The Deluxe Paint IV Video Guide - Saddleback Graphics & EA
6. The Deluxe Paint IV Video Guide (Advanced Techniques) - Saddleback Graphics & EA
7. Imagine 2.0 - The Detail Editor made Simple - Burgess Video Tutorial
8. The Amiga Tutor Video - Settings and Workbench 1.3 - Audition Computer Services
9. Amiga Format Presents... The Guide To Upgrading Your Machine


If anyone has any video's that they could share please get in touch with me via the EAB Thread...

I have a bunch of videos available (and already digitized).

Also, I have been searching a long time for a copy of the ImageFX Catalyzer tutorial videos by Bohus B. (sp?).  I'd pay (a reasonable price, please) for these.

[Ral-Clan]

@ral-clan, I would be really interested in seeing what videos you have!
Any chance that you would consider contributing to our project over on EAB and uploading some for us?

I will look out for the ImageFX videos - I think something like this came up on US Ebay a while back but I overlooked them because I'm not too sure if I can play NTSC tapes on my VCR but if they crop up again I will investigate further...

Look forward to hearing back from you.

I've got a lot of original lightwave tutorials, some DPaint tutorials and the Aladdin4d tutorial tapes.  I tried compressing them down to DIVX files, though.  Just can't get them small enough for me to upload them (most are over 600MB).  My monthly bandwidth is limited.

[Ral-Clan]

Hi, PM sent.

[Ral-Clan]

Upload to YouTube?

I doubt it (although I have nothing to do with this project).  These videos, while now twenty plus years old, are like abandonware - they exist in a grey copyright area.  They are probably still technically still under copyright, but in most cases no-one cares (even the creators in some cases) as the information on them is so old.  I would suspect that some of the creators would even appreciate the archival effort.

Not sure YouTube would be the place for them.

Anyway, by the time you've watched a full hour long video on YouTube, you've streamed about a gigabyte of data, so downloading a gigabyte beforehand isn't much different (six of one, half dozen of the other).  Plus, if you need to rewatch on YouTube, you have to stream it all over, whereas with the download, it's only once and you can watch it over and over again.

[Ral-Clan]

I do agree that making these videos available on YouTube would open them up to a much larger audience.

However, I think there's a reason the EAB files area requires users to make an effort to find/access it.  It's intentional, I'm sure (just browse it and you'll see what I mean).

[Ral-Clan]

Hi Chris - I don't have the video you mention so if you could do a convert and maybe take a quick scan of the cover, that would be great.

Details of how to upload to the EAB server are written in my first post of my EAB thread but if you have any questions please just fire me a quick PM. AVI format (someone has also recommended "Handbreak" software to convert to MP4 format) or MP4 format is fine - either would do and thanks!

I've just been using Handbrake to convert the videos I'm sending you to MP4 and it works the best of all the software I've tried.  Good file size with MP4 format and good de-combing / de-interlacing.

I tried SUPER! but it didn't handle certain de-interlacing and 4:3 screen ratio issued well on certain of the video files.

I also tried Sony Vegas, which of course is excellent.  But its focus on quality makes its rendering engine the slowest of the bunch and you can't set it up to do batch renders of several videos overnight.