Not really a tutorial request, just kind of a "parallel question"....
Say you're going through say an old VHS copy of something you're trying to save. It's one of those specials hosted by some actor to promote some film but the show is also a retrospective on films that follow the same narrative pattern, so there's clips all the way through of all the other films.
Now, is it better to hunt down copies of all the old films and re-create the clips or just work with the material as is so that the video quality, even if it isn't great, remains consistent? IOW, would it be distracting to have the video quality keep jumping from VHS to DVD and back and forth? Likewise, if you are replacing the clips, should the replaced versions be widescreen/letterboxed even if the originals weren't or should they also be re-cropped to pan-n-scan to maintain consistency with the source material?
I guess what I'm trying to figure out is at what point does it cross the line from "preservation" to "restoration"?
Say you're going through say an old VHS copy of something you're trying to save. It's one of those specials hosted by some actor to promote some film but the show is also a retrospective on films that follow the same narrative pattern, so there's clips all the way through of all the other films.
Now, is it better to hunt down copies of all the old films and re-create the clips or just work with the material as is so that the video quality, even if it isn't great, remains consistent? IOW, would it be distracting to have the video quality keep jumping from VHS to DVD and back and forth? Likewise, if you are replacing the clips, should the replaced versions be widescreen/letterboxed even if the originals weren't or should they also be re-cropped to pan-n-scan to maintain consistency with the source material?
I guess what I'm trying to figure out is at what point does it cross the line from "preservation" to "restoration"?