Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Hours-long Television Commercial Playlists: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSv6e2rLHRmJQOLrxPjAHi9kR4AiYr7z_ youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSv6e2rLHRmL-yLvRQnM62Z81aB3xmmKq&si=GBRx8wyDrUafiXmU youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSv6e2rLHRmLJNv5G9_TEFB-7fMTXk8nl&si=FJzpCa2dVEOYXwHQ
Originally recorded in 1989 using a Toshiba M-672 VHS VCR at EP/SLP speed onto a TDK Super Avilyn HS T-120 cassette tape. In 2025, it was digitized using a JVC HR-S7500U VCR's s-video output processed through a RetroTink 5X Pro, and captured using a Magewell Gen 2 USB HDMI device (480i pass-through) via AmaRecTV under Windows 11.
Retrotink Settings: youtube.com/watch?v=9N9mRJKk9ps (thanks @RetroRGB !)
Capture Software: AmaRecTV
Capture codec: Lagarith
Capture settings: w=720, h=480, fps=60, fcc=YUY2, bit=16
VapourSynth output (QTGMC-processed video for deinterlacing/denoising) piped into ffmpeg for NVENC-based H.264 encoding:
vspipe qtgmc_input.vpy - | ffmpeg -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv422p -s 720x480 -r 60 -i - -i input.avi -map 0:v -map 1:a -vf "format=yuv420p,setsar=8/9" -c:v h264_nvenc -preset p7 -rc vbr -cq 18 -b:v 0 -spatial-aq 1 -temporal-aq 1 -aq-strength 8 -c:a aac -b:a 192k -ar 48000 -af aresample=async=100:first_pts=0 -movflags +faststart output.mp4
YouTube Editing Software: Sony Vegas Pro 22 Steam Edition used to upscale, cut, crop and adjust brightness/contrast and color correction in some cases. Also used for audio filtering/enhancements.
Hours-long Television Commercial Playlists: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSv6e2rLHRmJQOLrxPjAHi9kR4AiYr7z_ youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSv6e2rLHRmL-yLvRQnM62Z81aB3xmmKq&si=GBRx8wyDrUafiXmU youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSv6e2rLHRmLJNv5G9_TEFB-7fMTXk8nl&si=FJzpCa2dVEOYXwHQ
Originally recorded in 1989 using a Toshiba M-672 VHS VCR at EP/SLP speed onto a TDK Super Avilyn HS T-120 cassette tape. In 2025, it was digitized using a JVC HR-S7500U VCR's s-video output processed through a RetroTink 5X Pro, and captured using a Magewell Gen 2 USB HDMI device (480i pass-through) via AmaRecTV under Windows 11.
Retrotink Settings: youtube.com/watch?v=9N9mRJKk9ps (thanks @RetroRGB !)
Capture Software: AmaRecTV
Capture codec: Lagarith
Capture settings: w=720, h=480, fps=60, fcc=YUY2, bit=16
VapourSynth output (QTGMC-processed video for deinterlacing/denoising) piped into ffmpeg for NVENC-based H.264 encoding:
vspipe qtgmc_input.vpy - | ffmpeg -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv422p -s 720x480 -r 60 -i - -i input.avi -map 0:v -map 1:a -vf "format=yuv420p,setsar=8/9" -c:v h264_nvenc -preset p7 -rc vbr -cq 18 -b:v 0 -spatial-aq 1 -temporal-aq 1 -aq-strength 8 -c:a aac -b:a 192k -ar 48000 -af aresample=async=100:first_pts=0 -movflags +faststart output.mp4
YouTube Editing Software: Sony Vegas Pro 22 Steam Edition used to upscale, cut, crop and adjust brightness/contrast and color correction in some cases. Also used for audio filtering/enhancements.
