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Any chance you would share your script? Also do you deal with audio sync before or after ripping?

I have a similar project in my backlog, ~100 Hi8 and Digital8 tapes to digitize before they get too old and fragile.

I already have a Digital8 camcorder and the requisite FireWire cable plus TB2 and TB3 adapters for connecting to my Mac or PC. Just need to get off my ass and start!

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100 tapes is quite a mountain to climb. I would consider finding a discount code for a service like southtree (or similar) and sending at least some of them to be processed that way. I did most of mine manually but had to throw in the towel for some tapes and send them in and I found that they often had like 50% off promotions and discounts for higher scales.

If you are down for the challenge / 100 hours of capture, go for it but just wanted to throw that out there because I hate to see media be lost to the sands of time.

I thought I had it in git, but it must be on the Zimaboard I was using that's packed away right now

It wasnt a anything special; Cursor could probably make a better one in one shot.

I recall fighting with ffmpeg for a long time trying to fix audio drift in the transcodes, and I think I settled on handbrake-cli (which I think just does ffmpeg itself) because I was getting decent results.

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