Buzz in Eagle

Digital Video Copyright © 1999 by Gary R. Neff.
All rights reserved.

This film was captured from a VHS tape that lacked any audio track. It's typically
been shown over the years, as it was filmed, upside down. The film was
shot at 6 frames per second, but displayed at 29.972 frames
per second for the TV audience. In other words, 5 times too fast.
In addition, a 3:2 pull down was done by the studio which, basically, adds
an extra frame every 4th frame. The end result was an
upside down film being shown 4 times too fast.
 
 

I captured the video at 29.972 fps.

I then rotated the image 180 degrees and restored the colors as much as possible, given the source.

Next, I cropped the video artifacts, removed the 3:2 pull down, and saved the resulting file
as a 320x240, 6 frames per second Quicktime movie, using the Sorenson codec. Shown at
its original frame rate, this movie is 2 1/2 minutes long.

Why Sorenson? This video was over 225 megs before  compression. Sorenson, by far,
gives you the most compression while retaining much of the original quality.