Hi Everyone, This seems like a question straight out of a media librarian's handbook, but I am going to ask it anyways. We are about to house a collection of approx. 200 videos of Peruvian prison dissident government satire plays from our Latin American Studies department. Due to the sensitive nature of this ephemera material use will be restricted to on-site viewing. Given that they are currently mostly in VHS format we are looking at outsourcing conversion to DVD for longer term access, not necessarily of archival quality (I would prefer to digitize for streaming, but it is not in the cards right now). I have been asked to examine some of the DVDs that have already been encoded and compare with the VHS copy for quality to determine if we should have the whole batch redone for consistency or if those already converted are of high enough quality.
Is anyone familiar with a relatively straightforward technical test to make this assessment, in the absence of color bars? Is a more objective test even necessary, or would a perceptual evaluation be sufficient? Best, Scott -- Scott Spicer Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian University of Minnesota Libraries - Twin Cities 341 Walter Library spic0...@umn.edu 612.626.0629 Media Services: lib.umn.edu/media SMART Learning Commons: smart.umn.edu
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