OK, my “on this day in history” post is taking forever to process, so let’s do this one first today.
I met up with Rodney Parker a few months back and he let me borrow his collection of VHS and 8mm master tapes. He filmed this one back in 1991 when the band played his graduation party and he posted the raw footage to his great bay area punk shows youtube channel about 12 years ago. The video was very dark as the sun set and you could not see the band well after the first few minutes. I tried to enhanced it in Adobe premiere and it didn’t help much… and then I remembered that virtualdub has the ability to adjust brightness and contrast at the source, so that’s what I did. I cranked up the brighgtness, adjusted contrast for the last 11min of the capture and then did the work in adobe. You can actually see them playing now! Sure, it looks like 1980s night vision security footage, but still, you can actually see them.

Recorded by: Rodney Parker
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced (denoise the snowstorm) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video