As of yesterday, we have started the slow train to upload videos back up again. I still have possession of the bulk of Walt Brownell's tape collection, and I got myself set up to digitize and upload the videos to Kevin. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks!! I only have one digitizing set up at this time and since it takes almost as long to upload them to Kevin as it does to convert them, that may be all I'll be able to handle. I have one converting while another is uploading, and I set an initial goal of doing three tapes complete per day. This is all really new to me so will take me a while to finish learning and fine tune my routine. As I get used to this I may figure out a way to at least speed up the converting. At this time I have only one VCR that I know is working properly and that I can trust, and I'm working on a back up for that. I think I have around 500 tapes left to do! Right now I am working on the Miss Ashley II P-51 tape series and have I think 22 more of those to get through. I uploaded tape #235 to Kevin last night and have #236 uploading right now with #237 and #238 in the can waiting and #239 converting right now.
I am interested in hearing from anyone that would be interested in the tapes after I am finished with them. I have been trying to organize this effort to be done at little or no cost to anyone involved and so far that has been successful. I am not looking to sell the tapes, just find them a good home and maybe some one else may want to convert and archive them for their own use or load them on some other site. I figure the more sites they are on the better the chance that they will survive for people to find them in the future. Whether you like Windy's stuff or not, I think they should be preserved as there is a lot of neat stuff on there, a lot of the main characters from stunt through the years, and a lot of other history, not to mentions thousands of neat models to look at and get inspired by. I'm not really much of a video guy, and I probably have only watched a few of Windy's videos through the years, but I think they have a deserved spot in our history, and with all the recent talk about the hobby shrinking and dying, I think it is to our advantage to save as much of our heritage as possible. So, this isn't a right away need or anything, but if you are near the St. Louis area and would like to take possession of these as I get finished with each box ( I think I have 13 of them) drop me a message. I have approached the AMA about donating these to their library but that is a sketchy possibility. I'm close enough to Muncie to drive them there and eliminate any shipping, or maybe anyone passing through St. Louis on their way to NATS could drop them off?? That would still need to be worked out as time moves on. I just do not have the room to store them long term, and would like to stream line things enough to clear out of my local storage locker where I have them stored. I ain't getting any younger!! And it's time to stream line things.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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