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1. VHS Player was disassembled, heads were manually cleaned and player put back together

2. Played VHS Tape through lossless capture card, saved as uncompressed AVI

3. Used AviSynth for first pass processing (Cropping overscan, fixing levels, deinterlacing using QTGMC, denoising/smoothing using DenoiseMC, working with edges and aliasing using Santiag, removing dirt/scratches using RemoveDirtMC, fixing chroma bleed issues, fixing oversharpening, second pass scratch/line removal with MDegrain1, trimming only the segment needed)

4. AVS Script was passed through to x264 at high quality settings 2 Pass @ 18000 kb/s target rate

5. Audio was imported into Izotope RX 6 Audio Editor, where several filters were applied (De-Hum, De-crackle, Spectral De-Noise, and and EQ filter for static/really high frequencies), and was exported as a 16-bit WAV file

6. Exported video and audio were brought into Premiere Pro CC 2017 and re-synced

7. Video was manually color corrected using Premiere's Lumetri Color Correction engine

8. Exported final file using Adobe Media Encoder with H264 VBR 2 Pass@4000 kb/s video and AAC 256 kb/s audio.