FINALLY got all the tapes recorded! Thankfully, most of them were still in pretty good condition.

One had tape that was literally sliced in half down the middle but it miraculously still played somehow. Half the video is just garbled.

One had tape that got all jumbled up so I had to manually replace it. After that it worked pretty well.

I think one or two were just completely unreadable. Either they had nothing on them or whatever was on them is garbage now, unfortunately.

One tape, coincidentally the last tape I plugged in, doesn't actually work in the mini tape to full tape converter. It just spits it back out for some reason. I think it might be the physical housing of the tape. I could try manually placing it in a different housing, but I don't want to risk it if there is actually stuff on the tape because I could end up damaging it. It's also physically stuck inside of the converter now because I tried to put it in again and it wasn't very happy with that lol, but the film itself should be fine.

Other than that, though, everything was in pretty dang good quality for being this old. I'm pretty impressed. My mom took good care of them. It's a good thing I got to them when I did though, because a few more years probably would not have been kind to these tapes that are degrading with every passing day.

Now it's time to compress it all so that I can fit it on 64gb sticks. The total amount of space the 1080p versions take up is 104 GB. I'll try 720p and half the bitrate to see how it looks and go from there.

Welp... It's a good thing I was done because when I took the back plate off to get the tape out the thing actually just exploded and some of the pieces snapped. Very cool.