Gaston but "Gaston" causes VHS Generational Loss

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Hope you enjoy!

There are a few quirks about this video though:

• The first two "generations" (-1 and 0) are a digital copy and a LaserDisc (respectively). The LaserDisc put the video on my VHS tape for the first time.
• Generations 13 is recorded with EP speed, but all the others come from an unbroken chain of SP recordings. Generation 14 also starts about 1.4 seconds later than it should due to lack of footage. Both are due to technicalities when making the video.
• The Gaston at "Then goes tromping around wearing boots like Gaston" should have activated generation 20, but it doesn't because that "Gaston" is completely inaudible. Plus Generation 21 is completely broken, and 22 would look very similar.

Equipment and software used:

• Pioneer CLD-V870 LaserDisc player (playing the LaserDisc to VHS and capture card)
• Sony SLV-N81 VCR (recording and playing back to capture card, all rewinding)
• Sony SLV-775HF (playing back for the other to record)
• Sony T120 VHS tape (odd number generations)
• TDK T120 VHS tape (even number generations)
• Canopus ADVC110 (capturing and digitizing video)
• VEGAS Video Capture (capturing from the Canopus card)
• Sony Movie Studio (assembling in an interlaced timeline and exporting uncompressed)
• AVISynth+ (QTGMC deinterlacing, nnedi3_rpow2 upscaling, script below)
• Virtualdub2 (saving to Apple ProRes format for YouTube)

AVISynth+ script:

SetFilterMTMode("DEFAULT_MT_MODE", 2)
AVISource("D:\Gaston Generational Loss uncompressed.avi")
ConvertToYUV444()
AssumeBFF()
SetFilterMTMode("QTMGC", MT_MULTI_INSTANCE)
QTGMC( Preset="Faster", SourceMatch=3, Lossless=2, MatchEnhance=0.75, TR2=1, Sharpness=0.1) # Choose preset based on overall speed/quality you want. See Y below
nnedi3_rpow2(rfactor = 8)
Enable MT!
Prefetch(2)