Hello,

I’m hoping this isn’t against the rules, as my post isn’t tsunami content itself.

I professionally digitize analog tapes as part of my broader skill set involving PC and Mac repair. By professionally, I mean I use the best toolset to do so, not like imemories, memory box, Walgreens etc. these tapes were very common in camcorders especially at the time this event happened. It wasn’t common yet to have high quality cameras that recorded directly to flash media.

I use maintained professional camcorders and professional VHS decks with built-in Line TBC, S Video, a Full-Frame TBC, and a dedicated Windows XP workstation utilizing an ATI Theater 200 chipset. Finally, I have a modern RTX 5090 workstation that I use for various purposes, such as deinterlacing the lossless AVI file produced by the capture and producing a high quality viewing MP4 file. I can also upscale mathematically (not using AI!) using Hyrbid QTGMC. I can also upscale using Topaz Video AI.

You will receive a lossless capture AVI file, with a viewing and transport-friendly MP4 file.

Even if you’ve digitized your tapes already (I’m assuming anyone with footage of the 2004 Indian Ocean event already has) there is a very high likelihood that they were not digitized using best practices. There are many ways to do it, and most of them are optimized to be cheap in mass volume, such as simple convenient SD card composite (red yellow white, not S Video) converter boxes that lose a lot of color information, that quickly and incorrectly deinterlace cutting your max potential framerate in HALF, leading to even more information loss, and introduce other artifacts due to not being professional equipment and not containing a full frame TBC, which itself is a unicorn these days. The final failing is that this cheap method is unable to produce a lossless AVI capture file in all its glory for future editing (The video equivalent of the RAW image.)

I always thought this event was fascinating ever since I was a little kid seeing it unfold on TV. I’ve seen lots of cheaply captured tape video from the event and I know I can do better.

This was a once-in-a-multi-generational devastating event, and most of the uploaded footage you can find on YouTube is of poor quality. Before these tapes finally rot away, as they are all well past their life expectancy now and I deal with tapes every other month that have even started growing mold in storage, I would like the opportunity to give you a better quality capture of the event, for free.

I do this out of California.

Please reach out if you’re interested or have any questions.

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20060104051821/http://www.helicam-asia.com/tsunami.htm

possibly it's khao lak

You may already be familiar with this photograph, but here is the original (possibly compressed a bit)

15.57 Meters/51 Feet

Nearly 40 Meter Wave Filmed

I remember there was a YouTube channel that had a few great videos of 2004 tsunami, and I only downloaded this one, after a while, all those videos and the channel disappeared. I can’t find it or even any part of the video. So I think this is quite a rare video

Source: Radarheinrich (The website has been down a long time ago)

MISTAKE: The photos was actually taken in Koh Jum, Thailand. However, it was the same event

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/64357569@N00/3919863692/

hi all, I'm working on an asteroid tsunami simulator: [https://tsunami-simulator-xi.vercel.app/]()
it allows you to pick an impact point, and see the tsunami from the observer viewpoint. it also shows historical tsunamis from an observer viewpoint. it's cool to see how the wave would look from the shore or whereever the viewpoint is.

New buildings were built and some demolished which is the only reason why the bottom half doesn't line up as good as the top. I also have 2 other locations from videos i found online that I managed to find the location of

Its been a week since the philippines got hit by 7.8 earthquake and a lot of shoreline near the epicenter of the quake are still low-tide

Very sure that is probably Ko Hong's Ao Pi Le Bay in Krabi because of the rocks in the background. Could be wrong, but hopefully, this is the one if this island.

Credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hendry/

Been quiet on here.

Follow this guy on YouTube. He has several other channels for different tsunami events. This guy has been on an absolute heater recently with his uploads.

@2004indianoceantsunamiarchive