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I have an old vhs of a show featuring Massacre at a metal fest in Tampa, FL in 1986. the tape has a lot of jumps because the filmer didn't feel it necessary to tape the talk between the songs. One thing I do have, also from that time is the audio from the sound board of the same show. Technically, neither recording is complete and the Video has a few more gens (at least four or five from the master) on it from the audio (which I believe is no more than three from the master, I had a freind who knew the band).

No matter how I slice it I know there will be a lot of work ahead of me for the following reasons:

1. The audio on the video is slightly sharper in pitch (hence a shade faster than the audio on the cassette.

2. In order to keep the cassette audio complete (for the portion that I have), gaps will need to be filled with some kind of visual material.

There is also this consideration:

Massacre is considered an important band in death metal, they were one of the first to sound like that.

This raises a couple questions:

1. First if I go through with this attempt at a "restoration" of this performance will it clash with TTD's policies about "tweaking" sources?
I have all intent to share this when done and is it ethically wrong to do such a reassemblage?

2. How do I determine which sound recording is off?
and can anyone recomend a good program and tutorial to work with?

3. When restoring gaps in the video what would be appropriate filler?
there are few spare parts to this and at the moment I have considered using open source news footage from the time to just a "scene missing" card.

I have no intent of equalizing any of the audio sources to maintain their purity. Where video sound is the only source I plan to just matrix the two to keep the flow smooth so the diferences will be heard.
I know things of this nature have been done here before (Sunshine Daydream, comes to mind)
Any guidence to keep this legal for sharing here would be appreciated.

Current software that I have on hand for editing include a trial copy of Pinacle Studio 8, TMPGnc DVD Editor 3, and Roxio Easy Media creatror. If anyone knows how to use any of these to their full effect and can give guidence, it would be greatly appreciated.