Lost Digital8 tape: Snow falling in 16:9

I'm still slowly going through the collection of 14 Digital8 video tapes I received last year. Most contain footage from 2001 to 2005 of road trips, mountain biking, speed boat racing, skiing, and snowboarding.

Of the 10 tapes I've gone through so far, these are the only video clips I've found that was recording in 16:9 widescreen mode. The first part was recorded February 18th, 2002, and the second part was recorded March 16th, 2003.

YouTube's re-compression has not been kind to the snowflakes, despite my best attempt to provide a high quality source (854x480 H.264 at 12.3 Mbps!). The smearing and blockiness you see is YouTube's fault, not the camcorder's (at least when it stays in focus).

Here's a link to download the original source video I uploaded to YouTube, if you want to see its true quality:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tub1sg5w5hy475k

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[uxwbill]

The snow actually didn't look too bad on this end.

[vwest7ife]

@uxwbill I've added a link in the description to download the source video, if you want to see how good it looked before YouTube re-compressed it.

[bakonfreek]

damn, youtube failed

[hunter371]

Youtube really does a disservice to this video. The link provided provides a pretty dramatic difference in quality. Isn't snow falling always nice?

[ThisGuyFrritz]

It reminds me of this video:

Steve Roach - Darkest Before Dawn

Note that there are 2 videos with the same name. It's the shorter one I'm talking about.

[watershed44]

@vwest7ife:

GOLF STROM here....remember me "Stromy"?

I haven't forgotten you or vortex. Muhahahaha! Still there lurking around..forever!