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| 647370 | 2008-03-08 11:19:00 | Whats happening with Bluray-R? The players or the codec? |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 647371 | 2008-03-08 17:25:00 | If quality is less of an issue,and getting maximum duration is important You dont exactly need DVDs shortplay 8mbps for nannas birthday footage. You can always encode as ~1000kbps divx which will play on many standalone DVD players if that suits you. Whats happening with Bluray-R? There is nothing wrong with the quality. And you dont have to know about Divx or whatever it is. (Not all dvd players can play Divx anyway) Once you record and burn using something like Nero and change the booktype to DVD before burning to DVD, it'll play in any DVD. I wouldnt bother with Bluray, unless you're going to fork out for a few blanks, which arent cheap, and for the players which arent that cheap either. Just to play a few hrs of something. I wouldnt waste the money, or space, on blank bluray dvds or the player. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 647372 | 2008-03-08 19:38:00 | I have tried three methods. 1. VCR with a Canopus ADVC100 Analogue to Digital Converter then DV firewire cable to the PC from that. 2. VCR connected directly to my ATI All in Wonder card 3. VCR To my DV Camera, then fed the camera tape in via Firewire. All connections I used Premiere Pro to capture and the best results were by using the DV Camera. The final quality will depend on the quality of the tapes in the first place to some extent. Premiere can remove some noise but in general Tapes are crap quality to begin with compared to current DV. crap in = crap out. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 647373 | 2008-03-08 19:43:00 | Just remember, for a VHS, it will take a long time for the whole process. Be ready for that! No longer than DV. As it is input into the PC it should be capturing as AVI since it should be converting from Analogue to DV so it should be no different to feeding in from a Tape DV camera. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 647374 | 2008-03-08 19:45:00 | Well of course it depends on how good the video is, or the program youre recording. It'd be the same, as if you recorded a TV program, without plugging the aerial in. You're right DV is better than most. The last time I used DV, all I did was use Moviemaker to transfer it and edit it, then copied the finished video back to DV tape. And then saved a copy of the edited video and then burned it to DVD. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 647375 | 2008-03-08 19:47:00 | What is the process for transferring our collection of VHS tapes onto DVDs or into video files? Please advise hardware/software I would need, as well as cost. I will be either using XP Pro or Vista - haven't bought the PC yet!! Would prefer to do it at home, not get a firm to do it for us. Thanks XP Pro or Vista = Either Good size Hard Drive(s) Plenty of Ram. I use XP, 2Gb Ram, 1.5TB HDD space for a lot of DV work. Software Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects. For a good little Toy for Analogue to Digital check Canopus web site at the ADVC110. It is a low'ish price analogue to digitalconverter, although some Graphic cards can also do this. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 647376 | 2008-03-08 20:04:00 | Well ram isnt that important. But a big hdd is, and the hdd needs to be formatted in NTFS. If you do videos bigger than 4 GB. Otherwise, you'll have probs. I've only got 1 GB of ram, never had any prob with video editing. Altho I dont use expensive, or memory hungry video editing programs either. You dont need anything fancy like Premiere which isnt cheap. Nero or one of these freebie programs are just as good. Just as long as it can load the format you've saved the video in, and the program can burn it to DVD. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 647377 | 2008-03-08 20:30:00 | I would buy one of these www.bondandbond.co.nz and connect your VCR up to it. Saves you having to convert mpeg files to DVD format with your computer. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 647378 | 2008-03-08 21:00:00 | Transferring VHS to a Single Layer DVD is no problem if after editing out the ads etc, the movie is over 4.7 or whatever gigs :) I use TMPGenc DVD Author v1.5 to edit my original film, them use DVD Shrink v3.2 to burn onto DVD. I use the following Capture Format Profile: Vide Codec: MPEG-2 Codec Capture Size: 720 x 576 Bitrate: 6000 Kbps Capture Quality: Optimal Compression Frame Rate: 25.000 fps Audio Codec: MPEG-1 Audio Layer-II Bitrat: 224 kbps I am slowly converting some 200 three-hour VHS tapes of previous Formula One races to DVD format - and yes, it is a very slow process :) I now record the races and or films etc directly on my HDD, edit and burn to DVD |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 647379 | 2008-03-08 22:44:00 | The players or the codec? THE BURNABLE DISC |
michael_elliston (11766) | ||
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