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wordsmith
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23. May 2005 @ 06:58 |
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OK Mil Rudic, you charlatan. The link to your website is just a pitch for your overpriced book. You can't even spell (can you say PEACE?)
I hope nobody is tempted to blow $30 on this trash, when all the advice you need is on this site, or DVDRHELP, or Lordsmurf, along with a few others.
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recorder1
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9. June 2005 @ 03:29 |
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So what is a dummie supposed to do?
i'm almost ready to buy that book..
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milrudic
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9. June 2005 @ 03:55 |
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Hi wordsmith
First of all if you dont like my book thats fair enough but there is no need to become abusive mate. Given that you have sufficient knowledge in this area to you my Ebook would be an expensive option to others an inexpensive one. There are some people who dont wish to spend alot of time on the Internet and end up finding so many different ways of converting vhs tapes to dvd whether the work properly or not is a different story. My Ebook is aimed at them. No one is forcing you to buy my Ebook i have presented it on the Internet for people to decide for themselves. As for the price my book could save alot of people time and money. I think the worst thing anyone could do is pay high prices for a Studio to do the conversions.
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howndawg
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23. June 2005 @ 08:45 |
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i've had more luck with the ADS box over the Plextor ConvertX and SONY VRD-VC10 (in terms of A/V sync). Thing is with the SONY one, you don't need a computer to get your final DVD copy, it has a DVD burner built-in... kinda cool, but only if you don't care what your DVD menu looks like
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wordsmith
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24. June 2005 @ 09:28 |
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Milrudic,
Charlatan isn't as abusive a term as I might have used. My real concern was that a) you can't spell, and b) your advice about using duct tape to combat copy protection was a signal that you are not yet fully competent to give advice to others.
True, I have not read your book, so it may well be a worthy tome. If so, I apologise if you are offended. However, $30 is still a steep price for this level of instruction, so my other real point was to let people know that this BB is a good place to start - for free.
Meanwhile, I admire your entrepreneural spirit, and if you ever want me to do some pre-production editing, let me know - it is what I do!
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25. June 2005 @ 18:05 |
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milrudic,
Read the forum rules. No advertising. Don't post that link again and remove it from your sig.
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milrudic
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27. June 2005 @ 05:51 |
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My Apologies have removed and altered the signature
Converting VHS to DVD Easily and Simply and cost effectively
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27. June 2005 @ 17:16 |
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howndawg,
Your sig has been removed from your post. Read the forum rules. No advertising.
Do not post again with it in your sig. You will be banned if it is in your sig again.
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doug1
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28. June 2005 @ 21:26 |
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my question might be related to this forum. i plan to transfer my home video, mostly vhs and v8, to digital format. what i am concerned is that if the burned dvd can be read by a dvd player in a different zone. if not i might be forced to use a lower quality VCD format which does not have this restriction. tks.
doug
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milrudic
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29. June 2005 @ 00:32 |
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Hi Doug,
Once you have converted and burnt your movies to DVD lets assume it is in Region 4 as your DVD burner might be set to 4. Download DVD Shrink from the Internet. It requires that you have Nero as your burning software. Burn another copy with DVD Shrink and there is an option to burn as Region Free this will ensure that it will work on most DVD Players. But there is no guarantee that it will work on all Stand Alone DVD Players there are always exceptions
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Mil
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pfh
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29. June 2005 @ 01:42 |
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True for DVD Shrink, however, you don't HAVE TO HAVE Nero for burning. Just load the transcode from DVD Shrink into burn application.
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wordsmith
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29. June 2005 @ 07:31 |
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Hi Doug,
As PFH rightly states you are not limited to using Nero with Shrink.
However your original question left a few things unclear. Do you propose to transfer your tapes to DVD "the easy way" using a standalone PVR? If so, the best thing for you to do is get a copy of good authoring program and then you can edit out any unwanted material such as commercials or just plain boring stuff. You can build your own menus and finish up with a kick-ass product. I usually transfer my tapes in the one hour (HQ) mode, and then consolidate them on my computer using my preferred tool (if original is longer than one hour it takes more than one disk obviously). I then use DVDShrink to reduce the resultant oversized file to the requisite 4.6 gig. Shrink uses built in algorithms to reduce file size with very little loss of quality (in fact it has some built in processing features that I don't pretend to understand, but which seem to clean up my old tapes to some degree). The process is time consuming, but the beauty of Shrink is that you can set it up to run at bedtime, and it will turn off the computer when it has finished rendering. Come down in the morning and burn the resultant ISO file using whatever burning software your little heart desires.
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doug1
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29. June 2005 @ 16:38 |
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thanks to Mil and wordsmith for offering me tips. i now consider buying an entry level converter, which allows me to play vhs and v8 and digitizes the a/v signal and sends to computer via usb.
i have a question about DVDShrink. you mentioned shrinking results in very little loss of quality. does it mean unnoticeable? i have a 100 min long tape and if i shrink it to 60 min will it not be noticeable? does the original length matter? you guys' experience are very valuable.
doug
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wordsmith
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29. June 2005 @ 20:07 |
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I have shrunk two hour movies down to fit on a single disk. They are still two hours long, but at a lower frame rate. You don't reduce a 100 minutes down to sixty, you simply use higher compression rates to get the same amount of time from a 4.7 gig disk.
DVD Shrink uses clever analysis to determine what to compress in order to do the least degradation (and all this while you sleep, you lucky devil) Typically, it will advise you of the degree of shrinkage as a percentage. I have found little or no visible reduction in the resultant quality, and in fact my VHS tapes usually look better than ever, since the sharpening algorithms seem to enhance the rapidly fading (yes, fading) magnetic images.
Either way it is the only way you are going to achieve the file size you need to get the tape onto a single disk.
BTW forget about buying anything other than a decent PVR (BenQ or Daytek are what I work with). You are going to have to get one sooner or later as VHS is dead. The realtime conversion to disk beats computer capture so I no longer bother with the latter. Post processing software like TAD is a good investment, after that.
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doug1
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29. June 2005 @ 23:05 |
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Thanks. Could you tell me the model numbers of PVRs? I feel confused. I thought Personal Video Recorder does what I described, i.e., converting analog signals to digital and store into computer. It uses RCA A/V connectors as input. Am I wrong?
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pfh
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30. June 2005 @ 00:16 |
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Dvd Shrink is a tool for use with dvd's so therfore it's application is intended for post authoring. That is, you still need an anolog to digital conversion/transfer like you are thinking but if you find that AFTER authoring this dvd is still too big- then DVD Shrink can transcode it to fit. It is of no benefit until you have acheived whatever A/D method you have chosen and then authored this to dvd structure.
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wordsmith
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30. June 2005 @ 05:13 |
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Doug, I must apologise for two errors in my typing. First of all I said "frame rate", when I should have said bit rate (I was trying to take a short cut so as not to confuse you, but may actually have done worse in the process). Secondly my authoring software is TDA not TAD - it stands for TMPGEnc DVD Author. Check it out.
There are a number of different "Sizes" when digitizing video - from 720 by 640 on down. A Digital Video Recorder (or PVR as some prefer) will use a smaller size at each longer recording time - I won't itemise them here because they differ from PAL to NTSC - the one I quoted is from the North American standard (whereabouts are you?).
The picture quality doesn't degrade noticeably until you get down to longer record times than three hours, although four hour recording on my Daytek P30 is still comparable to a standard VHS tape. Some machines have different CODECs so quality can vary. Go to www.DVDRHELP.com and check the reviews on the DVRs that are available in your part of the world - you may see my comments on the Daytek (Liteon) and the BenQ 300 - both are good, but the Liteon based machines use a Guider menu that is absolutely foolproof.
The reason I recommend doing the transfers using the DVR is that you can walk away and play on your computer and come back to a first class capture every time (using RCA cables between tape player and DVR) and you also get to use it in place of the VCR for off-air recording, which is way better than VHS.
My acknowledgements to the previous poster also for reminding you again that DVD Shrink is a "post production" tool. It is not totally intuitive, but check the tutorials on this and other sites, especially anything written by Lord Smurf.
Happy transfers!
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doug1
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30. June 2005 @ 20:53 |
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Thanks for all these comments. After searching on web I now have better understanding on PVR. Noivce people like me may check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_video_recorder
for more details. It is basically a digital analog of the analog VCR with programmable recording capability to TV broadcast, and with more. My purpose is to convert tapes with analog signal to digital format,(VCD/DVD) not to record TV shows or watch TV in real time. Therefore, I do not need the higher cost PVRs or TV cards, rather the low end DV converter or capture cards, in stand alone (external) mode. After buying a converter then I can move to post authoring using either of the suggested software. Again, thnaks to all you guys.
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doug1
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30. June 2005 @ 21:03 |
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Let me answer my original question. I was told, and read some lines on web, that the DVD transferred from home video does not have a region code, and can be played on DVD players of all regions.
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wordsmith
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1. July 2005 @ 18:58 |
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Doug, that is substantially correct.
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doug1
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19. July 2005 @ 19:22 |
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I now choose a different approach. I borrow a PVR which allows me to covert my VHS to DVD in DVD+RW. I copied two titles in HQ format into one DVD+RW. Then I use the software coming with my Pioneer DVD writer Sonic RecordNow! to make duplicated DVDs. It works fine. However, I wish to author my video to take out of unwanted parts, add chapters, or insert title pages to separate these two titles, or, I may want to separate these two titles into individual files in the future. I copied the DVD image to HD. Only .gi and .iso formats are supported.
The addional packaged software Sonic MyDVD is a limited edition and it does not allow me to do authoring.
I downloaded TMPGEnc and it does not recognize either .gi or .iso files, neither the files copied directly to HD by Win2000. It seems that I am stucked. How should I proceed?
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doug1
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20. July 2005 @ 03:13 |
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Corrections: The freeware TMPGEnc cannot read files on DVD directly but the commercial product TMPGEnc DVD Author can. Surely I used the 30 day trial version. I copied all files into HD and used TMPGEnc DVD Author to read in each title and do authoring. However, it allows me to combine two titles (originally in one DVD+RW) into one title but does not allow me to incoporate two titles after authoring (two volumes as output) into one DVDR. (I have two short titles.) I tried unsuccessfully several software including DVD Shrink, super DVD Ripper, and DVD Decrypter. Therefore, I need other software to do the job. So far I have not found one on Afterdawn web site. May be some one can help.
Two other minor problems with TMPGEnc DVD Author are 1) I cut some frames unrelated to the main vedio at the begining but the cut was not clean and could not be found within TMPGEnc DVD Author. I only found it after replaying the saved authored DVD files. 2) I was forced to do the authoring again by cutting more frames but every time the program converts the original DVD files to .mpg files first while it takes time and redundant. It would be better for TMPGEnc DVD Author to read in .mpg files it created previously.
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doug1
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20. July 2005 @ 07:19 |
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DVD Shrink actually treats menu created by MPEGEnc DVD Author as an independent title. So when I combine two titles into one DVDR I actually got 4 titles. The playing on DVD player was no good. I could not switch between titles during playing.
Then I tried MPEGEnc DVD Author again to combine two titles in one DVDR. I put each title on different track and created menu for them. At output stage, an error message "stream writing error" always occurred on my win3k OS. Don't know what was going on.
Does anyone know how to combine 2 titles in one DVD?
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doug1
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20. July 2005 @ 10:36 |
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The problem was that I did not have enough disk space.
The created DVD has menu on the title and two tracks with links to play, very nice. TMPGEnc DVD Author works well.
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wordsmith
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21. July 2005 @ 19:16 |
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Doug
Sorry I missed your earlier posts, but Afterdawn seems not to notify me on a timely basis that there are new threads coming through.
I love TDA, and I have found it very easy to create custom front pages by simply enlarging the size of a clip frame to fill the menu page (thus "covering" the rather blah templates that come with the package). I'm also glad you finally caught on to the the use of a PVR/DVR to do the initial transfers. If I want to capture a two hour tape, I typically do it to two discs in one hour segments at the HQ setting. That ensures that I get the maximum quality in the transfer. I then capture these DVDs into TDA, edit and combine (outtakes simply becoming chapter points) Once I have the finished edits, I can switch to DVDShrink if I have too large a file, and let it run at bedtime. As I said in an earlier post, it will turn itself off when finished, while you enjoy a blissful night's sleep.
Happy transfers.
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