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nerdway

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21. February 2004 @ 13:16

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Hi all, I've got many Hi-8 tapes, want to convert to DVD.

I'll use Canopus ADVC-100, P4/1.8GHz/512MG system with 120G Caviar 7200/8MG drive. Output from one audio + one video wire from Sony Hi-8 camcorder into the Canopus, then firewire to the hard drive.

Then edit process with menus, burn the CD. Each tape is about 90 minutes.

Anyone else been down this road - please advise as to snags you hit, or show-stoppers? Or, did it just go great with absolutely no problems ;)

Thanks....

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Minion

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22. February 2004 @ 14:19

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If you Know what you are Doing there should Not be any problems at all...The Canopus Device is a High Quality device and shouldn"t cause you any problems..
You should use the Best Quality Mpeg2 encoder you can find because the Quality of the Mpeg encoder you use to Convert your Edited Files to Mpeg2 for DVD will Have a Huge effect on how good the Video Looks when authored to DVD...There are Only 4 encoders that are really worth useing if your Goal is the Highest Possible Quality and they are "Tmpgenc" Mainconcept Encoder 1.4" "Canopus Procoder 1.5" and "CinemaCraft Encoder 2.67" ,Most all other encoders will Produce Substandard Quality to the Trained Eye....Cheers

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nerdway

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22. February 2004 @ 16:34

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OK, thanks.. reason I ask is, I don't have that system yet, so it's an assumption I'm making that I'll get the system, with the ADVC100, and be able to generate reasonable quality DVD from my Hi8 tapes. As for knowing what I'm doing, well, I'm really not there yet, but I've been scouring this site and dvdhelp and I think I'll get there.

One more question: for a given 90 minute tape, and the kind of system I described, what kind of time do you think it will take to go from capture to completed DVD? Assume minimal authoring, and correct settings on the encoder, etc.

Thanks!

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Minion

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22. February 2004 @ 16:52

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Well that would depend on what encoder you were useing as some encoder are quite slow like TMPGEnc and some are Very fast Like CinemaCraft encoder or Mainconcept encoder...so it would depend on what encoder you were useing , the System you stated in your First Post isn"t a very Fast system so it will Take even longer to encode a project, You should Consider getting a 2.5ghz or Higher CPU as the P-4 1.8ghz is one of the Old Willamete Chips that use the 0.18 Micron Fabrication process and are Hotter then say a Northwood Chip and the 1.8ghz Runs on a 400mhz FSB which only supports up to I believe a P-4 2.2ghz Max so getting a Newer Chip with a Motherboard that runs on a 533mhz or even a new 800mhz Bus will allow you to Upgrade your CPU more easilly in the Future...You can even Get an Intel 2.5ghz chip (Celeron) with a Motherboard with a 533mhz FSB for about $100 which would be faster than a 1.8ghz P-4 and Cheaper...So if you can I would go for a Faster system than 1.8ghz because Video encodeing and editing and stuff like that really sucks up the Resources..Before the system I have now I had a P-4 1.7ghz and it really Lagged when doing any encodeing or editing...well anyways Good Luck

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nerdway

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22. February 2004 @ 19:16

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Thanks again... I'll redo my system specs, and post back with results of first DVD when I get there.

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