Re: Questions That Should Have Been Asked Before Buying Equipment !!!
- From: "Graham Hughes" <graham.hughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:30:15 +0100
I'd go with either a good digital camcorder with pass through facility, or a
good external analogue to digital convertor.
Pro's for the camcorder, has other uses, like a camcorder!, generally easy
to manage and connect.
Cons, cost, need to ensure it has av-in and supports pass through, otherwise
you'll be recording to mini-dv tape and then into pc, long winded and wears
the cam. Doesn't always guarantee video/audio syncronicty.
Good A>D convertor, such as canopus or miglia. Pro's, have chips in which
virtually gurantee syncronicity, cheaper than cam, gives excellent quality,
easy to use and set up. If you buy higher end they will also do D>A
Con's, no other uses.
As you have quite a bit to do and it is very precious, I'd go for one of the
canopus convertors.
Graham
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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com
"Big Mac" <BigMac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I just bought a Gateway 825GM. Specs are P4 550 (3.4 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1MB
>L2
> cache), 250 GB SATA HDD (7200 RPM, 8MB cache), 1 GB DDR (dual channel
> memory), ATI Radeon X300 SE (128 MB PCI-Express Card), Avermedia M-150 TV
> Tuner Card, 8.5 GB Double Layer 16X DVD+/-RW and 16X DVD Drives, 8-in-1
> Digital Media Reader, 2 Firewire and 7 USB ports, Win XP MCE 2005.
> I bought this unit for the purpose of capturing, editing, and converting
> VHS
> video to DVD. Advertisement in paper and salesman said that it was just
> what
> I needed for my desired purpose. I have spent the last three weeks
> downloading driver updates for the various hardware and software that are
> included with the package and trying to make them all work together. After
> much aggravation and pulling of hair, (I am now completely bald), I was
> able
> to make my first attempt at capturing and converting my VHS video.
> I bought a new Toshiba VHS/DVD combo player to play my source videos on. I
> used the component (yellow) video output and used an inline converter
> (Radio
> Shack Analog/Digital A/V Signal Converter) to convert it to Svideo that
> would
> input into the Avermedia M-150 card. I used the RCA audio (red & white)
> and
> input those into the M-150 inputs also.
> To start simple, I just wanted to capture and entire 2 hour VHS tape in
> Movie Maker 2 that came with the computer and burn it onto a DVD for an
> archive copy. I set the video capture format to "best available for
> display
> on my computer" which defaulted to .wmv at 720 x 480 and 30 fps. I
> captured
> the entire tape and choose data format for viewing on my computer when
> burning to DVD. After the project was complete, I noticed a few problems.
> The
> 2 hours of captured video had been broken into over 300 individual clips
> even
> though I had only hit start capture at the beginning and stop capture at
> the
> end. I have since been told that there is a setting that I need to change
> in
> Movie Maker that will prevent this from happening. I also noticed that in
> both the captured video in Movie Maker and on the DVD+R that I had burned,
> there were many places that had distortion in the video that was not seen
> in
> the orginal VHS source tape. Some video looked ok, but there were a lot of
> places that had distortions. There would be a horizontal band of
> distortion
> that would appear across the middle of the screen and then go away. There
> would also be vertical distortion were the outlines of characters would
> morph
> and bend and them clear up somewhat.
> My question is where do I begin in eliminating these problems. One
> suggestion was that I needed to capture the analog video in DV-AVI format.
> I
> see this option in Movie Maker but it is not available to me. Help says
> that
> the option is only available when capturing from a digital VCR or digital
> camcorder. Another suggestion is that I need to buy a digital camcorder
> with
> pass through capability and output my VCR into the digital camcorder and
> then
> into the Fire Wire port on my computer. Other suggestions have said to buy
> an
> S-VHS VCR and various hardware filter devices and run the VCR output
> through
> these before inputing into the computer.
> I am new to video capture, editing, etc and am also not a computer genius.
> I
> just want to be able to get a good a product as possible without spending
> any
> money that is not necessary. That being said, these VHS source videos do
> mean
> a great deal to me and I would like to do a good job. I have 20 2 hour VHS
> tapes of my son that died in an auto accident a few years ago at 19 years
> of
> age. I want to take these videos and hundreds of scanned photos and place
> them on DVD to distribute to family members that I will not allow near my
> original sources. I want to share without endangering my originals.
> Do I have the necessary equipment for doing a good job of this or do I
> need
> to acquire additional equipment or software? I am asking those who have
> experience for their advice and suggestions. Please help.
.
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