VHS-to-DVD

[gareth]

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Hi. Looking for some advice ....

I need recommendations for a PC-based product (USB preferred, PCI considered
if necessary) to transfer VHS cassettes onto DVD. I'd prefer to do it this
way rather than with a DVD recorder so that I can do some editting (removing
ad breaks, etc.) before burning the results to DVD.

I was looking at the Dazzle DVC90 from Pinnacle, but I've heard that it has
problems with dropped frames - anyone had any experience with this product?
Or got any recommendations for alternatives?

TIA.

Gareth.

 

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"Gareth" <ihatespam@yahooo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. Looking for some advice ....
>
> I need recommendations for a PC-based product (USB preferred, PCI
> considered
> if necessary) to transfer VHS cassettes onto DVD. I'd prefer to do it this
> way rather than with a DVD recorder so that I can do some editting
> (removing
> ad breaks, etc.) before burning the results to DVD.
>
> I was looking at the Dazzle DVC90 from Pinnacle, but I've heard that it
> has
> problems with dropped frames - anyone had any experience with this
> product?
> Or got any recommendations for alternatives?
>
> TIA.
>
> Gareth.
>

You might reconsider the DVD Recorder approach, just
use a DVD-RW disk and you can bring that over to your
PC for editing and authoring a new DVD-R This way you
can basically record your VHS tape unattended, without
tying up a computer. Now a days, the two hour real-time
capture, is the most time consuming phase of the VHS
conversion process. With the cost of a refurbished DVD
Recorder approaching $150 this may be a less expensive
approach also.

Luck;
Ken

P.S. There are a number of good Hardware Direct to
DVD Compliant MPEG approaches for the PC, and
frame accurate MPEG editors like VideoReDo.

 

[Guest]

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Canopus ADVC Product line

http://www.canopus.us/US/products/ADVC_selection_guide/pm_advc_selection.asp

--

Dave Jones
www.vdoguy.com



"Gareth" <ihatespam@yahooo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. Looking for some advice ....
>
> I need recommendations for a PC-based product (USB preferred, PCI
considered
> if necessary) to transfer VHS cassettes onto DVD. I'd prefer to do it this
> way rather than with a DVD recorder so that I can do some editting
(removing
> ad breaks, etc.) before burning the results to DVD.
>
> I was looking at the Dazzle DVC90 from Pinnacle, but I've heard that it
has
> problems with dropped frames - anyone had any experience with this
product?
> Or got any recommendations for alternatives?
>
> TIA.
>
> Gareth.
>

 

[gareth]

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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:20:41 GMT, "The Videoguy" <dj76116NOSPAM@swbell.net>
wrote:

>Canopus ADVC Product line
>
>http://www.canopus.us/US/products/ADVC_selection_guide/pm_advc_selection.asp

Interesting - but doesn't look like the sort of "one-box" solution that
someone like me (i.e. pretty ignorant about video!) would be at home with.
Also, a little bit cheaper would be good .... ;-)

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

 

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"Gareth" <ihatespam@yahooo.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:20:41 GMT, "The Videoguy"
> <dj76116NOSPAM@swbell.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Canopus ADVC Product line
>>
>>http://www.canopus.us/US/products/ADVC_selection_guide/pm_advc_selection.asp
>
> Interesting - but doesn't look like the sort of "one-box" solution that
> someone like me (i.e. pretty ignorant about video!) would be at home with.
> Also, a little bit cheaper would be good .... ;-)
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, though.
>


I own an ADVC 100 from Canopus. I give it four stars. Plug it into a
fire-wire port on your computer. Plug any video source into either the SVHS
or Composite jacks on the ADVC100. Plug in the audio left and right from
the video source into the audio in jacks on the ADVC100. Launch your
capture program of choice. Select the ADVC100 as capture source. Start
capturing. Hit the Play button on video source. That's it. No computer
card. No conflicts. No installation. No hassles. Cheap for what it is
and does. Incidentally, it goes the other way, too. Firewire out of
computer to any video recording source, VCR, DVD Recorder, whatever. I know
many professionals (myself included) that choose this solution to digitizing
existing video tape. A best value device.

Steve King

 

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I prefer to capture the raw video in mpeg-2 format on the Hard Disk of
my computer and edit it before burning it to DVD+R. Unfortunately I
have not been able to find any software which would let me edit the
video from Hard Disk.
However, if one is prepared to capture on a DVD-RW medium, Sonic's
authoring software, MyDVD, which comes free with Sony DVD, also
provides functionality for capturing and editing video from a DVD
medium.
The Tutorial of MyDVD claims that after removing the unwanted
commercials in a recorded video, you can re-write the cleaned up
120-minute-video on a fresh DVD.
I have not tried this approach so far, but since I have not found any
good software for editing mpeg-2 video files from hard disk, I am
seriously considering trying out the approach mentioned in the
Tutorial.
I must add that I have a Radeon 8500 card which enables video capture.


P. Jayant

 

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Gareth <ihatespam@yahooo.com> wrote:
: On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:20:41 GMT, "The Videoguy" <dj76116NOSPAM@swbell.net>
: wrote:

:>Canopus ADVC Product line
:>
:>http://www.canopus.us/US/products/ADVC_selection_guide/pm_advc_selection.asp

: Interesting - but doesn't look like the sort of "one-box" solution that
: someone like me (i.e. pretty ignorant about video!) would be at home with.
: Also, a little bit cheaper would be good .... ;-)

: Thanks for the suggestion, though.

I think this is what you need:

http://www.canopus.us/US/products/MPEGPRO_EMR/pt_MPEGPRO_EMR.asp

It's USB. And even though I haven't owned any Canopus products, giving their
excellent support and word of mouth from all Canopus product owners I know, you
can't go wrong with this.

--Leonid

 

[Eric]

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> P.S. There are a number of good Hardware Direct to
> DVD Compliant MPEG approaches for the PC, and
> frame accurate MPEG editors like VideoReDo.

I'm going to second the VideoReDo suggestion. I'm almost done
converting years of tapes to a small set of DVDs. I captured in Mpg2
(because that's all my board does) and edit in VideoReDo. Amazingly
fast. I can mark all the stupid 5 second gaps (or 10 minutes of
"oops, the camera was left on") that I want out and then rewrite two
hours of video in 9 minutes or less.

It gives you a wide range of navigation options you can change. I've
got mine setup so I can easily move a frame, 1 second, 10 seconds, 30
seconds, or 5 minutes.

It also cuts and joins files.

Eric

 

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"jayant" <pjayant@sancharnet.in> wrote in message
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>I prefer to capture the raw video in mpeg-2 format on the Hard Disk of
> my computer and edit it before burning it to DVD+R. Unfortunately I
> have not been able to find any software which would let me edit the
> video from Hard Disk.
> However, if one is prepared to capture on a DVD-RW medium, Sonic's
> authoring software, MyDVD, which comes free with Sony DVD, also
> provides functionality for capturing and editing video from a DVD
> medium.
> The Tutorial of MyDVD claims that after removing the unwanted
> commercials in a recorded video, you can re-write the cleaned up
> 120-minute-video on a fresh DVD.
> I have not tried this approach so far, but since I have not found any
> good software for editing mpeg-2 video files from hard disk, I am
> seriously considering trying out the approach mentioned in the
> Tutorial.
> I must add that I have a Radeon 8500 card which enables video capture.
>
>
> P. Jayant

While I am a long time advocate of direct to DVD compliant
MPEG capture, if you are capturing with an AIW R8500DV
or other such vivo card then I'm surprised that you are getting
good results that way. Most using such equipment capture
to a less compressed format, and do their editing in that format.
Later they have to encode to DVD Compliant MPEG, which
takes a good deal of time.

A good frame accurate MPEG editor = VideoReDo at
www.VideoReDo.com Any Authoring program should
let you do GOP level ("I" frame) cuts, which normally
occurs every 1/2sec. This is usually quite good enough for
removing commercials as they use fade to black transitions,
and there would almost always be a black or near black
"I" frame to cut on. TMPGEnc DVD Author (TDA) will
include their frame accurate editor in 2005 and has always
been a much better choice than MyDVD.
www.pegasys-inc.com

Luck;
Ken

 

[george]

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Ken Maltby wrote:

>
> You might reconsider the DVD Recorder approach, just use a DVD-RW disk and
> you can bring that over to your PC for editing and authoring a new DVD-R This
> way you
> can basically record your VHS tape unattended, without tying up a computer.
> Now a days, the two hour real-time capture, is the most time consuming phase
> of the VHS
> conversion process. With the cost of a refurbished DVD Recorder approaching
> $150 this may be a less expensive approach also.
>
> Luck;
> Ken
>
> P.S. There are a number of good Hardware Direct to DVD Compliant MPEG
> approaches for the PC, and frame accurate MPEG editors like VideoReDo.
>

I second this advice. When I'm in a hurry I use a DVD recorder with r/w disk
to record the VHS. Then pop it in computer to edit out stuff I don't want with
Nero, without having to re-code. Process goes very fast as there is little to no
re-coding done depending if you use straight cuts or fades. Bought my combo
Sansui VHS/DVD recorder on ebay for $145 and Nero on internet for $10. Now I
use my computer with Premiere software for only the more complicated stuff that
requires more processing and effects.

George

 

[gareth]

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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:26:50 -0600, "Steve King"
<steve@REMOVETHISSPAMBLOCKsteveking.net> wrote:

>I own an ADVC 100 from Canopus. I give it four stars. Plug it into a
>fire-wire port on your computer. Plug any video source into either the SVHS
>or Composite jacks on the ADVC100. Plug in the audio left and right from
>the video source into the audio in jacks on the ADVC100. Launch your
>capture program of choice.

Useful to know. What is your capture programme of choice, Steve?

 

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"Gareth" <ihatespam@yahooo.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:26:50 -0600, "Steve King"
> <steve@REMOVETHISSPAMBLOCKsteveking.net> wrote:
>
>>I own an ADVC 100 from Canopus. I give it four stars. Plug it into a
>>fire-wire port on your computer. Plug any video source into either the
>>SVHS
>>or Composite jacks on the ADVC100. Plug in the audio left and right from
>>the video source into the audio in jacks on the ADVC100. Launch your
>>capture program of choice.
>
> Useful to know. What is your capture programme of choice, Steve?

I use Vegas 5.0 on PC at my place primarily for non-pro work and pro and
personal DVD Authoring, and I have also used the ADVC100 to digitize from
BetaMax, BetaSP, High-Eight and 3/4 inch at my editor's suite, where he uses
Final Cut Pro.

Steve King

 

[gareth]

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On 12 Nov 2004 08:26:20 GMT, Leonid Makarovsky <venom@cs.bu.edu> wrote:

>
>I think this is what you need:
>
>http://www.canopus.us/US/products/MPEGPRO_EMR/pt_MPEGPRO_EMR.asp

Waaaay out of my price range, unfortunately.

 

[Guest]

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I too prefer to capture video with a software like VirtualDub, edit it
with a suitable software and would like to encode and author my DVDs
with TMPEG's DVD Encoder and DVD Author software respectively. But
which user-friendly software would be suitable for editing the AVI
format files saved with VirtualDub? My experience with VirtualDub when
I used it for capturing for VCDs was that if the capture file was
encoded with any codec like DivX, when it was clipped with VirtualDub
and saved, VirtualDub converted it to AVI format without any encoding
and it became huge in size when saved after editing. But VirtualDub
had a file size imitation of 1 GB (not very sure). That takes care of
just a few minutes of recording.
What I am trying to do is to get, say 6 episodes - each of 30 minutes
- of a
scientific or technical serial - episodes from Discovery or Animal
Planet
channel, clip the commercials out, leaving a net video of roughly
20-25
minutes per episode and then burn a 120 minute DVD in a multi-session
format
on DVD+R.
Is there any software suitable for editing the VirtualDub captured
files? Or
should one capture them without any encoding? Does Sonic's Vega
provide any help to edit mpeg-2 files? Which version of Vega is good
and stable for this purpose? I fully agree with comments I read here
about the quality of support provided by Sony and Sonic to customers
but unless a suitable solution for editing mpeg files is found by
talking to correspondents who have found solutions, I do not see any
way to make a DVD on my pwn.

I would appreciate if anyone would put forward some concrete
solutions.

P. Jayant

 

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"jayant" <pjayant@sancharnet.in> wrote in message
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>I too prefer to capture video with a software like VirtualDub, edit it
> with a suitable software and would like to encode and author my DVDs
> with TMPEG's DVD Encoder and DVD Author software respectively. But
> which user-friendly software would be suitable for editing the AVI
> format files saved with VirtualDub? My experience with VirtualDub when
> I used it for capturing for VCDs was that if the capture file was
> encoded with any codec like DivX, when it was clipped with VirtualDub
> and saved, VirtualDub converted it to AVI format without any encoding
> and it became huge in size when saved after editing. But VirtualDub
> had a file size imitation of 1 GB (not very sure). That takes care of
> just a few minutes of recording.
> What I am trying to do is to get, say 6 episodes - each of 30 minutes
> - of a
> scientific or technical serial - episodes from Discovery or Animal
> Planet
> channel, clip the commercials out, leaving a net video of roughly
> 20-25
> minutes per episode and then burn a 120 minute DVD in a multi-session
> format
> on DVD+R.
> Is there any software suitable for editing the VirtualDub captured
> files? Or
> should one capture them without any encoding? Does Sonic's Vega
> provide any help to edit mpeg-2 files? Which version of Vega is good
> and stable for this purpose? I fully agree with comments I read here
> about the quality of support provided by Sony and Sonic to customers
> but unless a suitable solution for editing mpeg files is found by
> talking to correspondents who have found solutions, I do not see any
> way to make a DVD on my pwn.
>
> I would appreciate if anyone would put forward some concrete
> solutions.
>
> P. Jayant

As far as I know VirtualDub, even VirtualDubMod only captures
using codec that use an AVI wrapper. So what MPEG2 editing
has to do with your questions, escapes me.

If you have or want to edit MPEG2 try VideoReDo. Use it on
your MPEG or VOB files prior to TDA, and you can just skip
the chapter cut edit step, and go directly to creating menus.
www.VideoReDo.com

Luck;
Ken