From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Mar 07 2009 - 11:03:14 PST
as far as taking films from dvd and making them usable digital stuff
here is a great freeware app
- love it -
mpeg streamclip
some dvd's have security and don't work but most work fine
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On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Beth Capper <email suppressed> wrote:
> Thank you all. Your advice has been very helpful.
>
> Best,
>
> Beth
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Bart Weiss <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> Indeed there is software that can do you and you already have it on your
>> computer
>> ITUNES
>> last year we ran all of the *Dallas VIdeo Festival* off of ITUNES
>> and it worked perfectly
>> for one you have no problem with switching between 16 x9 and 3x4
>> or any of the different hi def tape formates
>> it spits out what you give it
>> it also it is essentially first generation
>> a copy of the file that came out of your editing software
>> we be more pristine than a tape i
>> it is simple and it works
>> but I would defiantly do some tests on your system
>> bart
>>
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Robert Schaller wrote:
>>
>> Does it need to be compiled to tape? Why not digitize it all to QT files,
>> and play them all off a computer? There is software out there that can
>> put
>> together a show order and play the files successively as if they were a
>> single timeline (but I confess I don't know the title at the moment --
>> anyone?), so that then the files all play at whatever resolution you have,
>> either in NTSC or PAL, and nothing ever needs to be converted. You'll
>> just
>> need a portable harddrive to put them all on, and you can play them from a
>> laptop.
>>
>> Seems like a better solution. I agree with Pip that video is needlessly
>> cumbersome, but tape is the worst part. I think the best answer is not to
>> use it if you don't have to.
>>
>>
>> On 3/6/09 2:57 AM, "Pip Chodorov" <email suppressed> wrote:
>>
>> Beth,
>>
>>
>> A lab can do this for you, and it's hard to reply without knowing
>>
>> what equipment you have.
>>
>> The rule of thumb is to start with the highest quality source
>>
>> materials, high quality DV tapes or noncompressed files. Avoid DVDs
>>
>> because they are wickedly compressed with MPEG2. PAL is higher
>>
>> quality than NTSC but the transcoding question will be determined by
>>
>> the format you need for the screening. You can transcode at home in a
>>
>> computer: for example you can digitize the PAL video into Final Cut
>>
>> onto a PAL timeline, then open a new timeline in NTSC and copy it in.
>>
>> Then output that back onto an NTSC camera or deck. The quality will
>>
>> be less good than if you transcode in a postproduction house with
>>
>> hardware converters.
>>
>>
>> So technically, you could create a broadcast quality edit of your
>>
>> whole screening, all the shorts in sequence, in Final Cut and output
>>
>> the whole thing onto one tape.
>>
>>
>> Too bad video is so complicated. You could do the same on film with
>>
>> just scissors and tape!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 21:13 -0600 5/03/09, Beth Capper wrote:
>>
>> I am putting together a screening of shorts and need some tech help.
>>
>> I need to compile all the films onto Mini DV from either QT files or
>>
>> multiple Mini DVs. Some of the Mini DV's are in PAL and some are
>>
>> NTSC... do I need to convert the PAL to NTSC and if so, how do I do
>>
>> this? Also, is it possible to take films from DVD and put them onto
>>
>> Mini DV, and if so, does this greatly diminish the quality?
>>
>>
>>
>> __________________________________________________________________
>>
>> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>>
>>
>>
>> __________________________________________________________________
>> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>> __________________________________________________________________ For
>> info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>>
>>
> __________________________________________________________________ For
> info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>
>
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