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digitizing DVDs (of my own work)
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I was unaware that speed was part of the OP’s question.
You guys seem to prefer a digital solution for everything and it’s just not necessary. Hooking up a cable is stupid-proof as well as being reliable.
Regardless of the devotion you all have to keeping MPEG2 local, the difference between an analog input to DV and a Streamclip demux of MPEG2 is not discernible to the casual viewer and, if you’re going back to DVD, you’ve accomplished little.We ran Streamclip on an 8 minute clip from someone’s DVD,built in Premiere on a PC, just last week. For whatever reason, and I don’t care at al what the reason was, more than 20 minutes ticked byand nothing much was going on. Screw that. I put the DVD in a player and captured it in real time. It’s done and we’re moving on.
On a personal note, I ride a recumbent for the same reasons I use Macintosh and play go instead of chess: comfort and uniqueness. I shoot practical fire and water effects instead of trying to simulate them in After Effects because it’s more fun to do it that way. I use a DVD player to ingest DVD material because it works.
bogiesan
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We’re gonna be calling you old Fogiesan from now on…
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[david bogie] “On a personal note, I ride a recumbent for the same reasons I use Macintosh and play go instead of chess: comfort and uniqueness. “
Don’t let anyone give you s**t about riding a recumbent… I have Windcheetah recumbent trike and it’s sublime!
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[david bogie] “You guys seem to prefer a digital solution for everything and it’s just not necessary. Hooking up a cable is stupid-proof as well as being reliable.
Regardless of the devotion you all have to keeping MPEG2 local, the difference between an analog input to DV and a Streamclip demux of MPEG2 is not discernible to the casual viewer and, if you’re going back to DVD, you’ve accomplished little. “Well said. I have to say depending on the length and use of the DVD material we’ll either use MPEG Streamclip or bring it in via a Kona board. Definitely BluRay discs we capture through the Kona as that really looks good coming in that way.
And you’re right about the casual viewer, most folks who come here can’t even see the reverse interlace issue when HD is dropped into an SD timeline….
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[walter biscardi] “And you’re right about the casual viewer, most folks who come here can’t even see the reverse interlace issue when HD is dropped into an SD timeline…. “
Hardly surprising. Have you seen how bad most HD looks on digital cable services? The compression artifacts are horrendous, especially with sports programming.
Every time I walk into a bar and there’s a big plasma TV hanging there with a basketball game on, I cringe – it looks like the Red Lego team vs. the Yellow Lego team.
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[Alan Okey] “Hardly surprising. Have you seen how bad most HD looks on digital cable services? The compression artifacts are horrendous, especially with sports programming. “
Which is precisely why we switched to DirecTV. Here we had Charter Communications which was up to a whopping 15 HD channels when we switched though on any given day only two of those channels actually LOOKED like HD. That is, a nice clean signal with minor artifacts visible.
With DirecTV we have over 100 HD channels and all of them look like they are truly HD. Absolutely worth the money we’re spending on that service. Oh wait, we’re paying $40 LESS per month! 🙂
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