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Posted by Mac Mcginnis on February 7, 2012 at 2:58 am

I’ve tranferred about 2.5 hours of VHS footage onto my PC which my client wants put on DVD. It’s old footage of a band he was in and he wants to have the capability to pull individual songs off the DVD and share on YouTube. Whats the best way to provide him with the files? Can I render each song individually and burn seperately to the DVD? The VHS is pretty poor quality too so I want to use the best render settings for his upload to YouTube. Any advise appreciated.

Thanks, Mac

Nigel O’neill replied 14 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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Stephen Mann
February 7, 2012 at 4:54 am

I see dead formats…..

Oops, wrong movie.

As you observed, VHS is pretty bad to start with. Then you’re going to cram 2.5 hours on a DVD – things will get ugly pretty quick.

A DVD is MPEG. While you can upload MPEG to YouTbe, it isn’t the best format. (On the other hand – you’re starting with VHS, so it’s not a quality hit that most would notice.)

But, you don’t just “pull off” a video from a DVD. Sure you can use markers and play selected chapters from the DVD, but that isn’t a file you can upload to You Tube.

If you want a DVD, then encode MPEG and AC3 using the DVD Architect templates in the “Render As” menu. If you want to upload the individual songs to YouTube, then encode each song into a separate file. (Burn those on a separate DVD as a data disk). I would probably use the Sony AVC encoder. I don’t know which version of Vegas you have, but there is a YouTube template in Version 11.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Steve Rhoden
February 7, 2012 at 5:29 am

Sorry Mac,
Not much you can do to improve those footages.
And its gonna take another quality hit when you
put it on DVD….But still yet, follow the info
Stephen pointed out to you.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956
Mac Mcginnis
February 7, 2012 at 12:59 pm

Thanks Steve & Stephen.

Actually I’d never planned to put the full 2.5 on one DVD. I was going to split that into two seperate ones.

My real question was in regards to the YouTube files. I’m using Vegas Pro 10 and still a little green when it comes to all the bells and whistles it has.

If I understand your recommendation I could select each song, one at a time, render that song using Sony AVC encoder, save in a file, then pull those individual files onto a DVD data disk for the client to load on YouTube as he desires. Correct?
Mark Davidson
February 7, 2012 at 2:18 pm

Would you all recommend any other tricks to be done with old VHS footage of this type other than a quality editing job?

For instance, color correction or noise removal.
Stephen Mann
February 7, 2012 at 2:28 pm

Capture the VHS twice then blend the two. VHS is analog so noise appears differently in the two captures.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Mark Davidson
February 8, 2012 at 2:23 am

Interesting, I was thinking more along the lines of running NeatVideo, but will look into the overlay method in more depth.

Another big improvement gain may be to stabilize the footage. Can anyone think of anything else?
Nigel O’neill
February 9, 2012 at 2:53 am

Stephen

Would the blending be achieved by simply overlaying two tracks and altering the opacity of the top track? If so, what percentage would you recommend?

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

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