[Rick Hughes]

John … I’ll pull a post together and post it later today as a new thread .. I’ll use title “VHS digitization and clean up” so you can see when it lands.

[Rick Hughes]

John .. that was where it started .. I digitized all the VHS tapes earlier in the year, including my own wedding tape …… amazing how many people in the tapes are no more.
I had SVHS so at least has a reasonable starting point …… but quality so bad to what you can get off a phone nowadays.

Glad I did the VHS conversion as they would only continue to degrade.

I managed to get some very impressive VHS conversion filters for use with AVIsynth & Virtual Dub ….. did great noise reduction, corrected sync slip etc.
Thousands of line of code written by some very clever people all available for free. 🙂

Although AVIsysnth & Virtual dub are not exactly intuitive to use, steep learning curve.

[Rick Hughes]

Wayne … glad you comment prompted me to buy PSG, it really made it so easy, very worthwhile investment.

I also purchased some professional scanning software ‘Vuescan‘ made the use of a Dimage ScanDualIV 35mm slide (and negative) scanner, the manufacturer (Minolta) dropped out of photography business in 2006 … so no scanner software for W7 (or even W2k.
Vuescan allowed the excellent hardware & optics to continue to be used.

Decided I’m going to digitise a lot of my ‘colour’ prints from the past … create a few more Discs

[Rick Hughes]

Just to close on this …….. as a couple of points may help another ‘beginner’ like myself.

There was a lot of discussion that I could not create a DVD disc from a Blu_Ray due to different aspect ratios .. and that I would need to reset pan/crop and re-render.
In practise I did not have to do any of that.

After the Blu_Ray project was sent to DVDA … and BRD disc created (1920 x 1080)
All I did was go into the DVDA options and go into File>Properties and change disc type to DVD
Then just run make disk wizard again … and it all worked fine.
No issues at all with Aspect Ration ……. it plays perfectly, no letter boxing or cropping.

Must assume that DVDA is taking care of all that needs to be taken care of … certainly no need to go back into Vegas and make changes to timeline.

(I did did split the project in DVA as it was too big to fit on a single 8.5GB DVD)

The final sequence used was:
My original scanned stills were adjusted & tweaked in Lightoom and exported at 2 x vert resolution … so typically 3192 x 2160
They were dropped into PSG and after all transitions etc. ,, created an mpg video output file of 1920×1080
This went into Vegas and once audio & video additions & adjustments gave me an M2V output file of 1920 x 1080
This went into DVDA and that ultimately created a BRD compliant set of files with M2ts video at 1920 x 1080
After creation of BRD
I then went into DVDA changed to DVD and it created VOB MPEG DVD files at 720×576

So project now completed … and it was done and presented to my parents as a Xmas presents .. they were immensely pleased with results, especially as it spanned 1958-1976 … both of my parents were able to see their parents on screen for the first time.
As you can imagine many of people in the slides have been dead for many decades – the last time the slides were ‘projected’ was in mid 70’s …….. my parents were very pleased.

Now getting lots of requests or copies from the family 🙁

Thanks to all.

[Rick Hughes]

Didn’t work.
I did a de-install and re-install and it is now OK …. must have become screwed up

[Rick Hughes]

Thanks for explanation.
All helps my understanding.

[Rick Hughes]

It won’t accept m2V so can’t resize anyway.

I have been trying test resizing and at no time do I get black bars … all come out happily as 16:9 aspect ratio.

Test 1 … Blu-ray project render as Bluray 1920 x 1080 … aspect ratio 16:9
Then to get DVD ver simply from same project (no change at all to anything on timeline) did Render as DVD Widescreen again aspect ratio defaults to 16:9 ….. render looks exactly the same ..(apart from quality drop) no black bars no loss of image.

Test 2 at DVDA created Blu-ray disc from Blu-ray project ….. then just simply changed disc type to DVD and created DVD disc … is did all necessary conversion and again video is the same no black bars.

The input media file is 16:9 the DVD output is 16:9 the Blu_ray output is 16:9

So no need to match aspect ration .. it is all 16:9

All the concern over DVD to Blu_ray and round and square pixels seems irrelevant … it just works. Perhaps its is as media input files are 16:9

I can switch between DVD and Blu-Ray without any action at all on time line ……… perhaps Movie Studio just does what is necessary …. but whether Blu_ray or DVD end images are same shape with no loss, which is where I needed it to be.
Perhaps I have some auto convert setting or similar … but it works.

Pity about being unable to take the M2V files back in though.

[Rick Hughes]

Agree and ‘my copy’ is Blu-ray for my player & TV …. with uncompressed PCM audio

Just that the ‘family’ members only have DVD players … they get DVD with AC3 audio

[Rick Hughes]

A thought – as the above does not seem to work … I have a possible far simpler option ………

Tried it and its seems to work – please tell me if I’m going wrong.

There are about 30 individual Movie Studio BluRay projects. Instead of changing any of them … I went into the DVDA project … and changed project properties to DVD PAL 720 x 576
Rest at default and it seems happy creating a DVD.

As the quality will suffer – I’ll actually create 2 separate DVD’s .. easy to do the way menus were set up.

Is there anything wrong with this approach ?

[Rick Hughes]

The output file of PSG is MPEG so as Max rate for a DVD could be 9,800kbp then I should set to 19,600kb ?