146 footage

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 30 Jun 2006, 00:35

Heres a minute long extract from a 1990 Air UK promotional video. I have been trying out my video capture device and by the time I recorded 8 mins of this tonight, I had actually managed to get a good picture, but no sound

Now fixed the sound, but I edited this down to 1 min of silent footage ~4mb

http://www.shockcone.co.uk/forums/airuk146.wmv

Post by **Garry Russell** » 30 Jun 2006, 00:38

Still OK Toby without sound.

It does say silent partner at the end :roll:

Thanks for that

Garry

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 30 Jun 2006, 02:34

good job mate
are ya happy with the device you bought?

which one did you buy?
ATB
Joe

Reheat · Post by **Reheat** » 30 Jun 2006, 07:52

Cracking stuff Toby!!

Thank you for sharing that with us!

Alex

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 30 Jun 2006, 10:19

Joe,

I got the Belkin USB 2.0 device eventually. I had a fair few probs but none were the fault of belkin. First off I had to make sure the video program (Ulead VideoStudio) was set up for PAL, not NTSC and I kept getting messages that I didnt have any suitable Hi-Speed USB ports and I realised that they were configured only as USB V1.1 in my BIOS. Now it runs fine and I can begin the task of transfering my VHS collection to DVD! I recorded the first 1 min 47 of "Wooden Wonders to Whisper Jets" as a AVI and managed to use up a whopping 2.1gb of HDD

I think I'll have to find a suitable compromise format

Toby

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 30 Jun 2006, 11:50

Toby

You might want to consider either Divx or MPEG2 formats.

Depends on the final purpose: MPEG2 is the DVD format, Divx is a compressed AVI format although some DVD players play these files.

If the files will just stay on the PC, Divx might be best (http://www.divx.com/). There is an open source encoder (http://www.divx.com/divx/drdivx/) which might be worth trying - can't remember how many options there were to play with. if any.

If you want to go the MPEG2 route, does Ulead VideoStudio have that option?

But whichever expect to see the PC tied up for hours crunching down the video - I have a PC dedicated to just that.

Ian

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 30 Jun 2006, 12:21

Hi Ian,

Yes, Ulead VS has MPEG-2 and also a PAL-DVD format which doesnt seem to differ too markedly from the MPEG-2 format, so I think I'll go for one of those.

On the other side of things, I am running Nero 6 Ultra and have a DVD+-R/RW drive. I plumped for DVD+R disks seeing as thats the standard labelled on the front of the drive (though the spec says it does both types). When I go to create a new DVD Video, it automatically puts two folders on the compilation, "Audio_TS" and "Video_TS". What should go in where?

regards

Toby

Charlie Bravo · Post by **Charlie Bravo** » 30 Jun 2006, 18:51

I wouldn't have bought a Belkin device. Everything I've used by Belkin gives me problems.
Should have gone for the Pinnacle device I said about in the first thread.

I think I know the Belkin device you've purchased. Is it this?

If so you should have spent the extra Â£9 :think:

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 30 Jun 2006, 19:07

It is indeed. I was buying from dabs as its done through a company account with them, but out of four products that have customer reviews on there, all the Pinnacle ones get slated and the Belkin was the only one to get a good review. I have now got the Belkin device working nicely so thats not really a problem (and to be honest the probs I had were not of its making), I'm just trying to figure out how to dump the MPEG onto the DVD in a way in which I will be able to play it on my regular (non-computer) DVD player.

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 30 Jun 2006, 20:54

Toby,

Should be sorted by the software during DVD creation.

But anyway it all goes on the Video folder and the Audio one is left empty.

Filenames are VIDEO.IFO and VTS_01.IFO and some *.BUP and *.VOB files - how many depends on how full the DVD is since the VOB files are 1Gb each.

Ian