Hey all-
I just got a computer that can burn DVDs and have several LD's that I want to transfer to DVD. Can anyone give me a list of the equipment I will need to hook a LD player up as well as the steps involved and anything to be careful about?
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by blunted by community » Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:23 pm
go to the site that made yoiur burner. chances are they have software that will burn to dvd in real time. the hardware you will most likely need is something like the all in wonder card. it has video and audio in. while you play laser disc it burns to dvd.
mydvd has software that does that. check out mydvd 5.0
almost all software works with whatever hardware you got. get the software that best serves what you want to do.
mydvd has software that does that. check out mydvd 5.0
almost all software works with whatever hardware you got. get the software that best serves what you want to do.
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by blunted by community » Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:27 pm
another interesting option is a $19 card that hooks up to the back of comp into hard drive. if you have a digital cam you play the movie to the digital tape in the cam, then use fire wire into that card to dump movie into your hard drive in ms-dv compresion, in avi files.
use adobe premiere to work around the avi files. you can rearange the film any way you want, add commentary, rearange scenes, make intros. cut yourself into the film explaining stuff like the figures in MST2k. then you use adobe mpeg to export your masterpiece, and mydvd will burn it to dvd with menus you can click on!
use adobe premiere to work around the avi files. you can rearange the film any way you want, add commentary, rearange scenes, make intros. cut yourself into the film explaining stuff like the figures in MST2k. then you use adobe mpeg to export your masterpiece, and mydvd will burn it to dvd with menus you can click on!
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by TheMcGuffin » Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:37 pm
That is the method that I use, but only on a mac. I connect my LD player directly into my camera, which is hooked up via firewire to my comp. I then capture using Final Cut Pro. There is cut, move things around, and other audio layers. Then if it is a simple DVD (without an audio commentary) i use a basic DVD creation program iDVD or if i have a complex dvd i make a custom one on DVD Studio Pro and then dvds are a comin... I am sure there are PC equivilents for all of these I am just not sure of them cuz i do all my video work on macs.
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by blunted by community » Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:20 pm
pc works pretty close to the mac. premiere has the scan footage thing you set, then leave and it captures eveything you want. but to just copy dvds all you need is a dvd copy suite. best luck i've had is with freeware called dvd shrink. it allows you to reauthor the dvd in case it's over 2 hrs of programing.
the playing into a digital cam is just if you want to fiddle with it.
dvd shrink with nero ultra is just 2 steps.
the playing into a digital cam is just if you want to fiddle with it.
dvd shrink with nero ultra is just 2 steps.
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by blunted by community » Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:41 pm
flint, let me clarify a few things for you that i wish some one had clarified for me before i spent a bunch of money that i would have to spend again.
to fiddle with images:
don't buy a capture card. buy a digital cam and that will do the same job as the capture card, and it's a camera also. make sure digital cam has s-video in, so you can play your discs into the cam's digital tape. don't spend bucks on cam with fancy built in editing stuff, you don't need that.
get fire wire card. fire wire cam to fire wire card.
get adobe premiere (if pc) or avid. the premiere software will act like a vcr and tv set. it will let you fast forwared through the digital tape so you can exclude anything you don't want it to capture to your hard drive. you fast forward, rewind, let software know what you want, then leave and software performs what you told it to do. with capturing laser disc you would capture 10 minute segments and over lap the cut by a few frames so you can join it inside the editing software. sounds complicated but it's not. after 2 weeks of anguish, stomach aches, and screaming, you get it down.
to simply make copies of laser disc, get software that works with all in wonder card, probably $125. you can hook laser to all in wonder, and play to disc as it burns.
i hope this does not sound confusing, it's not. like all software, after you mess with it for a while you get it. there are forums for the type of software you decide on where you can get answers from other users.
to fiddle with images:
don't buy a capture card. buy a digital cam and that will do the same job as the capture card, and it's a camera also. make sure digital cam has s-video in, so you can play your discs into the cam's digital tape. don't spend bucks on cam with fancy built in editing stuff, you don't need that.
get fire wire card. fire wire cam to fire wire card.
get adobe premiere (if pc) or avid. the premiere software will act like a vcr and tv set. it will let you fast forwared through the digital tape so you can exclude anything you don't want it to capture to your hard drive. you fast forward, rewind, let software know what you want, then leave and software performs what you told it to do. with capturing laser disc you would capture 10 minute segments and over lap the cut by a few frames so you can join it inside the editing software. sounds complicated but it's not. after 2 weeks of anguish, stomach aches, and screaming, you get it down.
to simply make copies of laser disc, get software that works with all in wonder card, probably $125. you can hook laser to all in wonder, and play to disc as it burns.
i hope this does not sound confusing, it's not. like all software, after you mess with it for a while you get it. there are forums for the type of software you decide on where you can get answers from other users.
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