Options for editing VHS movies on Lombard?

2002-06-13 Thread Michael J. Granado

When in school, I had videos recorded of my lab classes. Of course
they were done in VHS format. There are about 4 tapes, but the
information is not organized. I would like to basically edit the
clips and then put them on a CD. I don't have a DVD recorder so that
option is out. What options do I have? What equipment / software do I
need? I have a Powerbook Lombard with a firewire card. A 20 GB
internal hard drive and a 20 GB expansion bay drive. Currently with
Mac OS 9.2.2. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Mike

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Re: Options for editing VHS movies on Lombard?

2002-06-13 Thread Remy Davison

When in school, I had videos recorded of my lab classes. Of course
they were done in VHS format. There are about 4 tapes, but the
information is not organized. I would like to basically edit the
clips and then put them on a CD. I don't have a DVD recorder so that
option is out. What options do I have? What equipment / software do I
need? I have a Powerbook Lombard with a firewire card. A 20 GB
internal hard drive and a 20 GB expansion bay drive. Currently with
Mac OS 9.2.2. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
I use an iRez Capsure PCMCIA card. These are no longer available new, but 
plenty are on eBay. New, you could use iRez's Critter USBAV. I prefer the 
Capsure PC card as it generally offers better throughput and performance 
to USB input.

Capsure is bundled with iRez ReelEyes (as are most iRez products) which 
does a decent capturing job at full frame rates. I get 16-bit color @ 
720x576, or 24-bit at lower resolutions using MJPEG-B compression. The 
Lombard is fast enough to capture at 25fps PAL or 30fps NTSC. 

You need around 3.8GB for one hour of footage at this rate. You can use 
ReelEyes (quite a nice cut  paste editor) or QT Pro to edit footage into 
the order you want it (ReelEyes can even edit MPEG, which QT can't). 

Once captured, you can export the material to a Toast VideoCD a number of 
ways: with the Toast export in QT; with Cleaner ($$$, but highest 
quality; it's what I use); or any other QT-capable video app. ReelEyes 
can also export to Toast VCD. A tip a QT pro gave me was to make QT's 
player window as large as possible before exporting to VCD. VCD is MPEG-1 
format, which is lossy, but adequate. It means you can fit a full 74 or 
80 minutes' worth of material on a single CD. 

The long process is converting to VCD. An hour or so of footage will take 
17 hours to encode on a 233MHz G3, and a 200MHz 604e is the minimum. A G4 
will take about 10 hours, give or take, depending on speed. Of course, 
VHS is VHS, so don't expect DV quality. I get acceptable quality from VHS 
and Betamax footage though.

I wrote a longer version of this tutorial here:
http://www.insanely-great.com/features/010503.html

Cheers,

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Re: Options for editing VHS movies on Lombard?

2002-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin

On 13/06/02 09:15, Remy Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip!]
 The long process is converting to VCD. An hour or so of footage will take
 17 hours to encode on a 233MHz G3, and a 200MHz 604e is the minimum. A G4
 will take about 10 hours, give or take, depending on speed. Of course,
 VHS is VHS, so don't expect DV quality. I get acceptable quality from VHS
 and Betamax footage though.
[snip!]

Wow! 17 hours on a 233 MHz G3, 10 hours on a G4? Wow! You ought to have a
second computer to do something like that, or is the computer responsive
enough that you can still work with it while it's doing its encoding?

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Re: Options for editing VHS movies on Lombard?

2002-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin

On 13/06/02 09:15, Remy Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip!]
 Capsure is bundled with iRez ReelEyes (as are most iRez products) which
 does a decent capturing job at full frame rates. I get 16-bit color @
 720x576, or 24-bit at lower resolutions using MJPEG-B compression. The
 Lombard is fast enough to capture at 25fps PAL or 30fps NTSC.
[snip!]

Remy,

I was playing yesterday evening with the CapSure with iRez. AFAIR, the
highest resolution I could have was 640 x 480. That was on OS 9.2.2. How do
you get 720 x 576?

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Re: Options for editing VHS movies on Lombard?

2002-06-13 Thread Remy Davison

Wow! 17 hours on a 233 MHz G3, 10 hours on a G4? Wow! You ought to have a
second computer to do something like that, or is the computer responsive
enough that you can still work with it while it's doing its encoding?
Laurent,

I do use a 2nd Mac. The Wallstreet's assigned that duty. The HD just goes 
to sleep and so does the screen. The CPU and the FW hard drive do all the 
work. Stays pretty cool.

You can use the 'Book, but all that does is grind the encode to a halt. I 
haven't updated Cleaner to run it on X on the WS yet, but it's 
conceivable its multitasking would make it a possibility, although the 
CPU would be devoting fewer cycles to the encode. I'd rather let it sit. 

For cheap people, I usually get them a 604e 7300 or 8600 or something, 
and it becomes the standalone MPEG cruncher and VCD burner. If it's got a 
G3 card, good, all the better. It's cheaper than the $US3,000 or 
something you need for a real-time MPEG-1 hardware encoder. 

Of course, you could just by a new iMac, but I'm not convinced of the 
economics of burning VHS to DVD-R. DV, yes. Anyway, I've made about 200 
or so VCDs, so not bad. Archive my tapes (the odd documentary I want to 
preserve on CD etc.). Of course, you can easily distribute copies (not 
piratically, of course) to your friends via CD that they can play on 
their DVD players. Someone wanted to see this Reagan doco the other day. 
I hate lending out tapes, 'cos you never get 'em back, so make a VCD and 
who cares? Once you have your master CD, Toast can copy the contents 
(even if burned as session) as a disc image and burn a new VCD. So you 
don't need to retain a hard disk copy of the original 700MB MPEG, for 
example.

Of course, a gold/silver, good-quality CD is recommended for your master. 
Two of them if it's really precious.

I was playing yesterday evening with the CapSure with iRez. AFAIR, the
highest resolution I could have was 640 x 480. That was on OS 9.2.2. How 
do
you get 720 x 576?

ReelEyes only does 640x480. I use FCP for bigger (well, I use it for most 
things, actually). It just captures better for some reason (why it costs 
so much, I guess). If I go bigger than 720, the Lombard starts dropping 
frames, although I haven't tried lower bit depths (there's enough 
graininess in VHS as it is). Anyway, MPEG-1 takes it back to 320x240 and 
then I watch the VCD @ 1024x768 anyhow.

To reierate, QT and M-Pack MPEG-1 encoding were, IMHO, crap. Especally 
MPack. Good thing they don't sell it anymore. 

Cheers,

RD



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Re: Stalling HD in Wallstreet

2002-06-13 Thread Kerney, Stephen A

After the HD had spun up and then stalled, could you tell that it was
still spinning or did it spin down/halt spinning?  In the old days, we had
some HDs that wouldn't start spinning and the problem was supposedly due to
hard drive spindle lubricant coagulation.  Taking the drive out and
rotating it rapidly about the spindle axis (snapping our wrists) sometimes
(temporarily) fixed that problem.  That is probably not what you are
experiencing since your HD did spin up, something ours failed to do (and
we've not seen this problem at work in years).  1 1/2 cents

Steve K. 

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Subject: Stalling HD in Wallstreet


Hi all-

I recently had a reoccurrence of a problem I ran into about 9 
mo. ago, and hope you can help. My PB froze the other day, a fairly 
rare occurrence. I restarted it , but the HD spun up, ran for maybe 
5-10 seconds, then just stalled, leaving me with a question-mark disk 
on the screen. I had to pull the plug and pop out the battery to shut 
down. Kept doing this, til I gave it a few hours 'rest'. Now I'm 
backing it up to my G4, before I lose anything. Ive got an IBM 10 gig 
HD which I replaced under warrantee  for the same problem last time, 
but I suspect now that the HD itself isn't the problem. Could it be a 
heat issue? The fan had kicked on, but after I ejected my Capsure 
video card, it ran a few minutes then kicked off. I tried pressing on 
as many connectors and plugs as I could find to make sure they're all 
seated properly, but I don't know yet if that's it. Any ideas?

TIA,
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Re: Options for editing VHS movies

2002-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin

On 13/06/02 13:43, Kathryn Odell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 So you can play a video cd on a dvd player? Do you just send it out from
 iMovie as quicktime for a cd?
 Kate
 
 The best option would be to use some analog to digital bridge, like Dazzle
 Hollywood, to bring the video onto your Lombard. Then, you could be able to
 edit it in iMovie. Finally, using Toast, with a CD-RW, you could write those
 movies as VCDs, that are playable in almost every domestic DVD player, as
 well as in all CD-ROM drive on various computers.

No, you cannot use only iMovie or QuickTime to burn a VideoCD (VCD). Remy
did provide some software that would do it in a previous message. In my
case, I would use Roxio Toast Titanium, which has the ability to burn
VideoCD.

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Re: Options for editing VHS movies

2002-06-13 Thread Kathryn Odell

Thanks for the info. I've been looking for an excuse to upgrade to Toast
Titanium!
Kate
 No, you cannot use only iMovie or QuickTime to burn a VideoCD (VCD). Remy
 did provide some software that would do it in a previous message. In my
 case, I would use Roxio Toast Titanium, which has the ability to burn
 VideoCD.
 
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does my wallstreet 266 have a fan?

2002-06-13 Thread Andrew

I don't even know if my wallstreet had a fan.
It's a 266 Mhz 1998 model.
If it had a fan would I hear it?
Now I'm worrying about whether the fan that I may not have may not be
working...
I definitely need to get out more.

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 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:27:11 -0400
 From: Marty Lindower [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Stalling HD in Wallstreet

 Could it be a
 heat issue? The fan had kicked on, but after I ejected my Capsure
 video card, it ran a few minutes then kicked off.  

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Re: does my wallstreet 266 have a fan?

2002-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin

On 13/06/02 15:04, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I don't even know if my wallstreet had a fan.
 It's a 266 Mhz 1998 model.
 If it had a fan would I hear it?
 Now I'm worrying about whether the fan that I may not have may not be
 working...
 I definitely need to get out more.

Your Wallstreet has definitely a fan. Now, is it working? That's a good
question. It's my understanding that under OS 8 or 9, the fan almost never
runs. Under OS X, that's a different story as some users reported after
using their Wallstreet on a bed, in doing so preventing any ventilation,
that the fan did start and run. But your Wallstreet had definitely one when
it left the manufacture.

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Re: Fussy iBook CD-ROM drive

2002-06-13 Thread Amber Rhea

on 6/13/02 1:52 PM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I actually don't know *what* it was that I did
 that made it come out normally). I'm guessing some internal mechanism must
 be sticking; any ideas? Would something as simple as a shot of WD40 take
 care of it? I certainly don't want to damage any CDs, or the drive itself,
 with all this pushing and pulling.
 
 DO NOT use a lubricant on that drive.  Send it in for repair.

I bought the iBook second hand. I do know that it was originally purchased
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Re: Fussy iBook CD-ROM drive

2002-06-13 Thread John Featherstone

They handle them just like original purchaser. I bought my Wallstreet in 99,
the original buyer had purchased a 3 year warranty, which has just expired.
I sent it in for power supply, pram, and hinges. They treated me right!
They'll ask for the original warranty on your first time in and re-register
it in your name. Apple warranty work is a good experience.
 
 I bought the iBook second hand. I do know that it was originally purchased
 in May 2001. Any idea how Apple handles warranties with second-hand
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Pismo battery loose in battery bay--normal?

2002-06-13 Thread Michael J. Granado

I just purchased a PB G3 Pismo from someone. I really didn't notice
it at the time I was checking out the laptop, but after taking the
laptop home, I discovered the battery is slightly loose in the
battery bay. Now all it does is slightly move side to side (kinda
jiggles). But it is locked in the bay and I don't think it will fall
out.

Now what I want to know is if this is normal? I've owned a Lombard
and a Powerbook 2400c and both of their batteries are not that loose
(actually don't move at all).

Am I just being picky? Are your Pismo batteries snug in their bays?
Is there some reason for me to be concerned? Is the world flat???

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

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