Re: Options for editing VHS movies on Lombard? (revived thread,OT)

Dear Listers, Back in mid June, there was a thread centering around the use of a Lombard for captureing VHS movies, editing them, and putting them on CD. The Lombard does not have a firewire port, but that didn't stop us from discussing various options, including the firewire "bridge" device

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Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Actually, I expect that they come with an adapter like Sony's CDR >cameras do, a full-size plastic doohickey that the little disk clips >into for use in slot loading systems. (and looking at the specs page, >they do) > >Thinking back to my home DVD player,

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makmac wrote: > That's cool! But I wonder what the little 8cm disks will sell for. Plus they > record both sides so you have to flip them over. It looks like you have to > have a spindle loading type DVD player as the tray loading and slot loading > computers can't accept the small size. Actuall

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Bruce Johnson on 6/16/02 4:25 PM wrote: > Actually I just saw a Hitachi DV camera advertised today that records > onto DVD-R, (and RW!) and has analogue inputs to convert VHS tapes (an > advertised feature) to DVD. > > It was being sold for $900, and looks pretty slick. > >

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At 1:52 PM -0400 6/13/02, G-Books wrote: >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 qua

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>Thanks for the info. I've been looking for an excuse to upgrade to Toast >Titanium! >Kate Actually, you can do it in Toast 4.0 (or 3) as well, although you need a separate app to export a Toast-compliant MPEG stream for burning as a VCD. Toast 5 simplifies things. As a fine point of interest,

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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 abil

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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 y

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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, usi

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>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

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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

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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, > VH

Re: Options for editing VHS movies on Lombard?

>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 d

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on 13/06/02 05:17, Michael J. Granado at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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

Options for editing VHS movies on Lombard?

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 h