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Supreme Being
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I would love to tape a portion of my old fav Gummi Bears movie called "The Magnificient Seven Gummis" where they fight the dragon.
Legends Never Die!!
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Supreme Being
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by using binary code???
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Roughy was just making a joke.  Actually, I think the binary he posted was ASCII for "Stomp me!"
Well, I keep trying to find other ways of digitizing, but the way that works best for me is to use a FireWire digital video camera. I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card, so that has a FireWire (IEEE-1394) port that I can use. I have a Sony Digital8 camcorder...don't know the model number offhand. But the important thing is that I can feed it analog video and have it digitize it and spew it out the 1394 port. I have to record raw video and recompress it, but it's worked better than both of the cheapo solutions I've tried (Adaptec VideoOh! crap, and a TDK brand USB 2 digitizer). -------------------------------
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| Posted 7/24/2004 11:58 AM |
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Supreme Being
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thank you. Ill try it when I have more money for sure
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| Posted 12/30/2004 1:16 AM |
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I know what you mean about those Video OH and other retail crap devices, thats why I invested in my little video/dvd stuidio of hardware, you get what you pay for seems to ring true everytime especially when dealing with VHS to DVD/Digital I use one of 2 JVC SVHS and feed it through with the TBC (Time base corrector on) to a standalone Time Base Corrector and then that into a BVP-4 processor (adjustments to color, black, lines) and finally into a JVC DVD Recorder which records in MPG2 DVD video in real time no need for the large RAW file size or specs that Firewire video usually brings (though I can do that as well going into my Mac and using Final Cut Pro) , I opt for the DVD recorder because I find its easier to edit on the Mac and PC then by doing firewire and having the raw video to play with I hope they enhance firewire even more because I would love to be able to use my firewire hard drives to cap digital video from my vacations and edit them but when you are talking about hours upon hours the raw video from firewire can get quite large Digital Camcorders do have their place though especially when transferring 16mm or 8mm to DVD, only because some transfer houses wont accept cartoons, its a shame but you can get a decent copy by playing the 16mm onto a white screen and recording it and then putting it through Virtualdub on the PC and running a deflicker filter, only firewire can keep up with that kind of transfer By the way if you just wanted that set of episodes I can send it your way on a DVD for free, I have all the Gummi Bears episodes from Toon Disney on DVD's and dont mind at all 
markatisu, member since 12/04
Hobbies: Video Restoration and Cartoon Watching
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Hmmm....(Tries to think how he captures video).
Well first of all if you don't already have one, you're going to need a video capture device. I've always found an internal one (one that goes inside your computer) usually works better than the USB solutions. As others have said, the VideOh! devices aren't that great - the quality isn't that high.
First of all though if you don't have a capture card there's 4 questions to think about:
* How often will I use it?
* How much can I afford
* What quality do I want?
* Will I need extra software?
These 4 things are going to limit your choice of a video capture device. It really does depend on what you want to do though. At the bottom end of the market there are the simple BT8x8 PCI card based devices - they work although they aren't really meant for serious video capture. In the middle you have some of the ATI video cards which work relatively well but seem to "top out" at anything much more than 320x200 or 320x256. And at the higher end of the scale you have the matrox range of cards - some of these can be quite expensive but they give the best results.
Right now I am using a Matrox G400TV in my system which gives good performance (full PAL 25fps video capture at full resolution without any frame dropping). Only the matrox (and a few other cards) can do this because they have special hardware on the card to perform the video capture; cheaper cards like the ATI and BT8x8 cards have no special chip so your PC and software will have to do all the work (and you need a fast PC to do this).
You'll also want a good quality sound card too if you don't have one. The best ones I find are usually the soundblaster cards; right now I have an old soundblaster live in my PC which has been doing sterling duty for 2 maybe 3 years now(!). The sound quality will not be so good if you decide to go with "el-cheapo" cards or even some on-board audio chips - your mileage may vary. Also some old+cheap PCI/AGP video cards can mess up the audio capture too.
Finally then there's the software. If you are using windows then you may need some video editing software (unfortunatly, as I don't use windows any more I only know of virtualdub right now) but most cards seem to come at least with some basic video software. The bundled software is seldom any good though so if you are planning on doing more it might be best to fork out for some better software. Or...
Use linux! Yep, I know it might not be the first OS everyone thinks of to do with video capture and editing but it's entirely possible to do high quality video capture in linux now. Some of it can be quite tricky as some of the tools are command line (i.e. you type the commands in) but what there is works well. Right now on an older system (which also has an ancient bt8x8 card in it, bought long before the G400TV) I'm using linux and I also use a program called "mencoder" part of a linux program called "mplayer" to capture the video. I get a reasonable quality too without any framedropping. There are now some GUI based video editors coming along for linux too (eg avidemux, lives, Kino (DV editor)). There is even a commercial app (mainactor) and a high-end and free video editor (but it's not easy to use, and its requirements are well above most home PCs!) cinelerra.
Finally one other thing -- if you are going to video capture your video(s) make sure you use a non propietary video format. Should you want to show your video to someone else if you use a propietary format it might mean they cannot play it or in the future whatever software comapny made that file format they might decide to stop playing it. Basically it means avoiding stuff such as WMV and even MOV and using MPEG1/2/4 or DiVX. .
Hope it all goes well!
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