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More info?)
On 5 Dec 2004 08:36:55 -0800, tomloi@hotmail.com (Tom) wrote:
>Is this possible?
Sure is. You want to make something quick and easy (and not 5.1)?
Record onto a standalone DVD recorder. The video will be average, the
sound will be stereo. But you'll be done in the running time of your
disc.
Want to do better? Better get ready for quite a large learning curve,
spending some money, and taking some considerable time.
The best method would resemble something like as follows:
Step One:
- buy a decent LD player (Pioneer 704 and up?)
- buy an AC3-RF demodulator (eBay?)
- buy a decent PC cap card (Philips or Conexant 9- or 10-bit chipset)
- buy a decent sound card (one that doesn't resample AC3 on input)
- download a capture application (VirtualVCR? The best ones are free)
- download VirtualDubMod (free)
- download AviSynth (free)
- download HuffYUV codec (free)
- download BeSweet (free)
- download CCE or TMPGEnc (sorta free)
- buy a big hard drive (NOT free)
Step Two:
- visit doom9.org and/or videohelp.com
- read, read, read
- read a little more
Step Three:
- cap your disc(s): HuffYUV YUY2, 720 x 480, 29.97fps
- you can eliminate rot by getting three individual copies of any
disc, and using AviSynth to average the best two sources for every
pixel in every frame
- cap AC3 audio from demodulator into CoolEdit Pro (now Adobe
Audition). Audacity (free) might also work; not sure
Step Four:
- IVTC (if the source is a movie) with AviSynth
- do other cleanup and filtering with AviSynth (e.g. colour correct,
sharpen, rotoscope, remove dust, etc., etc. -- this can make a
dramatic difference to the final result)
- make the picture anamorphic with AviSynth (optional)
- render video to MPEG-2 with either CCE or TMPGEnc
- render audio to AC-3 (if it isn't AC-3 already) with BeSweet
Step Five:
- author with DVD authoring package of choice (DVDlab is powerful and
cheap).
Step Six:
- phone up all your old friends, and tell them you're still alive
despite your year-long disappearance.