From Comp Video to Internet Ready Video

DanceMentor

DanceMentor

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I just had my first experience going from VHS to web.
I bought one of those DVD Recorder/VHS combos and then copied the VHS onto DVD. Then I explored the DVD on my computer and extracted the files. Then I found a a guy that charged me about $5 per clip to make little movies. He have 4 different versions of each movie (Regular and Hi Res, Flash and AVI). Then I uploaded them to the web.

Has anyone done this sort of thing before?
Also, if it were offered as a service where you mail your video, would you find that helpful?
 
DanceMentor said:
I just had my first experience going from VHS to web.
I bought one of those DVD Recorder/VHS combos and then copied the VHS onto DVD. Then I explored the DVD on my computer and extracted the files. Then I found a a guy that charged me about $5 per clip to make little movies. He have 4 different versions of each movie (Regular and Hi Res, Flash and AVI). Then I uploaded them to the web.

Has anyone done this sort of thing before?
Also, if it were offered as a service where you mail your video, would you find that helpful?
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I do this myself. I posted about this in videos thread, but I bought a gizmo, one end of which hooks up to computer, and the other one hooks up to a VCR or a videocamera, and I can convert analog output and record it in any format I want.
 
Please share the name of this gizmo.

I bought a VCR to DVD unit and it is complete trash. I spent so long trying to nurse it along that I cannot return it. All of the DVDs that come from it simply will not play on my computer. MOST annoying.
 
I have a JVC digital cam corder. I hook up one end to my VHS VCR, and the other via FireWire to my Mac PowerBook G4. I then use the cam corder to digitize the video and dump it on my lap top, where I edit it and make videos and DVDs in iMovie.
 
Laura said:
I have a JVC digital cam corder. I hook up one end to my VHS VCR, and the other via FireWire to my Mac PowerBook G4. I then use the cam corder to digitize the video and dump it on my lap top, where I edit it and make videos and DVDs in iMovie.
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ditto (albeit Sony camcorder instead of JVC and MBP/PowerBok and either iMoive/iDVD or FCP/DVD Studio Pro)
 
It sure is easy and I love it :) Only problem is that my PowerBook is old and slow and really beaten up, I really need to get a new laptop at some point.
 
yeah I replaced my PB with a MBP back in Jan... saw about a 20-60x increase in performence... (unit test suite runing in 5 seconds rather 5 minutes, encoding DVDs about 20 times faster in the pre-processing stage, etc)
 
i can't remember for the life of me what the program is called, but i got a 21 day trial of this program that took DVD files and encoded them into MPGs (it's on my home computer far away from me right now). this in addition to the VHS/DVD recorder we have, and i was able to take old tapes and rip them onto my ipod. end result: comp videos on the go.
 
NielsenE said:
yeah I replaced my PB with a MBP back in Jan... saw about a 20-60x increase in performence... (unit test suite runing in 5 seconds rather 5 minutes, encoding DVDs about 20 times faster in the pre-processing stage, etc)
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Damn. Got to get me one of those then. But first I need to buy a new sofa....
 
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