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Ken Maltby
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Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:44 am Post subject:
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"Bill MacLean" <forget_it_spammers@x.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi Ken,
The DVD that has the three directories is the one I made with Sonic Record
Now. I just started a project, dragged in the MPEG that I had made with
Video Redo, and about 35 minutes later got the DVD.
VideoRedo has something in Tool|Options|Chapter Marks that may help me.
There is a checkbox for making a chapter mark at each Cut Point. I cut
each play into a separate scene, so would this put in the marks I want?
As you can see I am confused by Chapter Marks. Are they embedded in the
MPEG (as the option in VideoRedo seems to suggest), or are the result of
Authoring a DVD with certain options?
Thanks,
Mac
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As I said I can't help with the Sonic MyDVD "Authoring".
The chapter marking in VideoReDo, as I understand this new
feature, creates a text file that defines the chapter points based
on the edits that you make. This text file can be used by some
Authoring programs like TDA, and maybe DVDLab, to locate
chapter points.
In TDA, by default, a chapter point is automatically placed at
the start of any clip.
Luck;
Ken
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Bill MacLean
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Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:40 am Post subject:
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Hi Ken,
Here is a story that you might like:
I put in a new graphics card and after that I couldn't get Sonic Record Now
to author a DVD. I tried uninstalling the drivers, and all sorts of other
stuff. I had to get the football film done, so late Sunday night I
downlloaded a trial version of TMPGEnc.
Guess what? TMPGEnc worked without a hitch, and it wrote the DVD much
faster.
I don't know much about the features of TMPGEnc, but it seems great.
One thing I would like to do: I want to have a title screen with a photo
behind it, and a short music clip that loops. Easy to do in RecordNow, but
I don't know how to do it in TMPGEnc. Can you help on that front?
Thanks,
Mac
P.S. I should have listened to you on the DVD Authoring side sooner! |
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Bill MacLean
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Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:13 am Post subject:
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Last week, Sonic Record Now stopped working. I downloaded a trial of
TMPGenc and was pleased with how fast it was. I was thinking of buying it.
However, this week, TEMPGenc was very slow.
I had a 52 minute DVD that I ripped to my HD. Did some very moderate
editing with VideoRedo and saved as an MPEG.
It created a project with TMPGenc that was very simple, just added the MPEG
and put a title on the main menu. It took TMPGenc a little over an hour to
write the project to a directory. I burned copies to an 8x DVD-R disk.
Each disk took a little over 20 minutes to burn.
This seems inordinatelyh slow to me. Do I have unrealistic expectations?
I'm running XP home on a machine with an AMD 3400+ processor, 7200rpm hard
drive, and one gig of RAM. Not a blazing machine, but I expected better
than the performance i am getting
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mac
"Bill MacLean" <forget_it_spammers@x.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi,
I tape our high school games for our coaches using my analog recorder.
The
offensive and defensive coach both want a DVD, so I use S-video cable to
dub
to DVD recorder on a DVD + RW disk (not using my computer).
I can't get the SONIC record now softwar that came with my HP computer to
copy the resulting disk.
I don't mind doing the analog transfer once, but I would like to be able
to
copy the disk at will thereafter without doing the realtime dub.
What is some cheap software that will do what I need. By the way, I
don't
ahve a particularly powerful computer. AMD 3400+ chip with 1GB Ram. I
have
some crappy shared video card (Windows says SiS 760 Mirage 2 that is using
128MB of internal RAM.
Thanks,
Mac
P.S. How much for the following:
1. Capture straight to my computer from the Camcorder
2. Have a button (maybe spacebar) that will instantly pause/restart
recording. This way I could cut out all the huddles, chain moves, etc
3. (This would be really cool) Have a button or two on my keyboard that
would direct the capture to one of two files. The defense coach only
wants defensive plays, offensive coach only wants offense. I would like
for two recording files to be open at once, but the stream would only be
going to one of the files depending on which button I push.
4. This has to be pretty clear. When I play the DVD on my TV w ith an
external DVD player. WHen I play it on my computer, it is very grainy.
Is this a function of the crappy video card, or something else?
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Bill MacLean
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Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:30 am Post subject:
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Just in case this info might be interesting to others: Something was
whacked with my computer (who knows what). I noticed my MPEGs were playing
very choppily in VideoRedo.
I restored to a check point from a few weeks ago, and now the same DVD
burned in 9 minutes instead of 20. I haven't yet tried any authoring.
Thanks,
Mac
P.S. I would still like to know what people think is a realistic speed. If
the finished DVD is 52 minutes, and I am writing at 8x, I would expect the
burn time to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 minutes or less. Is that
unrealistic?
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Bill MacLean
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:21 am Post subject:
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Hi Ken,
Can you give me a quick explanation of de-interlacing? One of our coaches
watches the game films on his laptop, and the video is pretty bad looking
compared to a regular TV.
I thought this problem was related to high computer monitor resolutions vs
low Video resolutions. However, someone else said the real issue is
interlacing. Is interlacing the culprit for the bad looking video on a
computer screen? If so, is there an easy way for me to make a "computer
friendly" version of the game film?
Thanks,
Mac |
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