video tech stuff

[E F]

It's not all that complicated to do.  Here's the short of it:

Go to   http://www.vcdhelper.com/   here you will find a wealth of faqs and
advice as well as links to some excellent free software for doing what you
are looking to do.

I have been transfering some home video stuff to VCD.  What I use is the
Hauppauge WinTV PCI card for capture, which I got on E-bay for $23 plus
shipping.  The capture software I use is Virtual Dub which is free.  This
save out as an AVI file which I then convert to MPEG with TMPGenc which is
also free.
A note on the AVI side; download the Huffy compression codec.  The AVI takes
up a lot of space and this codec compresses nicely and with virtually no
loss.

The editing can be a little doggier than the capturing and MPEGing.  Virtual
Dub is supposed to do this very well, but Ihave never had the patience to
learn it.  Instead I bought MGI Video Wave (under $100) to do that stuff.
Ulead Video Studio 4.0 works well too, and is probably a better editor.  I
think it's in the same price as the MGI.

Enjoy!

  --Eric


----- Original Message -----
From: "M Holmes" <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: video tech stuff


> I was planning to get the space ritual clips from "When Rock Ruled the
> World" into a computer file for later messing about in a video editor
> programme.
>
> I know next to nothing about all this and would appreciate a quick
> primer from those (Paul?) who know this stuff.
>
> So what's the best way to get from a VHS recording of a PAL programme
> into a computer file for later editing and matching to music?
>
> I know there's stuff like MPEG, BMP and AVI files, so what are these?
There
> was also some computer video format before DVD. The Hawkwind Black Sword
> video was put out on this on a CD. What was that?
>
> The recording proggie also has stuff about frame rates etc. What's the
> best choices for these? Is TV 24 frames per second or something?
>
> Any help appreciated. What I'd hope to do is to use the Silver Machine
> and Brainstorm from the Brian Matthews disc and link the music to the
> ToTP video clips and also Top ten Rock and WRRtW.
>
> Ta in advance
>
> FoFP
>