I am in the process of copying a load of dodgy old VHS video tapes to my PC.It's a long, laborious process involving copying from the VHS to a DVD, then from the DVD to my PC and then splitting the resulting massive mpeg into bite size chunks featuring the bands or music I want to keep and binning the remainder.
So I only want to upload this stuff if people will think it is worthwhile.
I have so far converted a handful to AVIs with the following attributes:
Frame Width: 720
Frame Height: 576
Frame Rate: 25 per sec
The resulting files are about 60M in size for every 4 minutes or so of TV footage. Obviously there is a trade off between quality and size but the bigger the file the longer it takes me to create and upload and the longer it takes you to download.
I'll only be uploading clips that aren't obviously available from YouTube.
As a starter for ten, here is an interview with Robert from Loop taken from SnubTV at some point in the early 90s. It also features the video for 'From Centre To Wave'.
Let me know what you think re quality, size and the rest - AVI or MPEG? Put it on YouTube instead?
Loop - Snub TV - pwd: c4ctusm0uth
11 comments:
Ooh coincidence. I was looking at the social centre's collection of VHS tapes the other day and wondering about how to go about digitising them.
Can I trouble you for what your tech-y setup for this is?
This AVI is audio-only (on a PC, trying to view via QuickTime or Windows Media Player). Is there a specific codec that I need? Excited to see this and I appreciate your time to post it. It would be great to have this available via vimeo.com (far nicer than youtube).
You are a brave man Highlander but I suspect you have lots of goodies on VHS so I for one would of course be interested. I know from experience just what a labourous task converting is.
Anon above - try downloading the latest K-Lite codec pack. You also get Media Player Classic with this and that Media Player plays just about everything (and its free)
@ milgram - wish I still lived in EH then I'd offer to do it for you. But here's how I do it:
Copy the VHS to DVD-RW on my Combo Video-DVD player
Copy the resulting .VRO file to your PC (make sure it's not too big for Windows to copy in one go if that's your operating system)
Rename the .VRO file to a .MPEG file
I then use Windows Movie Maker to split the file up
I publish the sections using the DVD Quality (PAL) setting on Windows Movie Maker
I then convert the resulting .WMV files to .AVI files using Any Video Converter (I set the frame height and width manually and leave the other settings unchanged)
Hope that helps but if you need more detail just let me know.
@ Anonymous - Like Longy says, the K-Lite codec pack should cover all your video viewing needs. Vimeo does look good but I suspect I may fall foul of the usage guidelines. I'll bare it in mind tho.
@ Longy - Ye, long and laborious all right. I clocked your comment about not re-uploading videos and now I can see why ;)
It is indeed Highlander. It takes a man of great patience to do what your doing. And me,well I'm the most impatient person I've ever known!
for media codecs i recommend this:
http://www.cccp-project.net/
Been a long time Loop fan and missed out on the Snub TV feature download! :-(
Just discovered this blog actually. Exciting stuff!
Any chances of a Loop re-upload???
Done anonymous. Have re-uploaded the file to multiupload and updated the link in the post. Enjoy.
Thank you Highlander!!!
Nice one pinkpressthreat, let us know if you post them somewhere.
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