>Wow! 17 hours on a 233 MHz G3, 10 hours on a G4? Wow! You ought to have a >second computer to do something like that, or is the computer responsive >enough that you can still work with it while it's doing its encoding? Laurent,
I do use a 2nd Mac. The Wallstreet's assigned that duty. The HD just goes to sleep and so does the screen. The CPU and the FW hard drive do all the work. Stays pretty cool. You can use the 'Book, but all that does is grind the encode to a halt. I haven't updated Cleaner to run it on X on the WS yet, but it's conceivable its multitasking would make it a possibility, although the CPU would be devoting fewer cycles to the encode. I'd rather let it sit. For cheap people, I usually get them a 604e 7300 or 8600 or something, and it becomes the standalone MPEG cruncher and VCD burner. If it's got a G3 card, good, all the better. It's cheaper than the $US3,000 or something you need for a real-time MPEG-1 hardware encoder. Of course, you could just by a new iMac, but I'm not convinced of the economics of burning VHS to DVD-R. DV, yes. Anyway, I've made about 200 or so VCDs, so not bad. Archive my tapes (the odd documentary I want to preserve on CD etc.). Of course, you can easily distribute copies (not piratically, of course) to your friends via CD that they can play on their DVD players. Someone wanted to see this Reagan doco the other day. I hate lending out tapes, 'cos you never get 'em back, so make a VCD and who cares? Once you have your master CD, Toast can copy the contents (even if burned as session) as a disc image and burn a new VCD. So you don't need to retain a hard disk copy of the original 700MB MPEG, for example. Of course, a gold/silver, good-quality CD is recommended for your master. Two of them if it's really precious. >I was playing yesterday evening with the CapSure with iRez. AFAIR, the highest resolution I could have was 640 x 480. That was on OS 9.2.2. How do >you get 720 x 576? ReelEyes only does 640x480. I use FCP for bigger (well, I use it for most things, actually). It just captures better for some reason (why it costs so much, I guess). If I go bigger than 720, the Lombard starts dropping frames, although I haven't tried lower bit depths (there's enough graininess in VHS as it is). Anyway, MPEG-1 takes it back to 320x240 and then I watch the VCD @ 1024x768 anyhow. To reierate, QT and M-Pack MPEG-1 encoding were, IMHO, crap. Especally MPack. Good thing they don't sell it anymore. Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor/News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac <http://www.insanely-great.com> mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RD's PowerBook page: <http://www.macpowerbook.com> -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
