On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:44:00PM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Just curious: what is the basic workflow for such a conversion. Where
are special hardware gadgets and special skills involved. Is there a
no-frills mode that requires significantly less pain? Is this something
you can outline? Otherwise, don't knock yourself out. :-)
It depends drastically on the kind of quality you are expecting. Two
possible workflows could be:
- Run Toast Titanium.
- Connect the VCR to a NTSC->firewire adaptor.
- press "record" on toast, and "play" on the VCR.
- When it's done, let it burn a DVD.
Or.
- Run Final Cut Pro.
- "Capture" the video, while playing the VCR.
- Spend a bounded amount of time editing the video to your liking.
(including color correction, since VCRs have terrible color
reproduction).
- Insert chapter markers to make the movie more pleasant to navigate.
- Run DVD Studio Pro
- Design menus appropriate to the content.
- Reference the video from Final Cut Pro.
- Render the DVD image.
- Test the rendered image. Lather, rinse, repeat.
- Burn a DVD.
Numerous variants in between. I've done both of the workflows I've listed
here. The first takes almost no skill, and only needs some kind of
hardware to digitize the video. You will get fairly poor results, but they
may be what you want.
David
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