David Brown wrote: > 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. >
Thanks for the nice course summary! I guess it takes a lot of subjective inputs to add the "frills". probably not too easy to automate without a) slave-labor, or b) verrry-expensive very-smart tools. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
