On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 11:19 AM, Don Wakefield wrote:
I have had only limited and I must say disappointing success at making VCD archives of older VHS tapes. Admittedly I am not using brand new "state of the art" equipment but my 7600 is Sonnet upgraded to 450 Meg G4 generation and I do have a 7200rpm SCSI hard drive. I can't help wondering if everyone is taking as much time to accomplish this conversion?
Perhaps I was foolish, because I believed all the hype I read. It appeared to me that archiving, and in fact even "sweetening up" (with simple editing features in IMovie or similar product) of your old VHS tapes was "FAST and EASY". Admittedly, as far as the easy part, I haven't broken into a sweat, but "FAST" is such an over statement! I took a 7 minute test clip, and by the time Toast had churned it into a VCD burnable format, it took over an hour. The final result when played in my DVD was blurry, jerky, and showed a lot of color banding or bulls eye color ring effects on large gradation areas. It by no way could be described as VHS equal and with the transfer time of over one hour for seven minutes of this quality, how long would 30 or 60 minutes take? Will any of us live that long?
Assuming my equipment is not up to the challenge, and I were to bite the bullet and upgrade; how far and fast would I have to go to accomplish this feat? And most especially, what is the realistic "processing" times you seasoned editors are experiencing for shall we say transferring 30 to 60 minute VHS "movies" to a fairly high quality and VHS equivalent quality VCD?
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