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?
My minimum requireemnt for converting VHS to VCD on my 7600: OS 9.1, 128 MB ram, Twin Turbo-128 8 MB video card (the one supplied with 9600 is fine), 36 GB SCSI drive, Adaptec 2930 controller (to speed up transfer rates to 17-18 MB/sec), Adobe Premiere 5, Toast Titanium 5.2. 604e-200 is adequate. 9.1 will allow video capture beyond 7 minutes (the maximum capture length set by 8.6 and earlier). Every 1 hour of video will take up 9-10 GB hard disk space and converting to MPEG-1 will add another 650 MB. An 18 GB SCSI drive is adequate for one-hour video capture. Best video capture settings are 320 x 240 frame size (I even select 300 x 225 to maintain lip sync), no video nor audio compression, medium color saturation for VHS is OK. Make sure video filters is set to VHS, not Laserdisc which causes color banding. Toast Titanium will convert Premium video clips to MPEG-1 (NTSC or PAL) but takes overnight to do it. Charlie. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> 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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
