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Vegas 4.0 Render Problem
Posted on December 23rd, 2004 | 2 Comments

I'm using Vegas 4.0 BTW. I have basically two tracks in my project. Each consists of text which provides a caption for the video, and then there is an audio track. Text, video, and audio are actually...

Re: Premiere 6 DV compression question
Posted on December 23rd, 2004 | 0 Comments

That works for me too. 4 years later.

CPU Benchmarks here - Pick a processor that meets your needs
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041221/cpu_charts-18.html from here on are the most relevant to video editing. However, the entire review is good since it let's you know exactly which processors...

make dvd widely available
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

I need to distribute a 1-hour long video which is currently in DVD format to 40 people. I want to do this in the cheapest possible way. I bought a DVD Writer, but the copies I get are not good. The...

do any of these programs actually work?
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 39 Comments

I followed the advice I got in this ng and went to Afonic DVD Guides to look for programs that actually work. They claimed a program called IfoEdit would easily author DVD's. What a joke. Do these...

DVD Re-author Question
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

That is exactly what I was trying to do. I tried another poster's suggestion and downloaded the app on the banner add (VideoReDo). It works great. The only downside is that I can't import video...

Ping Leonid - VHS capture processing.
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

Leonid, YOu gave me a lot of help capturing VHS video and that seems to be going well now, thank you. YOu were looking into processing options (denoising, smoothing, Colour etc) filters in TMPG (I...

DVD Copy Question
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 15 Comments

After several weeks of experimenting, I think I've gotten to where I want to be. My goal was to be able to make DVD copies of VHS tapes going back as far as 1983 when my youngest daughter was born....

Recommended software to author DVD from AVIs ?
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 3 Comments

I have various OEM programs which came with my burner (MyDVD, Nero lite and Pinacle Studio), but none of these seems to do a decent job of transcoding and burning DVDs from DivX files. Pinnacle will...

FPS conversion help
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 3 Comments

Hi - I know the idea of giving video a 'film look' has been discussed many times before, but....I was wondering if there is a simple way to give my video (NTSC) a more 'strobing' kind of...

VHS to MPEG, AVI, whatever
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 7 Comments

Hi. I've seen a lot of posts asking how to convert MPEG, AVI to VHS but I haven't seen anything for converting VHS to MPEG, AVI. Maybe because its obvious, I don't know, not to me. My story is this,...

Big savings on Avid Xpress Pro
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

At DV Expo earlier this month Avid announced Xpress Pro HD.($1695 MSRP) In addition to support for HD and their new DNxHD codec, Pro HD adds some very cool features: - native DVCPRO HD editing;...

DV capture problem - going blocky sooner or later
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 3 Comments

Hi, I think I may be overlooking something here but what? If I attempt to capture video from a DV source then sooner or later the captured video will go blocky. Soon after the application will...

trying to make a simple DVD
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 14 Comments

I've been trying to use Ulead DVD software to make a DVD and it just gets worse and worse. I have captured video in .avi format that I captured with VirtualDub. I have Ulead Movie Factory. I open...

Large file size for QT video?
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 4 Comments

Two years ago I took some Yellowstone vacation video, edited it with Ulead, saved as .mpg an 11 minute video, about 370 meg. Now I'd like to put it on a CD to send to my mother, who has a MAC. (No...

VCD overscan seems greater than original VHS. Why?
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 22 Comments

Hi, I have just started to get into digital video. I am converting some programmes from VHS to VCD. When I watch the resultant VCD on my computer, the video frame seems the same as the original VHS...

DivX problem with 5.1 surround sound
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

I'm using Zoom Player to watch various movies on my PC. Recently, I tried watching a DivX movie that was encoded with 6-channel AC3 audio. Unfortunately, Zoom Player could only play 2 of the 6...

FAQ on video capture?
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 6 Comments

Hi all, I was wondering if someone could point me to a difinitive FAQ or guide or just help me with the following: I have a pretty vast library of VHS tapes which I would like to transfer to DVD so...

ATI RADEON 7000ve or MATROX G 400?
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

I mainly care about the s video out/tv outs. Wich has better picture quality?

capturing with pcmcia 1394 on a laptop?
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 | 3 Comments

Hi, Does anyone have any experience with DV capturing on a laptop? I've seen pcmcia firewire cards for as low as 20 euro. I'm wondering if I could expect some reasonable capturing with one of those...