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VHSC No Sound
Posted on August 15th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Hi, very new to this and having a blast. I have fumbled and trial and erred myself up to producing dvds of dv footage that I shoot and now just need to keep learning and getting better. However, I...

VOB to AVI
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 2 Comments

What are people using to make these 700 meg AVI files from DVDs?

Microsoft hidef samples
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 2 Comments

These samples represent an interesting challenge; they seem to require a lot of power to play. In my AMD dual processor system running XP, I have an Nvidia 5900 card, which has an integral mpeg...

Re: Would the Plextor PX-M402U benefit from a TBC?
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Just an update.. The Plextor device does have problems keeping sync of the video and audio doing long captures (over a half hour) of poor quality VHS tapes. My DV camcorder does not have this...

display card which one to choose
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 6 Comments

hi, i am an absolute beginner. i am editing short movies on my pc using Adobe premiere, i would like to use to buy a video card that has 3 heads , two for the 2 monitors I have, and one tv output to...

What is i-link? How to connect
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 7 Comments

If I was to connect my DV cancorder to an i-link socket to record from my camera would I use the Lanc or DV in/out (firewire) socket on my camera? Regards Brian

Multiple camera
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hello I am able to figure out few more options in AVI_IO 0 c 03.24. Today i tried to do multiple camera capture using AVI_IO 0 c 03.24 . But now i have some other petty issues . But first of all i...

Century Optics 16:9 adaptor?
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

How easy does it attached to the camcorder? It seems to need to be carefully lined up so how well does it work?

Low quality playback on comp monitor using Matrox RT.X10 and Prem Pro
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Hi, When using Premiere Pro with the Matrox settings, I get poor quality playback on my computer monitor, even though the video monitor output looks fine. I suspect the output on my computer monitor...

DesktopX 2.19m beta
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Hi Downloaded the latest beta version today Friday 13th, only to find I cannot now load up my desktopX theme due to the following message "DesktopX - Entry Point Not Found, procedure entrypoint...

16-bit codecs under windows xp
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Anyone know of a way to make 16-bit codecs work under Windows 2000 or XP? I'm particularly interested in getting Indeo 2.1 and ATI VCR1 to work. P.S: This is what I already know: Assuming your...

How can I convert .bup, .ifo., .vob files to MPEG?
Posted on August 14th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I found a program (123 copy DVD) that will take a DVD and put it on my hard disc. It ends up as a bunch of files in these formats. I want to take the information and edit it in Studio 8 which will...

CD play script?
Posted on August 13th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi, I want to build an extremely simple 4-button cd player, ie: track back, forward, stop, and play. It was very simple to do this in MultiMediaBuilder, but I can't seem to find similar...

H.263 question
Posted on August 13th, 2004 | 1 Comments

What companies make ITU-compliant H.263 codecs? I looked at the fourcc.org page and I've seen these D263 DEC I263 Intel L263 Lead M263 Microsoft T263 March Networks X263 Xirlink A real alphabet soup!...

How to identify type of DVDR?
Posted on August 13th, 2004 | 9 Comments

Is there a commonly available way to identify whether a burned disk is DVDR+, or DVDR-? And, preferably, to see some other details about how it was made (like resolution and perhaps bitrate)? I have...

Analog input to MPEG1
Posted on August 13th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I need some advice. What is the best way to convert an analog NTSC input to MPEG1 in or close to real time (VCR input to MPEG1). There seem to be a lot of products out there, but all of them seem...

No loss to DVD?
Posted on August 13th, 2004 | 6 Comments

We have been using WinProducer and Sonic to transfer home videos (Super VHS and DV) to DVD. However, we are very disappointed with the final DVD quality. Lots of grain and sometimes jerky movement....

Converting my AVI files that look great, to burn to DVD
Posted on August 13th, 2004 | 3 Comments

We are capturing great AVI with either Premire Pro or Power Director. We now need to edit and burn to DVD. If we encode to MPEGII format the size drops, but the resolution drops 40%. Our AVI files...

VideoLan and codecs
Posted on August 13th, 2004 | 3 Comments

I got hold of videolan a few weeks back for it`s MPEG2 playback capability (i`ve been making up some SVCD`s). Even on my low spec machine (700Mhz, 256Mb) it was totaly adequate with very little...

Can I rotate an .AVI 90 degrees?
Posted on August 13th, 2004 | 7 Comments

I took an .avi movie with my Fuji digital camera, but because it was of Old Faithful geyser, ot seemed a gtood idea at the time to do it in portrait orientation. Now everyone has to turn their heads...