Re: Paging Agamemnon...


"Bazza" <Bazza2556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:NMAdi.16364$aS5.1468@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A couple of questions for you matey. I have just got Ulead DVD Movie Factory 5 (impressive!) and am going to start getting some *** off my hard drive

Ah ha, I solved that problem another way. Bought a 500GB hard drive, and apart from the fact that it wasn't actually 500GB but only 465 because Seagate are using the wrong definition of Gigabyte, that should give me another 8 weeks before it fills up at my current rate of usage, and then its back to the same old problem.

and backing up season 3 onto DVD. Now in the past I've always used the in-built Windows Movie maker package that came with XP do add my titles and transition effects but quite frankly as well as being seriously outdated every fucker and his wife is using it on You Tube and so any credibility it had is now gone.

You mean that and the fact its almost completely unstable and won't even let you advance by individual frames but what seems like multiples of two at best so you can't make precise edits.

Also it would often not recognise my MPEG files and so I

What is the file extension on your MPEG files. The thing I found with Pinncale Studio 8 was that if the file's extension was .mpeg it said it could not load them but it could load files with the extension .mpg so I changed all the .mpeg file extensions to .mpg to get them to load. Unfortunately Studio 8 will not work properly with AVI files, since it wont play back any sound nor will it let you select any codec's to save the audio with the AVI in.

would back convert to AVI's...edit....add titles etc...and re-convert to MPEG. A pain in the arse process that destroyed the definition and quality.

I can't even get Windows Movie Maker 5.1 to load an MPEG-2 file without it instantly crashing.

Can you recommend a more modern program that will add titles and do some basic transitory effects for me?

Pinncale Studio will do it (not moving titles but stationary ones and will do scene transitions) but won't playback audio on AVI files. Don't use Intervideo WinDVD. Its absolute rubbish and Intervideo don't provide bug fixes between major version changes. When you set it to make a DVD it can't even remember the edit points you selected but puts them all in the wrong place, with the correct spacing but stating at the wrong time on the recording. On top of that it uses a *** deinterlacer that applies radius .5 or radius 1 Gaussian blur and also worst of all is will NOT record a 2 hour DVD at 720x576 resolution but only at 360x576 and this applies of all Intervideo software. Garbage. It will not even load AVI's or any other type of file format at all.

I think AviSynth will let you superimpose text onto a video or at least place it on a plain background it generates itself.

Second question...I've actually got hold of the title sequence without any episode name or writers names on it. I use this as my pre-menu sequence but overlay the season and volume numbers over it (ask if you want a copy), but what I really need is good copy of the closing titles so that I can edit out all of the damn commentary from the BBC newscaster announcing the bloody lottery etc. Even better I would like to edit out the "next weeks episode" clips as these aren't required on a DVD. Do you by chance have a clear end titles rip I could have?

I've been looking for one of those myself but can't find one on any of the previous episodes of season 3 that are clean or which I can edit into a clean sequence without the need of professional editing software which can combine sections of one frame from one video with another section from another so as to edit out the titles and leave you with a plain background, and then you'd have to lift the production credits from one episode (background free) and superimpose them on another in the right place and then there's the problem of timing that to fit in with the next trailer at the end.

If not I'll have to go buy a legit DVD and rip them

Yep. That's what the tossers running the BBC deserve for mutilating the closing credits.

myself (and then take it back to the shop afterwards with some made up complaint about it freezing or something).
If you can help please let me know.

(Before anyone asks why I don't just buy them and calls me a skinflint it's because I like to do my own edits and try to improve on the often very poor BBC releases. Mine for example carry all of the audio commentaries as an

You mean the BBC DVDs don't even carry the commentaries at all. What about the video ones that are on the interactive service?

extra audio track plus the Confidential episode tie-ins and any Tardisodes. Had the BBC had the sense to do the same I wouldn't have to make my own versions).

Or the sense to charge a competitive price for the DVD. Its half a US seasons worth therefore you should not expect to pay more than £12 for the complete seasons boxed set, maybe £17.50 during the first month of release but no more than that. Ontop of that you have already paid the actors and production staff with your licence fee so you should only have to pay for the cost of manufacturing the DVD.


Cheers

Baz


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