Re: Convert lots of Hi8 tapes to DVD?
- From: David Chien <chiendh@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:14:03 -0700
A) I want this to be easy, but not at the expense of quality. I want to have the _best quality transfers possible_. The DVD's may end up being the masters in the long run, used to make further compilations.
Here, you may want to wait until next year until the HD DVD/BluRay DVDs are out. DVDs simply do not have sufficient bandwidth to archive videos at a 'master' quality level (broadcast/commerical master), IMO.
The MPEG-2 artifacts are simply to easy to spot and editing the videos off a DVD merely makes the resulting video look worse.
If you really want to 'archive', dump a copy of that Hi8 tape to DV tape while you're at it. At least you'll have a high-quality digital copy of the original that has error correction (to last through time) and has a decent amount of the original quality to be edited a few times w/o severe degredation (yes, there's D1-D5 tapes as well for even better archving, but for a consumer, DVs pretty much it....).
mean that poor quality MPEG transcoding then results. Ideally, the software would perform two-pass variable bitrate encoding.
Cinema Craft Encoder
B) Dropped frames should be detected by the capture software.
Vegas Video does it well. But any 2+Ghz PC nowadays will capture for hours w/o any problems at all.
C) I only want to put an hour of video on each DVD+R disc, to avoid reducing quality. Obviously, this will complicate things when working
Here, you may want to simply dump to DVD+R Dual Layer discs, which will retain the highest quality for 2 hours of video.
D) The produced DVD needs to have chapters, with a thumbnail (or video preview) index. Therefore, the software needs to assign chapters. Preferably this would be through scene detection (looking at the actual video - not through timecode change detection). In lieu of this, being able to specify a set interval (e.g. new chapter every 3 minutes) would be workable.
Pretty much any basic DVD making software does this - eg. Ulead DVD Workshop 2.0.
Does anybody here have any better suggestions?
Ulead DVD software. Vegas video + DVD.
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Here, there's something to keep in mind - with the number of tapes you have, and the limited 'knowhow' of the people involved, you may wish to consider buying a TV-top DVD recorder+HDD unit instead.
I would look at the Pioneer or Panasonic models as they're of the highest quality.
Also, you may wish to wait until the DL DVD decks come out in the USA (out in Japan already) - these will let you store 2 hours of highest quality (XP/FIne mode) video onto a DL DVD.
The HDD models allow you to insert chapter marks, edit, and menu before burning to disc.
The decks can do pretty much everything you want with minimal fuss and at a high enough quality (off a hi8 source) that you'll have a DVD disc that'll look 99% like the original w/o much trouble. (Naturally, never 100% because MPEG-2 compresses the video quite heavily, more so than even DV tape video.)
The built-in video cleanup/stabilization/noise reduction features that these decks also have can help provide a clean transfer w/o much work at all.
Naturally, with HD DVD/BluRay coming out in a year or so, you may wish to wait - these discs will hold hours of your video at the highest quality w/o noticable degredation at all.
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In the meantime, pre-conversion to digital by dumping a copy onto DV tapes may be worthwhile if you think you'll be keeping copies on tape around for decade+. It'll be in a format that has error correction, already in the DV format for easy editing, and easy to work with.
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