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jfcarbel
19th March 2002, 15:27
Seinfeld DVDs - need volunteers to help with the content on my Seinfeld Special Edition DVD.

I am planning on the SE DVD including cast bios, women of seinfeld, magazine covers, cast photos, interactive episode guide, index of special guests on show, fun facts about the show and characters, commercials made by the stars, and interviews and TV appearances.

I have completed getting the top 9 of 10 Seinfeld episodes and am not far off from completing all seasons as well. 100 episodes on DVD so far.

So I am looking for a volunteers to provide me with video material and high quality photos. Photo scans should be in 720x480 at 300 dpi minimum with 600 dpi prefered.

Whats in it for you?
Well I can offer those who help a copy of a Seinfeld DVD that has official Top 10 episodes, Finale 1/2, Clip Show 1/2 (14 episodes in all). All on a double sided DVD. Special feature disc will include cast bios, women of seinfeld, magazine covers, cast photos, interactive episode guide, index of special guests on show, and fun facts about the show and characters. Special Feature disc is a work in progress though so you may have to wait a bit on this one.

Now to be fair, those who just send me say one cast photo are not going to get these DVDs for free. Those that send lots of pictures or video material will of course get the discs free all I ask is that you pay shipping. For those that send just one photo, if I choose to use it then I will give you the option to get the DVD, but I just ask you pay shipping + cost of DVD.

All episodes are commercial free and captured from a high end capture card (Matrox RT2000) via DirectTV S-Video feed and then compressed with CCE to 3700 VBR 3 pass for top 10 and I used 3500 CBR for the rest and they have AC3 stereo 192 kbps. Quality is excellent!

Please do not contact me asking to buy this set, this is not legal. I do not wish to make money on this, it is just a personal project/hobby.

VHS tapes should be the originals and be in SP format. Why - the originals you ask, because copies of the original cause generation loss and the quality is worse. First off capturing from VHS for DVD is not a good idea, so I must maximize the quality I input into the encoder. I do have a VCR with TBC (Time Base Corrector) so that should help improve capture from VHS. I may accept EP tapes if the content is rare, but I have not yet tried capture from EP tapes. Just contact me woth what you can offer.

I understand offering your original tapes to someone is not an easy thing to do, so email me and we can talk in person and I can offer my Ebay Id so you can view my perfect Feedback. I will of course pay shipping on your contributions you send.

jfcarbel
19th March 2002, 15:59
Regular VHS resolution is about 320x240 resolution.

So should I capture for DVD at 720x480 or do I capture at 320x240 and then resize using VirtualDub's Smart resize filter?

Which will give me the best quality?

milctoast
23rd March 2002, 01:15
This is from what I expirienced from video capturing.

Grabbing a frame at 320x240 and then resizing it at 720x480 will enlarge the horizontal lines with a funny aspect ie. the heads for example will be wider.
Grabbing a frame at 320x240 again and resizing it takes anesessary time. If your computer can grab at DVD resolutions then go ahead and do so. Also if your source has noise then by resizing you will enlarge the noise as well and it will be more noticeable, unless you do a Noise Filter before resizing which at the end will ruin (maybe?)the output.
Best quality from my expirience comes from capturing double the framesize of what you want to do, then do the editing and the reduce the size to the desired one, but always respecting aspect ratio.
Since you want to do DVDs, capture at DVD resolutions.

jfcarbel
24th March 2002, 05:07
Thanks milctoast

My card support 720x480 capture, so thats what I will do.