WonkyGibbon
26th September 2009, 23:04
I've been lurking on this site for a couple of years but never posted. However - I do have something now to post and I hope you won't think me presumptious for doing so.
The reason I post is that, I'm just amazed that when you a buy a camcorder, the manufacturers give you nothing to help you to work with the video captured. In most cases, not so much as a pointer towards some software.
And then when you go googling for it, I can find next to no information out there that covers it. At least not in one site. Other than "buy some package and burn everything to DVD" which I don't want to do.
Of course I could just be rubbish at googling - but assuming I'm not then...
By scouring this site and others, a lot of trial and error and some banging of the head against the odd wall - I've put together a process for batch processing camcorder DV video to the best quality XVID that I believe is possible (I appreciate it's always a bit subjective).
It uses Virtualdub with DubMan, AVISynth, XVID (two passes), deinterlace filters and so on.
The idea is that someone without a great deal of technical ability could follow this "how to" and get their head round these amazing tools, install them and and use them for this task.
You can find it here http://www.wonkygibbon.co.uk/what-to-do-with-camcorder-dv-video/ - hope someone finds it useful - it took ages! Just want to give something back to the community really - without people posting on these forums, I'd never have been able to do any of this stuff. Thanks!
The reason I post is that, I'm just amazed that when you a buy a camcorder, the manufacturers give you nothing to help you to work with the video captured. In most cases, not so much as a pointer towards some software.
And then when you go googling for it, I can find next to no information out there that covers it. At least not in one site. Other than "buy some package and burn everything to DVD" which I don't want to do.
Of course I could just be rubbish at googling - but assuming I'm not then...
By scouring this site and others, a lot of trial and error and some banging of the head against the odd wall - I've put together a process for batch processing camcorder DV video to the best quality XVID that I believe is possible (I appreciate it's always a bit subjective).
It uses Virtualdub with DubMan, AVISynth, XVID (two passes), deinterlace filters and so on.
The idea is that someone without a great deal of technical ability could follow this "how to" and get their head round these amazing tools, install them and and use them for this task.
You can find it here http://www.wonkygibbon.co.uk/what-to-do-with-camcorder-dv-video/ - hope someone finds it useful - it took ages! Just want to give something back to the community really - without people posting on these forums, I'd never have been able to do any of this stuff. Thanks!