Pixal
11th November 2004, 05:59
I ripped a couple of DVD's using Gordian Knot and it worked fine. Now I wanted to capture tapes of little Pixal but I'm having serious nebwie problems.
The material I'm working with is captured from VHS (PAL) with a Matrox RT2000. The captures are fine. A little noisy sometimes but I also used a Snell & Wilcox timebase corrector so no dropped frames anymore. hurray!
I'm not going to edit the material between now and 10 years. I do not want them to be played on standalone DVD players too. I just want to have every tape on a DVD as an .avi file. Just to preserver the material better than on magnetic tape. So I have 2-3 hours each that may finally be 4.7GB.
The problems:
1.
Wich codec do I use best? I need a free codec that exports to .avi. The .avi files I get after capturing are 38Gb. I want them to become 4.7Gb. I can't have visible loss (note that it's just 20 year old VHS so there isn't much loss soon.
2.
What to do. I need to de-interlace right? The captured files are not very nice on a computer monitor. How to de-interlace? Just with virtualdubs filter and the first setting of the filter?
3.
I have to crop the shit out of it. The tapes are old, so I have to crop all 4 sides with 10 - 20 pixels. After cropping I have to resize the video back to 768:576 right? Do I have to interlace first and than crop and resize or the other way around?
I really need the help, at all points this isn't like backing up a DVD. I don't know where to begin. I can read tutorials till the end but I did not find answers to these questions.
I fooled around with Xvid but I don't think I'm using the right codec (or settings).
I'm Dutch, I did my best on the English above, don't hate me about f*ckin up your language :)
The material I'm working with is captured from VHS (PAL) with a Matrox RT2000. The captures are fine. A little noisy sometimes but I also used a Snell & Wilcox timebase corrector so no dropped frames anymore. hurray!
I'm not going to edit the material between now and 10 years. I do not want them to be played on standalone DVD players too. I just want to have every tape on a DVD as an .avi file. Just to preserver the material better than on magnetic tape. So I have 2-3 hours each that may finally be 4.7GB.
The problems:
1.
Wich codec do I use best? I need a free codec that exports to .avi. The .avi files I get after capturing are 38Gb. I want them to become 4.7Gb. I can't have visible loss (note that it's just 20 year old VHS so there isn't much loss soon.
2.
What to do. I need to de-interlace right? The captured files are not very nice on a computer monitor. How to de-interlace? Just with virtualdubs filter and the first setting of the filter?
3.
I have to crop the shit out of it. The tapes are old, so I have to crop all 4 sides with 10 - 20 pixels. After cropping I have to resize the video back to 768:576 right? Do I have to interlace first and than crop and resize or the other way around?
I really need the help, at all points this isn't like backing up a DVD. I don't know where to begin. I can read tutorials till the end but I did not find answers to these questions.
I fooled around with Xvid but I don't think I'm using the right codec (or settings).
I'm Dutch, I did my best on the English above, don't hate me about f*ckin up your language :)