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I've been searching around for this for some time (have no much experience on it yet), so far unable to find the answers I need. Maybe this might be a nice tutorial to offer.
OK: I want to preserve and mostly to edit a little my personal, historical family-travels, etc. videos. They are on just a few analog 8mm videocassettes and I don't pretend so save everything, just what seems the most valuable footage and then edit it, mostly cutting and pasting, plus some audio post production; in order to obtain something more edible and less boring to watch at. So:
what format(s) and which parameters on that format(s) will make the best sense to use for capturing ?
of course can't be plain AVI (don't have terabytes HD) My guess is that it should be MPEG-2 ¿how many Mbit/sec should I aim for?
Should I use just the ATI capture card (see below) bundled software or another software to capture?
considering the source material are 8mm low res NTSC norm videocassettes, and then I'll need to edit the material before the final mastering to DVD or SVCD (I guess those should be the final formats nowadays, don't have a DVD burner yet though, but I guess that would change sooner or later). And I don't have a last gen video workstation. Now I have just a 1 GHz CPU and an ATI Rage 128 pro AIW capture card running on Win2K, and may get an extra 80 to 120 GB HD to do this. Getting any extra software not being an issue.
please don't be ashamed to get into all the detail you may feel necessary to obtain good results (like when following chickenman tut on DVD to DivX I or anyone here can manage to get very good results). Also, recently following different tutorials and posts I was able to do a very satisfying job on transferring my old LP's to CD's (I'm not for lousy jobs).
So good old chickeman or anyone else who may have experience on this matters, please advice here...
OK: I want to preserve and mostly to edit a little my personal, historical family-travels, etc. videos. They are on just a few analog 8mm videocassettes and I don't pretend so save everything, just what seems the most valuable footage and then edit it, mostly cutting and pasting, plus some audio post production; in order to obtain something more edible and less boring to watch at. So:
what format(s) and which parameters on that format(s) will make the best sense to use for capturing ?
of course can't be plain AVI (don't have terabytes HD) My guess is that it should be MPEG-2 ¿how many Mbit/sec should I aim for?
Should I use just the ATI capture card (see below) bundled software or another software to capture?
considering the source material are 8mm low res NTSC norm videocassettes, and then I'll need to edit the material before the final mastering to DVD or SVCD (I guess those should be the final formats nowadays, don't have a DVD burner yet though, but I guess that would change sooner or later). And I don't have a last gen video workstation. Now I have just a 1 GHz CPU and an ATI Rage 128 pro AIW capture card running on Win2K, and may get an extra 80 to 120 GB HD to do this. Getting any extra software not being an issue.
please don't be ashamed to get into all the detail you may feel necessary to obtain good results (like when following chickenman tut on DVD to DivX I or anyone here can manage to get very good results). Also, recently following different tutorials and posts I was able to do a very satisfying job on transferring my old LP's to CD's (I'm not for lousy jobs).
So good old chickeman or anyone else who may have experience on this matters, please advice here...
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