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Posted by dereksmrty on 02/09/07 18:14
On Feb 9, 8:38 am, "Gene" <g...@wildblue.net> wrote:
> Good advice , Ken - I agree 100%.
>
> I too was impressed with VideoReDo.
> Quick-Stream-Fix worked miracles sometimes.
> Ad-Detective actually "automatically" removed commercials from
> DVR recordings of TV satellite stuff. It zapped ~ 95%+ of them,
> which is amazing. It just looks for the black fade-in & fade-out
> frames to know where the commercials are located, which means
> that some night scenes are mistakenly removed. The grandkids
> never knew if some of the toon was missing, and never lost their
> train-of-thought when interrupted by commercials - worked the
> same with me too :-)
>
> FYI - I had a long chat with one of their employees over the phone
> a few weeks ago. I was complaining that all I want to do is this:
>
> 1. Place a DVD-+RW in a DVD (USB2) burner on my PC & close the door.
> (This DVD+-RW contains from 2 to 6 hours of TV programming, with
> commercials)
>
> 2. Place a blank DVD-R in the 2nd DVD burner (IDE)
>
> 3. Run VideoReDo and select an option that would write out a new
> finalized DVD-R with all commercials removed, then open both
> DVD drive doors & ask me if I want to place in two more DVDs &
> do it again - all with ZERO operator intervention. The DVD would be 99%+
> full.
> This is not rocket science, but the software companies
> can't seem to understand that some of the public just want simple
> solutions. I could care less about editing scene by scene, etc. in
> this case.
>
> The good news from the conversation was that the employee at VideoReDo
> "hinted" that VideoReDo would soon have "BURNER" code implemented into
> the next release. He would not be more specific than that, but an
> "All-in-One"
> with some dumb features per above would make them rich, IMHO. I would
> buy a copy for sure. TMPGEnc could also easily write this type of
> application,
> if they wanted to do so. Either company could grab the lead, but it's a
> management
> decision. My best guess is that these companies are still controlled by
> coders. It's like the old TI, where the engineers selected the products to
> sell -
> you get wonderful technology that is not user friendly, or marketing savvy.
>
> Another dumb all-in-one app that I want is to simply plug my camcorder
> into the PC via firewire, place in a DVD-R & come back to an opened
> DVD tray containing a finalized DVD-R that has been verified via
> rewinding the tape. The DVD-R would contain the tape (whatever the length)
> and would have no more than 1% unused capacity - that is, the
> maximum quality possible for this specific tape of unknown length.
> Geesh, this should be a piece of cake - all the code is out there now.
> Unfortunately, it's not all in one program yet. But it's only a matter of
> time...:-)
>
> BTW - while I'm thinking ~ fully automating repetitive PC tasks, would
> someone post a link to a freeware program that records your mouse & keyboard
> clicks & generates a batch file thing for running multiple Windows apps?
> Some
> years ago, I had what was called a "Keyboard MacroRecorder" that worked
> great for repetitive tasks, but I lost it along the way. I did a Google, but
> did not
> find anything that looked good, and free:-) I'll pay, but there should be a
> lot of
> free stuff out there by now - just can't fine one.
>
> Thanks,
> Gene
>
> "Ken Maltby" <kmal...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>
> news:PqOdnbrvdrH9zVHYnZ2dnUVZ_sSmnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
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>
>
>
> > "The Wizard" <the_...@nospam.com> wrote in message
> >news:f9Vyh.2853$mn2.2174@newsfe7-win.ntli.net...
>
> >> "youarehappyhey" <youarehappy...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>news:1171003042.975849.210460@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >>> Hey all,
>
> >>> Just gotta vent here and ask for help with DVD burning from all of you
> >>> experts in these newsgroups. All I've wanted to do is transfer some
> >>> old home movies on VHS and 8mm video camcorder tape. I've been
> >>> running the outputs from the VCR or camcorder to a Dazzle Digital
> >>> Video Creator 150. In order to hopefully enhance the video quality, I
> >>> run the video output through a GoDVD video enhancer between the VCR/
> >>> camcorder output and the Dazzle input. The Dazzle then inputs into my
> >>> computer which is a:
>
> >>> Dell Dimension Desktop 4700
> >>> 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor
> >>> 16X DVD+/-R/RW (Phillips DVD burner)
> >>> 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM at 400 MHz
> >>> 250 GB hard drive
> >>> Operating System is Windows XP Media Center
>
> >>> My computer came with Sonic MyDVD software for burning video and data
> >>> DVDs. The Dazzle video digitizer also came with Pinnacle Studio 9
> >>> Quickstart, which allows video clips to be edited and output as
> >>> various types of files. My media of choice is Delkin eFilm Archival
> >>> Gold DVD-R. I have given up trying to make video DVDs because they
> >>> were riddled with various problems. Instead, I've decided to make DVD-
> >>> compatible MPEG files and store them on data DVDs. At least I can
> >>> reliably make data DVDs which I can verify as being exact copies of
> >>> the MPEG files burned.
>
> >>> Unfortunately, I have a series of problems in the created MPEG files,
> >>> pre-burning. First of all, Studio 9 Quickstart seems to force me to
> >>> double-encode my MPEG files. The reason this happens is as follows:
> >>> The capture step only allows me to save my initially captured video
> >>> from the Dazzle video digitizer as MPEG files. These initial MPEG
> >>> files look better than the finished ones, but I don't want to burn
> >>> these initial MPEGs onto DVD because they need to be edited and
> >>> trimmed such that blank tape captured at the beginning and end of the
> >>> tape can be edited out. Well, after I drag the initial MPEG file to
> >>> the storyboard in edit mode and trim the ends, I then have to use the
> >>> Make MPEG function in the Make Movie step to make a new MPEG with the
> >>> edits. The Make MPEG settings allows me to set a quality level of the
> >>> output edited MPEG, such as DVD-compatible, which leads me to believe
> >>> the program is re-encoding the edited MPEG, which seems rather
> >>> pointless as it is already an MPEG file. The re-encoding seems to
> >>> make the picture jerkier in the edited MPEGS, especially when the
> >>> camera moves. Isn't there a way I can just trim the beginning and end
> >>> of an MPEG file, without re-encoding the middle of it and altering the
> >>> resulting video quality? I can't seem to find a way of doing so on
> >>> Pinnacle Studio 9 Quickstart.
>
> >>> In addition, even some of my initially captured video MPEG files have
> >>> problems. The frames seem to be flickery and jerky at times. My
> >>> Pinnacle capture settings are MPEG (high-quality DVD) (6000 Kbits/
> >>> sec). I was wondering if maybe this is too high of a quality setting
> >>> for my computer to keep up with? If so, what would be a better
> >>> quality-level, in terms of bit rate, in light of my processing power.
>
> >>> I have tried everything I can think of to try to fix the above
> >>> problems, including updating Studio 9 Quickstart, Sonic MyDVD, and my
> >>> DVD burner driver, turning off my screensaver, emptying my recycle bin
> >>> and temporary files before burning, turning off my power saving
> >>> settings, checking my system for viruses, running my disk
> >>> defragmenter, not running any other applications while using my video
> >>> software, and restarting my computer right before using my video
> >>> software. Nothing seems to work.
>
> >>> I can't understand why I can't get this stuff to make simple MPEG
> >>> files for burning on data DVDs which are quality representations of
> >>> their respective videos. Is this technology not perfected or what?
> >>> All I have read indicates that my system should be perfectly capable
> >>> of doing all that. I've looked at other software video digitizing
> >>> equipment, but if you go on amazon.com, it seems like every such
> >>> product has highly mixed reviews, even Nero software, which seemed to
> >>> be the most highly respected video software on these newsgroups. If I
> >>> just knew what hardware and software and settings that could reliably
> >>> do what I want, I would happily try to purchase and use them.
>
> >>> I tried technical support from Dell, Sonic, and Pinnacle, but am still
> >>> having problems.
>
> >>> I'm so frustrated, I'm just about ready to give up on my whole
> >>> archiving project, which I was really looking forward to. What is
> >>> going wrong here, and how can I fix it? I tried to provide as much
> >>> information as I could for anyone willing to give an opinion or
> >>> advice.
>
> >> Can't really help you too much as I stopped using my TV card when I
> >> bought a seperate DVD recorder (A lot cheaper now than they used to be
> >> and great for recording Camcorder and VHS tape to DVD with no problem!)
>
> >> There is also a lot of different software mentioned on this group...Video
> >> Redo spring to mind for trimming the blank sections as you've mentioned
> >> at the start.
>
> >> Before shelling out for more software, Check the freeware newsgroup
> >> first, A lot of the freeware is just as good as the pay for stuff!
>
> >> Nero 6 would be handy as well, As there's a *Make DVD* option in the
> >> menu, Even a Record direct to DVD (Though I have'nt tried this yet with
> >> my TV card and somehow just hitting record and it going direct to disc!)
>
> >> I can't remember the actual audio, But do know it has to be set different
> >> for DVD compatabilty to what the usual audio settings of a TV card are
> >> also.
>
> >> I kept forgetting all the settings like a jerk, hence I took the DVD
> >> recorder route to make things a lot easier :-)
>
> >> T.W.
>
> > www.VideoReDo.comshould be all you need to do
> > what you have described. Nero is a great burning
> > program, but "burning" is only the process of using
> > a laser to burn pits in a die layer of a blank DVD.
> > Included with the Nero package is also "NeroVision"
> > which insists on re-encoding perfectly good DVD
> > compliant MPEG. Exposing any video to
> > NeroVision, is a form of abuse.
>
> > You have unfortunately ended up with a very poor
> > combination of hardware and software.
>
> > Dazzle has a very poor reputation.
>
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Workspace Macro, http://www.tethyssolutions.com/product.htm is a good
macro recorder. It is not free but of all that I have tried it is the
best. I actually use their Pro version. Pro version allows editing
etc.
-Derek
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