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December 05, 2004
Video capture, part XI
Four cassettes turned into seven SVCDs.
It's probably too late to get them home for Christmas. Not sure that 7 CDs of video is really a Christmas present anyway. It seems more like a long-term viewing project.
The video from the analog source is of considerably lower quality than that from the digital. Rubin had said that in his book, but you have to see it to believe it. Digital home video is clearly a technological jump forward.
Posted by Mark at December 5, 2004 09:36 AM
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14 cassettes into 4. From the beginning of 2000 until 3/1-2004. I've done that in the last several days. And I agree about the quality. I wonder that we though it was good. I think copying again from a copy is not the best idea, but all I can do.
Mom
Posted by: Teena Tuenge at December 9, 2004 10:27 PM
Digital video just wasn't generally available when we made all those cassettes. Editing digital video on a 2003-vintage PC can still be choppy. And I cannot even play a digital video at the same time I burn a CD.
But in a few years, the world may be littered with homemade and cheaply made video, most of it un- or incompletely edited. What hard drive manufacturers need is someone to come up with software that lets people do with digital video what they did in the 80s and 90s with desktop publishing.
Posted by: Mark at December 10, 2004 05:37 AM