Cornell vs. Hahvahd, CSTV, and Tivo

[CowbellGuy]

RedAR wrote:
Also, if I'm not mistaken, some of the newer Powerbooks (aluminum) has Firewire 800 built-in.

Yeah, the 15" and 17", but since you said TiBook, I was alread rambling a bit and decided to be breif(er). =]

[RedAR]

Unfortunately, I've run into a snag in terms of converting the TiVo feed to DV.  I got myself a DV bridge, and tried to bring the video into my computer, but while the audio came through, the video wouldn't.  I've tried importing in both Final Cut Pro and in iMovie.

Sully and I are planning on trying again, and I would love to get some info on what I may be doing incorrectly.  If anyone (Age?) could give me some pointers, I would really appreciate it.

My next attempt will be to try to run the feed directly into a DV camera, but I have to get my hands on a DV camera first.

I'll try to keep you all updated, and if I can get the video onto my computer, then I should be able to create DVD's (at cost) for everyone.

[jy3]

redar,
if you are able to convert it into pretty much any format (mpeg, mpeg2, mpeg3, avi, etc.) i should be able to figure out how to convert it to dv format and then burn it. i am going to be doign the same thing with some tv shows that were recorded with a tv tuner card that i want to burn on dvd. i can let u know what happens with those if you get stuck. i also hope to get a digital camcorder that can convert vhs/s-video into video files on computers that can then get burned. lemme know

[CowbellGuy]

He needs to get it as DV before any other format. I've been a slacker, but I'll see if I can help.

[RedAR]

Update:

Video has been transfered to my computer, and I've done the first round of editing.  Still, it's 9 minutes too long, so I'm trying to find things I can cut out.  There is an interview with Mike Eaves regarding the WJC, and I figure I can cut that entire segment out.  That'll leave in Adam speaking out about the Div. III thingy.

I'll keep you posted when I've actually burned a DVD.

[jy3]

redar
if u have a good internet connection you could always upload it to my ftp server too. it will take a while but if you feel inclined...when it is done of course

[D!]

Since you've already got the footage down and almost ready to go, if you can make a DVD image with all the requisite VOB files, just run it through DVDShrink, and it will automatically size the whole project down for you, no need to cut anything.
Er, that is of course if you have a pc, I don't know if that program is coded for Mac.

For anyone else out there who is interested, my windoze notebook was able to go from a DV deck to an external 160 to the computer.  no frames dropped.   On-the-fly didn't work so well, and it turned out that pushing to DV tape was better anyway, because the timecodes are laid down, and some programs allow batch capture, so you can scan through and skip the commercials.

[CowbellGuy]

/me checks the Mac-PC fire for some embers and pokes them...

Muahaha. My hockey game DVDs were on-the-fly DV captures to my Mac from my TiVo with no dropped frame. 3+ hours, no problem. And on a 3-year old Mac at that :-)

As for RedAR's issue, I think he's using iDVD or something (ick). The bitrate is variable with DVD Studio Pro. If iDVD will let you build the DVD on your drive and it comes in over 4.5G, you could use something like DVD2One to recompress it to fit on a DVD.

[D!]

Yeah, weaning myself off of half-decent hard drives and systems and onto a notebook hasn't given the greatest results.   I bet you could dig up an old mac still using SCSI and get better performance than my crappy setup.  512MB of RAM and winduhs still has to drop everything it's doing just to cache some data.
Heck, for that matter, maybe I should go out and buy an Amiga off of ebay.  They're still good enough for some cable broadcasters...

[RedAR]

Age,

Yeah, because I've never done any video editing apart from iMovie, and the only DVD I've ever burned is using iDVD, that is the route I'm taking.  I do have access to Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, but don't have to time to fiddle to figure out how to do things there.

The game was captured using iMovie, and has been edited (commercials removed), and is ready to be burned.  I was intending to use iDVD 4, which allows for 2 hours at full quality.  I'm sure it'll allow longer videos if the quality is reduced, but I'd prefer not to do that.

If you can guide me in getting my edited iMovie files (with chapters predefined) into DVD Studio Pro for burning, then by all means, I'd rather do that.  Otherwise, I'll have to cut some footage since I don't want to lower the quality of the video of the game.

[jeh25]

D! wrote:


Heck, for that matter, maybe I should go out and buy an Amiga off of ebay.  They're still good enough for some cable broadcasters...

I've got a NeXT Dimension you can buy. Even does composite and svideo...