[olug] Editing and reburning home-made DVDs.

[Dan Linder]

My friend is a Linux/Windows user and isn't able to purchase a new
piece of hardware just for this purpose.  (Sure, an Apple laptop can
also run Windows and Linux, but it's an added expense he can't afford
right now.)

Dan "adding gas to the flame war" Linder

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 08:16, Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> Ok, let the flame war begin BUT have you thought about using a Mac??
>
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>>>> Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> 11/24/2009 >>>
> A friend of mine sent this question to me:
> == begin ==
> I made copies of many VHS home movies onto DVDs.  Most of these VHS
> tapes were recorded between 25 and 30 years ago in LP or SLP mode (4
> or 6 hour), so the quality was marginal at best.  I did the copying
> using a consumer VHS->DVD copier.  The copier had three modes, XP, SP,
> and LP (1, 2, and 4 hour modes).   I chose SP mode.
>
> The copy quality was decent and nicely preserved the original VHS
> movies.  However, I'd like to rip the new DVDs to PC file format so
> that I can edit them (splice, make titles, chapters, etc.) and then
> burn them back onto DVD.  As you might imagine, this poses an array of
> choices such as codec, sample rates, compression formats.
>
> I ripped the DVDs using the Xvid AVI codec that came with my ripper
> utility.  Xvid is usually ranked highest in quality.  However, when I
> burn the results back to DVD using Windows DVD Maker, there's too much
> quality loss / pixilization when I compare against the original DVD
> copy.
>
> I'm torn right now between abandoning my attempts at editing and just
> cloning the copied DVDs.  But I'd prefer to edit if I can.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for the best codec to use?  Best software
> to make this happen?  I'll take any advice!
> == end ==
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers I can throw his way?
> He's a Linux user too, so if there is a great tool you'd recommend to
> use under there he would easily be able to use it.
>
> Dan
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