I replied to your e-mail but it seems to have bounced so I am posting the parts of my e-mail that are for public consumption: Here goes:
I live in Texas so I guess that counts as the USA. I have a bunch of video equipment and no set budget. What I want to do is to take some old video (most is pretty good anyway) and put it into an edited DVD. I have gathered a bunch of rare footage but some has that darn video frame counter at the bottom and I want it gone. Some of this stuff is VHS of two-inch video that has never been released. I thought I might play around with cleaning up some bad frames and stuff like that because it was transferred from film in other cases. In fact, I have the film in a couple of cases. I bought the little box in England from GTH Electronics called an Advanced Converter Enhancer ACE) that does some pretty good work with contrast and brightness and even colors but most of what I want to do is Black and White anyway. My box has composite and S-video which is pretty much worthless for B & W I suppose. I have a Samsung SV5000W which I play through the box to a Philips DVDR985 to archive the stuff. I have a 3/4 inch U-matic playback deck. I have a good computer with an AMD Athlon 2500 (1.8 equiv) I gig of memory and 320 gigs of disk space. Soundblaster card and that Convert-X (PXM 402U) capture box with Plextor PX 716A burner. I have edited some stuff off of DVDs with WinDVDcreator2 which looks as good as the original. I used the VOB files straight from the DVD (some from DVD Shrink) and some from the Philips. I made a great DVD with fades and transitions and titles no problem so I was surprised to read it would not work. I tried it with some DVD of a sorry tape and had sync trouble with the audio. I got
Sound Forge and am trying to figure out how to strip and separate the audio and video so I can fix it up and re-sync it.
I would love to have a good detailer. Tell me where to get one and which one to get and I'll get it.
I saw something on the web about a filter for virtualdub software that is designed to remove logos from video. I wonder if that will work and if it would help on the video counters? If not, I guess I'll have to make a mask or whatever you call it and hide them. In some cases I might be able to zoom some of it out. I have a three minute movie clip from poor film that I want to start on. It has two counters, the one on the source and the one they put on the 3/4 inch tape. The good thing is it is a lip sync-ed track so I can use the audio from the record or tape and that is no problem. In fact, most of my video has very good audio. One I have made of a kinescope is bad because it was recorded badly (clipped) to begin with and then put on the film in optical sound. I need to separate the tracks and then fix the audio and remux (I think that is what you call it)? I have my eye on the
Adobe Video Suite 2.6 but it is $1400 ($750 teacher) and my fear is that it may be too much for me to handle (not sure). It sure sounds great and has everything including the new Photoshop CS2. I do not know how to use Photo Shop but my brother does.
Anyway, thanks in advance and let me know what I need to do to start. I can probably borrow back most of the tapes I used to get the video if I need to recapture.
Thanks again and I look forward to hearing from you.
LHTEX
PS Why will DVD Shrink not work on DVDs recorded in my R985?