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02-18-2009, 10:46 PM
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Site Staff / Freelance Video Restorer
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This short series of mini-guides is being written for a very specific task, using specific equipment. (Someday full versions will appear on the main digitalFAQ.com site.)
Prerequisites: - VHS tapes, especially EP or SLP mode recordings
- one of the best Panasonic or JVC S-VHS VCRs
- MPEG capture card
- MPEG video editor, Womble MPEG Video Wizard is suggested
- SoundForge plus the SoundForge filter pack from this site, and/or GoldWave
- BeLight + BeSweet
- graphics software, Photoshop suggested
- DVD authoring software, and Ulead DVD Workshop 2 is my favorite
- ImgBurn
- Taiyo Yuden, Verbatim/Mitsubishi or Sony blank DVD+R or DVD-R discs
Your workflow needs to look like this: - capture video in WinTV with Hauppauge card
- edit video (remove commercials, cut junk from before or after show) in an MPEG editor, be it Womble MPEG-VCR, Womble MPEG Video Wizard (my top choice), VideoReDo or TMPGEnc MPEG Editor.
- take edited MPEG file, re-encode video to best file for a DVD, also converting audio to WAV for restoration
- restore WAV file (remove hiss, noise, buzz, etc) in SoundForge and/or Goldwave
- take new clean audio WAV, convert to AC3 or MP2 in BeLight
- create some nice menus in software like Photoshop
- author in DVD-Lab with nice menus, good video, clean audio
- burn DVD folder set with ImgBurn using Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden discs
notes for later
Prerequisites:
VHS tapes, especially older EP or SLP mode recordings
Panasonic AG-19x0P or JVC HR-Sxx00 (7000-9000 series, SR-Vx series) S-VHS VCRs -- the Panasonic works best on the SLP/EP tapes, though the JVC will give a cleaner picture (although it might not track the SLP as well) -- this guide assumes older EP tapes through a Panasonic AG-1980P
MPEG capture card, such as the Hauppauge PVR series or the ATI AIW Radeon AGP cards
MPEG video editor, Womble MPEG Video Wizard is suggested for videos longer than 2 hours ($34 at time of this writing)
SoundForge and.or GoldWave, plus the SoundForge filter pack from this site
BeLight to convert the restored WAV to AC3 -- NOTE: BeLight is the GUI (graphic interface) for the command-line BeSweet audio editor. You have to install Besweet somewhere, and then put BeLight into the BeSweet folder. There is no "installer" for this software. Manually download and unzip it,
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08-22-2009, 03:39 AM
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Site Staff / Media Project and Technical Adviser
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^Need to finish this!
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10-29-2009, 02:31 AM
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Site Staff / Media Project and Technical Adviser
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This will be included in a new site guide instead of a forum posting. 
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