what was the first type of movie u converted

[Dark Angel]

mine was a poor quality anime

[boss]

the first film i converted with my computer was "way of the gun" from dvd to vcd almost 2 years ago! i remember at the time i was very excited at the thought of making my first vcd of a film. no more copying to crappy vhs and no more macrovision!
the vcd came out after 8 hours with good qaulity(for a vcd). the film was shit though!

[housepig]

not counting little test shots, trying to get things to work, first conversion was "He Who Gets Slapped", a Lon Chaney movie from 1924, about a scientist who gets his work and his wife stolen by his benefactor, so he runs off and joins the circus as a clown.

It's really creepy.

- housepig

[birdygal]

Damnation Alley from vhs to vcd wish I had a dvd burner then as I don't have my vhs of it anymore and picture could be better

[energy80s]

James Bond 007 Tomorrow Never Dies.

[Conquest10]

tomorrow never dies was my second. my first was crouching tiger, hidden dragon. it came out ok. but since then, i've learned so much that now its up to very near dvd quality.

[mecg]

Home movies (no not THAT kind!! ). Tapes of family get togethers that I've been accumulating over the years. (Weddings, birthdays, etc.) This site has been an incredable source of info and my DVD's are priceless to those who receive them! (Sorry - couldn't resist the soapbox while I had it )

[tenders]

<---- old man...can't remember :P

[Quigonsean]

Way back when Dazzle DVC cost $250usd it would be vcd of Star Wars Ep4-6, Since I just started again this Christmas with gettin DVD-R my very first rip to DVD-R was StarWars Ep2 AOTC, and it came out great thanks to the guides Iread here.

Sean

[Faustus]

Converted? I never converted format as I've only done DVD since I came here, but the first movie I succeded in doing was just a random Porn movie, but it wasn't the first I tried, it was just the first DVD5 I tried.

[EddyH]

Well first things I did were dumping out vids to VHS with a cheap converter card (mainly tons of music videos, and strings of ghibli anime, onto 5-hour cassettes in long play mode )... Mixed sources such as internet DivXs, and CD-Extra MPGs, weird-format AVIs and (UGH) far too many MOVs.
That kind of died a death both from the sheer hassle of getting it totally 'right' (setting the windows colour scheme and background to black and various shades of dark grey, making little title screens for each feature and a tape-header in paint, getting the contrast and timing right, jiggling the screen size to a properly stretched and centred 704x576 and refresh rate to exactly 50.000hz with Powerstrip..) - and the purchase of the DVD player

First experimental disc, after some strict-standard music video ones... Swordfish, from a fair quality DivX. Was quite impressed by how well it came out (it's a fairly short movie after all in xVCD terms, which sort of combined with rez reduction to make a high-rez, somewhat overcompressed divx into the equivalent of a noise free VHS), the first and for a very long time the only CQ disc I made, afterwards switching to 2-pass VBR in the mistaken belief it would all look better and take up less space. Will have to go back one of these days and see if it can be improved at all, but I think the only way of doing that would be to switch from xVCD to SVCD/CVD (some scenes have fineprint text) and use one of kwag's super custom templates

Not long after that I got ambitious and tried for Fellowship on one CD. He shoots, he scores, but only because it's such severe widescreen....


Next film to be done: Castle of Cagliostro from DVD (first 'real' DVDrip). After that, Crouching Tiger, and a second attempt at some Red Dwarf episodes (troublesome interlace). Got a metric schnozzload of divxs since hooking up to the share-a-thon that is a university LAN so can no longer decide on any of them to do

Last two films done: Shiny shiny shiny new DVDrips of Laputa and Spirited Away to replace horrid old VHS-cap versions. Was excited enough to waste a good few days and probably twenty CDRs on getting them to work properly (in 3 different versions each - standard 2-disc (shareable), X 2-disc (archive) and X 1-disc (working copy))... don't mind though, they won't be on sale in the UK until, like, forever...

Last non-anime films done: The Goonies and Ghostbusters. Nothing like a bit of classic 80s cheese to give a bored, dismal evening a lift. Very nice files and easy to convert to HQ too, which was nice.

[andydd]

blade and armageddon.........to mpeg..using some horrid software that made audio out of sync.........loooong time b4 dvd burners !

[Greg12]

a video of the 8th grade girls volleyball team.


I was in 8th grade at the time to so no dirty thoughts!

[pacmania_2001]

The Rock.

Totally screwed it up then second time round got it just right. Then my next film was Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

[DivXExpert]

The Tailor of Panama. To DivX.
All was in sync. but the quality was horrible. But I thought it was good back then.

[vivisimonvi]

My first DVD rip to VCD of Outside Providence in 2000, upon first discovering my Apex player plays such a thing. I was most excited of the idea of recordable video on a CD-R that plays on a standalone DVD player at the time.

The real problem is changing standards. First it was VCD, then XVCD was discovered, had to go back and redo most of everything I've recorded (just home videos). Then SVCD... now it's DVD...

I wonder how long until recordable media is large enough to store uncompressed video for "perfect" quality... I think DVD quality is good enough as it is as far as perfection goes...

[SIRCOOKS]

bum fights..in case u haven't heard of it, a few teenage kids went around paying bums to do crazy shit, like pull their tooths out using pliers and shit..and theyt got the footage and arrested them, but i have a vid for it...that was my first ever made vcd...

[BJ_M]

bum fights..in case u haven't heard of it, a few teenage kids went around paying bums to do crazy shit, like pull their tooths out using pliers and shit..and theyt got the footage and arrested them, but i have a vid for it...that was my first ever made vcd...

http://www2.bumfights.com/indecline/

[mysticgohan17]

windows media music videos from launch.com that was before they added that javascript protection.

[wags_70]

the first one i converted vas resident evil into a svcd

[mats.hogberg]

Mission to Mars AVI (DivX) to VCD. Didn't know (think about) frame rates, and snce it was also a NTSC to PAL conversion, it came out with those little jerks about once every second... But not that bad, cosidering my first!

/Mats

[nfl2k2]

Castaway DVD, I posted a topic here at VCDhelp asking how to convert it. I actually read all the friggin' guides, and guess what? The guides actually worked! I had lots of ambition to do things like that back then, weird.

[Cecilio]

tomorrow never dies was my second. my first was crouching tiger, hidden dragon. it came out ok. but since then, i've learned so much that now its up to very near dvd quality.

i bet now you use CVD right or if not your using X

[SatStorm]

Hmmm...
If I remember correct, my first attempt was Kylie's Minogue "Spining Around", from Viva (a german music channel) somewhere in 1999 (pre-release video). Or it was something from Disney Channel Italy? A Donald Duck story? (Paperino for italians...)

It was an amazing historical moment: It was the first time I could rip the mpeg 2 stream from satellite, using my nokia 9600 digital receiver, as seperate m2v and mpa streams with a "ancient" version of Video Grabber (by Uli Herman). I multiplexx those m2v and mpa files with an early version of bbmpeg (if I remember correct...). The result was a totaly out of lipsynch XSVCD (Viva from Hotbird was 480 X 576 with an average of 3500kb/s, so Disney Channel Italy). Then I burn it as ... Data CD and I was capable to play the disc from my PC.
Then, I re - muxx the same file as VCD (I read for that in a old forum), burn it as VCD with one of the first versions of Nero with VCD support and I was able to watch it with my nokia 9600, as xVCD with the use of a connected SCSI CD Rom!
The next 6 months I was testing "How to" technics, re-encodings, etc.
I never made a standard VCD from what I remember. Only xVCDs and xSVCDs. Those was the days....

Now I 'm watching some of my early works and think "what the hell... This quality sucks! It is blurry, there are macroblocks, the picture jumps once in a while....". But I remember clearly that my opinion was really different back then! For example: Early 2001, I marked a xSVCD as "The best encoding ever". I watched it again 2 months ago and it was terrible compared to what I am doing now. But it is marked as "the best encoding ever"!
Who knows what I'm gonna say a year from now for my today's work!

[Treebeard]

First conversion was Monsters Inc Divx --> VCD.

[Hardcoreruss]

Star wars episode 2, took me for bloody ages and looked like complete shite when I had finished.

[zzyzzx]

80's music videos and porn.

[SatStorm]

@zzyzzx
What kind of 80s music videos? I'm a video collector also.
With Porn I don't have to bother. Plenty 24h DVB channels to rip and burn as xSVCD

[abularkin]

Crouching tiger Hidden dragon using the outdated avi2vcd. Took 30 to 40 hours, but played on my dvd stand alone which I was very proud of con sidering it was 6 months before the dvd release.

[minchjp]

The Rock

Geez thatz a great movie. I don't know why it is rated "R" in Australia and if you want to go for the MA version you have to cope with a flipper (during the shower room scene)

Here are mine:

First VCD: Harry Potter
First SVCD: Sleepy Hollow
First Mini DVD: Tomorrow Never Dies (I needed the music only soundtrack)
First DIVX: American Pie 2