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- Jan 2003
- Chicago, IL, USA
Basically, you need to use an analog capture card on your Mac to capture the video to your hard drive, then encode that to MPEG-2, make it into a DVD with DVD SP or Sizzle, then burn it with Toast or Disc Copy and a DVD-R drive.
If you need some recommendations on capture equipment, I could provide some advice. -
You can buy a Dazzle holly wood bridge. I'm a PC user if you have a PC you might just want to use a really time MPEg 2 card I use a Dazzle 2 pci card i cap at 8000 cbr then make my VOBs then use DVD2ONE to make it fit on DVD-R if the file is over 4.3 if you do AVI one hour of video will be over 9gig's. AVI work is really for PRO stuff people that like to make movies and stuff like that but home stuff AVI is just to much work to deal with. There is one really time MPEG 1 box for MAC but it only does VCD.
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In transfering a Laserdisc to DVD you're really looking for output in MPEG-2. DV, which is most useful in complex editing, will require a lengthly transcoding step to then obtain MPEG-2. Generally the only editing needed in transfering a laserdisc is the trimming of the extraneous video before and after the movie and during the laserdisc flip (be sure to keep a video source connected to the laserdisc player so that artifacts do not commence during the flip).
For my laserdisc conversions, I use the ADS Technologies USB Instant DVD for Mac ( http://www.adstech.com/products/macav1750/intro/macav1750intro.asp?pid=MACAV1750 ). It take the analog input and uses its internal hardware to create realtime MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 output, which then travels over USB to the Mac.
It comes with two software packages: PixeDV for digitizing and trimming and CaptyDVD for authoring and burning of the DVD. I am extremely happy with the results. It even transferred over the Dolby Surround Sound (4.0) from the "That's Entertainment" series to my DVDs and I was able to chapter them at precisely the same points as the originals.
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