Laserdisc to dvd - help req

[king007]

I have a pioneer LD-v4100 and have one laser disc which i need burned onto a dvd.

The back of the laser disc:



What would be the best way of doing this, is there a video editing box i can get that runs from the laser disc to the PC via scart to copy the contents onto my hard drive and work from there ?

any good guides on the net for this.

The laserdisc have voice over some video clips and also has still pictures.

On playback via scart on a tv some of the video is over lapping.

The laserdisc is from a old pc system with a 486 cpu and had a windows3.1 interface for selecting options from around the screen via touchscreen

[dphirschler]

I don't believe I've ever seen a capture card with a scart connector. You might need to convert it to s-video or composite before you can connect to your capture card. I've seen diagrams of the pinouts of scart connectors before. Try a google search for that. Once you connect, it's a simple matter to capture the video.


Darryl

[ozymango]

You could get an adaptor that'll turn the SCART output of your LD player into S-Video and audio out:

http://www.svideo.com/scartoutpro1.html

That's not too expensive. Then, from that output, you could go into a PCI video capture card, an external digital converter (e.g. Canopus device), or into a camcorder with AV passthrough. And probably something else I'm missing.

If it's just for this one time, you might end up spending a bit on hardware (and software) that might not make this terribly cost-effective for starters. But if you have time, interest, and $$$, it could certainly be worth it in the long term!

[king007]

i got a dvd recorder and done a straight copy from LD to dvd, in HQ and looks fine. (scart to scart)

what program do i need to split the audio channels, if i listen to it in stero it will play both left and right channels at the same time.

however if i select left or right channel on the tv or dvd recorder only 1 voice over will show.

my question is which program will split the audio for me ?

will pincanle studio 9 do this for me, or any other recommendations for software audio and video editing, thanks, mark.

[dphirschler]

Goldwave can split it. Heck, you could split it in AviSynth easily. Try this:

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# This is an audio player. It plays an audio file (wav) and displays the wave
# in the video frame. Each channel is normalized seperately as well.
# NOTE: Normalization causes a delay of about a minute for an 80 min audio file.

audio= WavSource("c:\work\audio_LRcombined.wav")

length=(audiolength(audio)/44100)*25
blank=blankclip(length, width=320, height=170, pixel_type="RGB24", fps=25, audio_rate=44100, sixteen_bit=true)

# normalizes each channel seperately
audioL=GetChannel(audio,1).Normalize
audioR=GetChannel(audio,2).Normalize

audio=MergeChannels(audioL, audioR)
#audio=MergeChannels(audioL, audioL)
#audio=MergeChannels(audioR, audioR)

#displays the wave (completely optional)
LoadPlugin("c:\program files\avisynth 2.5\plugins\audgraph.dll")
video1=AudioGraph(AudioDub(blank, GetChannel(audio,1)), 0).crop(0,25,320,-25).greyscale.RGBadjust(2,2,2,1) #white
video2=AudioGraph(AudioDub(blank, GetChannel(audio,2)), 0).crop(0,25,320,-25).greyscale.RGBadjust(3,0,0,1) #red
video=StackVertical(video1, video2)
video=subtitle(video,string(audiolength(audio)/44100/60), text_color=$555555)


return AudioDub(video, audio)
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Change this line to put the L or R channel in both channels.

audio=MergeChannels(audioL, audioR)



Darryl