Loss interests in making VCD, DVD

[ktnwin]

After spending 2 years making video CDs and almost a year making home DVDs, I have mastered the technique to produce high quality VCD and DVD (even 3 hours on one blank DVD-R). I enjoyed learning new stuff every day.
Suddenly, I loss the interest in learning other ways to make DVD.
I still make DVD when the need arise but using my known and familiar methods.
DVD writers cost a lot less now, half as what I used to pay but I don't care anymore.
Does anyone ran into the same problem here ?
What are your reasons for losing interest on this subject.
My reason: I am now learning something else which is also very interesting to me (note: knowing how to make DVD does help me in this new subject).

[BJ_M]

porno

[Devanshu]

^^^^ Great idea!!

Um...as long as you learned something, it's worth the time. You gotta realize, nothing lasts forever. And like you said, you have a new hobby but give it some time...it'll get old too.

[mysticgohan17]

What are your reasons for losing interest on this subject.

porn

[RabidDog]

you missed out making svcd/cvd?

[indolikaa]

Porn. It's the natural evolutionary step! :P

You know, I haven't been around lately. You got me thinking, and in my case, I learned enough to do what I want to do in the hobby right now. I still logon because I like the social aspect of this site. I've met some nice people and I get to peddle my sense of humor around, which is something I enjoy. And generally speaking, this a good group of people to hang around with when your forte is not person-to-person. Calling Indolikaa anti-social would be an understatement!

Enjoy your new hobby, but come back and say hello once in awhile!

[thayne]

Weird, me too. I have lost just about all interest in DVD's, SVCD's and movies in general. I wonder if the MPAA launched some kind of clandestine chemical attack? Maybe it's just burn out?

[pacmania_2001]

I lost interest in VCD/SVCD awhile ago after I learnt all the stuff I needed for the things I needed to do. I still decided to hang out here for the social aspect, thats the reason why the majority of my posts are in off topic.

Just recently though I got a DVD writer and learning about it has resparked interest in video editing.

[racer-x]

I never really cared about copying movies to VCD and DVDs. I use my DVD burner for what it was ment for, make DVDs from my own edited footage.

I know, your probably thinking........man that must be boreing. Nothing could be further from the truth. By the time I'm done with the special effects I've created from scratch, it become something everone wants to watch. I get nothing but praise for my work.

If you want to do something hard and rewarding, try some creative video editing.

[Rookie64]

I'm very into editing as well, and doing creative things with captures, restoration and filmmaking.

It can be time-consuming - but it's not boring for me.

I chose the nick, Rookie, for a reason...it means I don't claim to be an expert on anything - I'm always learning something as I go along and have an open mind.
There's no such thing as knowing everything :P

I usually visit the site while I'm burning DVDs.

Have many interests in lots of things and rewarding experiences in this field 8)

[overloaded_ide]

It's a continual quest for knowledge and skills!

You have a deep desire to learn things you don't know and gain the skills to do things you can not do! BUT THEN, you know most of what you need to know and have the skills to do the things you wanted, so it is no longer a challenge. It may not be mastered to perfection, few things ever are, but enough has been learned and gained to succeed in the endeavor without much effort. The excitement of discovering new things and being successful has faded to just "well I made another working disk"! So we decide to move on to a new challenge we have not yet mastered, and once we become reasonably skilled at that it will be time to discover another, and another until the time comes we no longer have the ability to learn, then we die!

Either that or he got hooked on porn?

[gmatov]

Overload,

Now, when did you learn to type like that? Perfect. Is it the forum you're in? You don't have to fit in with the misspellings? Kidding, but wish they all were.

I'm not into DVDs yet, do not even know if I will, as I've only got some 20+ DVDs I care to watch, at least repeatedly.

The site has gotten boring, DVD-(S)VCD wise. And, when we start something a little controversial, we get locked down, Off Topic or no.

Ah, well.

Hope this goes a bit further.

Cheers,

George

[lordsmurf]

I get that way too. Especially after days like today (lost a hard drive, had to spend $300 on new 500W power supplies and colling fans/wires/etc to prevent that from happening again).

I won't ever quit, but I'll be scaling back my conversions for a while... have other things to do... and already have plenty of DVDs to watch for a long time coming.

[Will Hay]

I'm continually increasing my ability in producing home video.
I record the little one once a month, ten or fifteen mins (more at hols) and burn once the combined footage is around 4gb.
My effects, transitions and menu's etc. are simple but I'm dead proud of my achievement and look forward to the day my son (and unborn daughter) turn to me and say...
...."Dad, thanks for preserving those memories".
We've already got so much from the 20 months I've taken so far, and I would have loved to have had the same footage from my childhood.
The only drawback at the minuteis finding the time.
Where did the years go?
Will

[overloaded_ide]

I used a spell checker that time
It was not typed that way for certain!

I enjoy the movies, not watching them really but converting them to DVD.
I do the DVD rip backups so our expensive disks won't be ruined, but no challange or even real fun in that, I just do it because I am to cheap to pay $15-$20 to buy the same movie again latter!

I had a camcorder when my daughter was born, then it got broke and I never replaced it. At times I find it depressing somewhat to do tapes for others. Like the tapes I did for a friend last weekend with her kids recitals and friends that have died. It was not the content of the tape that depresses me, it is the fact I never recorded age 3 and up of my 12 yr old daughter. She did some great stuff that should be on film/disk for the family, but now it is lost forever except memories of those that actually saw it in person!

One reason I think I am interested in setting up a little shop now doing this for others. Money is nice, but not the real reason. And also many of the school events she did some of the other parents recorded. I may get lucky and do some VHS to DVD conversions with my daughter in them, then I can cut a copy for myself too! Maybe grab back some of what I missed?

Much of it is the challange though. I think I first realized this when I pretty much began to feel like I mastered Tmpgenc DVD author! Everything is turning out the way I want it now, easy is good when in a hurry or doing for someone else, but now it's too easy for my own.
I got the bugs out of my captures that I first had. Now I constantly look to see if a new version is listed when I come to the front page here. Looking for something new in the program I haven't tried to do, but don't know what?

Now I am planning to start using DVD-lab (trial I hope) I hear so much about, same reason, to find something new to do or at least try to do.

I think that is why I have so many computers, another quest or adventure in building something else. I am happy with what I have, but yet I sold one as a bare bones and bought a 333fsb system board and 2500xp cpu so I could build somethng new.

I wonder if that's why so many rich people get into so much trouble now adays?? When you have more money than you can spend, what is there for a challange? Why build it when you can buy 10 already built? Or pay someone to do it for you?

I bet rich people are very bored! Someday I hope to find out personally

[gmatov]

Will,

Your point is well taken. We're digital now, we can take a movie and have some hope of at least putting it on some other medium in future, not as in my day, when they came up with the film format of the month, all incompatible.

Just don't forget to transcode to the format of the day,or it WILL be ueless in future.

The Smurf says he is getting bored, but if you do this for a business, in any form, you keep on keeping on. At least I would. We do the best we can, if it is the best we can do.

I might try to do the same thing, as I live in a small town in which no one does anything technical. Just for something to do. Not because it is in any way a challenge, even though I don't know it all, or even most of it.

I don't know. Should we , or you, be bored? Probably.

Cheers,

George

[Will Hay]

Hey George

Just don't forget to transcode to the format of the day,or it WILL be ueless in future.

I'm archiving as mpeg2 and also burning to DVD format (AUDIO & VIDEO_TS), there's not much more I can do, right?
Hopefully I'm doing everything I can to achive a 'future-proof' file, but if anyone else has any suggestions....
Saving as avi's is a little bit of a problem at the minute, but I'm still holding out for that 90GB capacity DVD-r disk
Will

[tgpo]

My primary interest right now is making my own movie and getting it out there so all of ya'll can back it up

[overloaded_ide]

My primary interest right now is making my own movie and getting it out there so all of ya'll can back it up

Great, let me know when it's finished, and a link, so I can download a divx backup

Actually that is one of my goals, I am/was creating a magic video. At a dead stop right now though. Not enough space to work properly and camcorder recordings were not good enough. One would be great, next lousy, inconsitant quality recordings are not aceptable to me!! Looking for a new camera I can afford. Then start over I guess, though I may be able to slavage some work.

[tgpo]

My primary interest right now is making my own movie and getting it out there so all of ya'll can back it up

Great, let me know when it's finished, and a link, so I can download a divx backup

Actually that is one of my goals, I am/was creating a magic video. At a dead stop right now though. Not enough space to work properly and camcorder recordings were not good enough. One would be great, next lousy, inconsitant quality recordings are not aceptable to me!! Looking for a new camera I can afford. Then start over I guess, though I may be able to slavage some work.

The easiest way to make a movie is to simple start. Then once you get the momentum started, keep it going. Then once you finish, make another one. And another, etc.

[gmatov]

Will,

Sorry, "transcode" and "format of the day" was the wrong way to put it.

I mean as a way to preserve the files so they can be written to 2010, 2020, 2030's playback devices.

Today's 12 cm disks are gonna be out of fashion in a few years. What the next "great" thing is, I do not know, but we all know they'll keep coming up with something to get us to migrate to.

Problem is, where the hell do you keep multi-gigs of files safely for future use? It's easy to say get a good big hard drive but that's a crapshoot, too. It's probably fair to say you got a 50-50 chance of a drive biting the dust every time you boot up.

Lordsmurf said a couple posts ago he's just lost one. Others have, also. And few of us can afford to store them offsite, EMS or something.

Hell, I have 30 year old 8mm films that I have no hope of playing today.

Ah, well, keep the files somewhere, copy to the latest and greatest, hope you can continue till the end. At least it will keep you busy in your twilight years

Cheers,

George

[Craig Tucker]

My effects, transitions and menu's etc. are simple but I'm dead proud of my achievement and look forward to the day my son (and unborn daughter) turn to me and say...
...."Dad, thanks for preserving those memories".

Don't expect those sentiments untill they are about 30. It's more likely to be oh my god dad thats so embarrasing you cant show it to anyone.

Good future weapon also, when your boy brings his first girlfriend home. If he's being a pain in the arse you can always threaten him with the cute first potty DVD's.

[indolikaa]

Where did the years go?

No kidding.

[ktnwin]

Whow - that's a lot of suggestion and opinion on this subject I brought up.
Porn - done that - boring too.
Don't take me wrong, I still make DVD (and VCD/SVCD) when I need to (for home video tapes), it's just I do not spend time to explore other ways to do it. My current methods produce very good DVDs, the way I wanted it.
It's like you want to learn something new, you got very exicited trying all kinds of stuff. Once you know how to do it and did that over and over to perfect your method, then you stick with you method and stop learning new ways.

[gmatov]

ktnwin,

That wasn't exactly what I meant.

A better conversion/shrink, whatever comes along, I'll try it same as I'll upgrade to a new version of whatever I use now.

Your remark, no offense, is more like the guys I work with. "We been doing it this way 50 f'n years, you want to change now?"

Change is good, usually. Point is, some of these tools are so good, it's put in a disk, click a few times, burn and done.

Oh, yes, I'm into DVDRs now, above I was still VCDs. And, yes, I said I might not bother re-backing up those VCDs to DVD, (from the origial DVD, not VCD-DVDR, but the quality is enough better that I am almost forced to.

Still, it's point and click, not a challenge to keep you awake nights improving an (S)VCD.

Cheers,

George

[ktnwin]

gmatov,
I understood well your remarks about my "no change" attitude.
Personally, I hate that attitude too. If you read my first message, I am learning another new thing which is more excited for me, and still continue to improve this stuff. This left me no time to improve my DVD making process - it work fine for me. In my career, "change & improvement" are the only constant.

[VideoTechMan]

I havent gotten into making DVD's yet, mainly because of the fact that I havent gotten a DVD burner yet. ANd with all the software I have and everything, and the related books to learn it, I just have yet to get into it...I dont know why...I guess i need to get myself into gear somehow and get into doing something. I know I have TONS of material that I would love to apply special effects to and everything, and to make movies of stuff that I created. I know I recorded the entire FFVII Playstation game to Hi-8 that I would love to convert into a movie-type thing...that would be fun, and a big project as well. But for me though I bought alot of expensive software like Premeire and After Effects, even ReelDVD (which took forever to save up the money for) and I have yet to get into learning either....since I gotten books for both. I guess for me its motivation....Ive also wanted to save up for a professional camcorder....and not the kinds in stores like Circuit City....the ones that you have to order, the ones with the 3-CCD lenses. Ive always wanted to be a videographer and make my own adventure movies...I feel if I had the equipment I could get the motivation to get into it. I would be glad to liberate some of that money from the rich folks to finance my projects if they are that bored

VTM

[gmatov]

KTN,

I know what you mean.

I am using Shrink, hasn't failed me yet. Might allow me to delete a couple hundred gig of files. I ripped them when it was not that easy. Now it's rip and go, one program. Just put the disk in.

Love it. Get rid of tons of VOBs and VCDs, SVCDs. Won't even need the next HDD. Save a buck.

Cheers,

George

[Will Hay]

....and I get to peddle my sense of humor around, which is something I enjoy.

Glad someone enjoys it
Will

[Will Hay]

Like everyone with a dvd burner I lost interest in VCD's (never did try out SVCD's).
In my mind I keep saying I've had my time here, but I still come back.
If I say so myself I was a big player in the social scene (as indolikaa puts it) and thoroughly enjoyed it, although many others don't value my input...
....I'm okay with that, I'm my own man, I can live with it
I check back as much in capturing now as I do in off topic (there was a time when I was nowhere but off topic, I felt I'd mastered my capturing/home movie transfer techniques) but have just learnt there's no real benefit in capturing broadcast TV at anything other than 352 x 576.
My point?
I've learnt if I put a little more effort in I can make my great captures into superb captures.
As I said I take a little footage of my son (and his sister, when she arrives Mar 2004) so my hobby will be ongoing.
I couldn't afford to pay for all the help I've taken from this site, nor could I begin to list the people who make this site as enjoyable as it is.
The people who piss my off?
Now that's a different matter!
Will