Capturing from a Laserdisc

[thephantomlord]

Hi All,

I would like to capture my small laser disc collection (mainly Star Wars) and eventually transfer it to DVD. My question is at what resolution would you recommend capturing at? I know that laserdisc resolution is not as high as DVD so I would prefer to only capture at the highest that laserdisc supports. Then when I convert the AVI to MPG I'll change the resolution to the DVD standard.

thanks, Thephantomlord

[TerryToonz]

I capture laserdiscs at 640x480 but this is probably overkill.

[sommersby]

I do the same, 640x480 using pickvideo set at 20, I get great results, almost as good as a dvd rip.

[chafford100]

Hi,

I have the DVD's of star wars which I bought when I was travelling. When I pulled up the resolution in a DVD ripping program it was 720x288. Yep 288. However, the quality is great, really crisp. The DVD also comes with a 5.1 soundtrack. The DVD is also single sided single layer presumably because of the 288 vertical resolution requiring alot less storage. If you want more details I can check.

[stanwebber]

it is possible to loose an insignificant to small amount of detail at 480x480 depending on your source(laserdisc is analog). 640x480 rules out any question of lost detail

[smokin*1]

Why not capture it at whatever framesize you plan on encoding it to? That's probably what I would do, but then again, that doesn't mean much

[thephantomlord]

Thanks for the suggestions all.. I'll try capturing at 480x480 & 640x480 and compare the results. Hopefully 480x480 will do it since I'm trying to conserve disk space until I convert to Mpeg.