DVD Transfer & Authoring?

[AAR.oner]

depends on what shows they are...if there's masters floating around that have already been transferred then i would agree with them...but if its not out there in the trading pool, then it might be worth it...all depends really

there's a number of people around here that can transfer/edit/author *if* its a band they're into and no other DVD of the show exists...you can always post a thread in the Tapers' Forum with the band/date/tape generation/etc and see if ya have any takers

done and done, posted in the ISO forum

[MrRlphy]

PM me

[Unidecker]

email me. unidecker AT gmail DOT com

i'm into trading DVD's of shows of the bands from around here and was wondering if anyone knew any programs or anything that are useful to create menu's and chapters on DVD's

[retired]

TMPGEnc 1.6
its good, but a limited softwear in that u can not add music to the menu/song select pages and creating a credits page does not appear to be an option. maybe i just havnt figured these options out yet.

DVD architect 3.0, u can definitely do the music on the pages as well as create a credits page w/ it.

peeps that really know what they're doing use TMPGEnc or something like it to do the chaptering, then use Architect to do the menu's...good luck

[mnm6677]

I have been trying to sync one of my recent videos to the sbd audio and cant seem to figure it out and was hoping someone could give me some suggestions. I am using vegas 6.0, dvd architect and sound forge 7. I know how to stretch video but cant seem to get them both together. Any help would be appricated. Thank you in advance.

[wuhoo]

I always like to find a down beat, or somewhere where the drummer hits a symbol, and align using that.... zoom in on the drummer hitting the symbol, look and listen for that sound, align, and you should be good to go..

[mnm6677]

Thank you wuhoo I will give that a try.

[AAR.oner]

i would try what wuhoo says *before* adjusting the speed of the video...then you can see if any speed adjust is necessary first..hopefully it'll just be a matter of moving the two on the timeline to sync, and no rate changes

[ChrisF]

in vegas i usually just look at the waveforms for the sbd audio and camcorder audio and match up similarities by eye.

then i find a spot that looks very clear and zoom in as far as i can and i align them. rather than stretching or messing around with the speed i go to the 30 minute mark (if its a 1 hour tape) and i align it there.

it will start out and end the tape slightly out of sync, but usually for an hours worth of video you cant see it go in and out of sync because its so slight. if you want you can split up the clip and repeat the process at every 10 min mark or between songs but thats not always necessary.

i usually deal with multi camera recordings, so i just resync wherever i feel like it when another camera angle is being shown.

[budtastic]

I've never done this before, but would like to resynch up a DVD i downloaded here with SBD audio. Is this a tough task? I've been trying to do some research but could use a little help. I think I need to convert the files to .mp4 or something and the audio into .wav? Also, the .VOB files are split into 3 files. Will this work ok? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[LazyTaper]

Use TMPGenc Xpress. Demultiplex the .vob to .m2v and .wav. Then Remultiplex the two elementary streams to mpeg2. Vegas will recognize the resulatant .mpg file.

[budtastic]

OK cool thanks I'll try that.

[81tiger04]

Ok, here's what I'm trying to do ...

I have a VHS tape from a couple years ago and would like to convert it to DVD. I know I cannot personally do this but can anyone steer me in the direction of where I should go to get this done? I just need to know if there's a place I can take it that will convert the VHS tape to DVD for me.

After that, I want to take the DVD and get a screen shot (like I see in many of the video threads). I then want to take that screen shot, get it developed, and frame it for a very special birthday present. Would I be able to do capture the screen shot using my personal computer (imac G5)? If not, where could I go to get this done?

This is something that really means a lot to me. PLEASE HELP!