Question about uploading VHS footage to a CPU.

Captain Dynamite · Post by **Captain Dynamite** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:30 pm

If you edit an anime music video with a VCR, and dub music over it with a DVD player, and you copy the VHS footage to a DVD, can you copy DVD footage to your hard drive? Just curious.

mforman · Post by **mforman** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:50 pm

Can't see why not, as long as the DVD recorder adheres to the various standards. If the DVD can be played in a normal DVD player, a computer should be able to rip it using Smartripper (or similar.) It would be easier to just get a video capture card though and edit the clips using Premiere (or similar), or failing that just record the VHS clips you want to use to DVD then rip and edit in Premiere...

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:49 pm

This thread's topic wrote:uploading VHS footage to a CPU.

*is still waiting for that CPU with a 100MB L2 cache that DW was talking about a few months ago*

Captain Dynamite · Post by **Captain Dynamite** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:19 pm

How do you add text with information on the song in the lower left corner like on MTV and VH1? eg, for example:

Skid Row
Eileen
Subhuman Race
Atlantic Records

That kinda thing. How do you do that?

Maverick-Rubik · Post by **Maverick-Rubik** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:23 pm

For Premiere...

Make the image with an opaque background of what you want to writing to be in a resolution of 720 x 480 and import it. Then put a Chroma Key filter on it and transparency-ify the opaque coloring.

Or, use Title located in File > Title.

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:30 pm

Maverick7013 wrote:For Premiere...

Make the image with an opaque background of what you want to writing to be in a resolution of 720 x 480 and import it. Then put a Chroma Key filter on it and transparency-ify the opaque coloring.

Or, use Title located in File > Title.

Well if your using photoshop to edit the image, thats not nesisary, Just make the text on a new layer, and when you import it, import the Text layer. It will ask you in a dialog box when you import it. The background will then be transparent automatically, And the text will scale much nicer aswell if you use a Text layer in the PSD file and not save it as a single layer image such as JPG or BMP. THis is the best way to do it in Primiere using Photoshop as the image editor. Its also possible with Gimp (and any other image editor that lets you save in PSD format)

I think Premiere also has a title function, but I've never used it.

Captain Dynamite · Post by **Captain Dynamite** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 5:33 pm

Okay, how do you edit footage, like remove footage from before and after a current point? And HOW do you reduce the file size to ALOT less than 235 megabytes?????!!!!!!