Star Wars mid 1980s tv airing to DVD
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Star Wars mid 1980s tv airing to DVD
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2015-06-11, 09:01 PM
It seems I could spend $1000 fast. My wife would kill me. I do want to try my shot at it with what I have available. Thanks for your help. If I get the tapes, I will try to post an update. Do you think Virtual dub would be the best program to start with?
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2015-06-11, 09:13 PM
For video capture, go for it! It's the best solution, but you must choose carefully the settings!
 
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2015-06-12, 12:18 AM
(2015-06-11, 09:01 PM)lipscgr Wrote: It seems I could spend $1000 fast. My wife would kill me. I do want to try my shot at it with what I have available. Thanks for your help. If I get the tapes, I will try to post an update. Do you think Virtual dub would be the best program to start with? Yeah, wifes are the worst nightmare for preservations. When i had to transfer all of my old VHS tapes (movies and rare tv shows from the early 90s) in DVD, i fried up a half dozen of players... she really tried to kill me...
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2015-06-12, 02:24 PM
The biggest problem will be the time it takes to edit a film. I have four children and work 50 hours a week. There is not much time so I have to chose wisely. I figure transferring would be quick and easy.
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2015-06-12, 09:01 PM
(2015-06-12, 02:24 PM)lipscgr Wrote: The biggest problem will be the time it takes to edit a film. I have four children and work 50 hours a week. There is not much time so I have to chose wisely. I figure transferring would be quick and easy. You're right, editing this stuff takes much time... 90% of that is struggling against files, converters and software... -_- 
2015-06-15, 12:52 AM
I disagree, old TV recordings are not always awesome. Unless there is new audio or video, TV broadcasts are just byte/bandwidth wasters.
I have a feeling this old TV Star Wars recording falls into the byte/bandwidth waster category and of course, you can disagree and don't even have to provide a reason for disagreement. (2015-06-10, 06:16 PM)Feallan Wrote: Old TV recordings are always awesome.
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2015-06-15, 02:30 PM
I think he means that they are nostalgic. It of course is nostalgic to me as it was aired in 1984, and is in original unaltered form. It is not blu-ray quality, but has its own charm to it. It is awesome in its own right for what it is. It is a piece of history that is preserved.
Anyway I did get the VHS, and has surprisingly good color for being home recorded over 30 years ago. My VCR is not the greatest and there are some tracking problems, but I will try to rip it to DVD and see what happens.
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2015-06-17, 02:51 PM
I did start to copy my star wars tape last night. The player that I have is definitely lacking in quality. Also unfortunately the disc was set for only a 2 hour record, and stopped in the middle. Also during the rope swing seen onboard the deathstar there was a severe weather warning at the bottom. I did enjoy the commercials though. I will retry it in a few days and change the length on the DVD to 4hrs per DVD.
I may look into the Panasonic AG1980. I am just going to have to resurrect my old homebuilt HTPC. It is in need of some updates. Any suggestions on the best video capture card to go with this player? Also is S-video or RCA the best way to go? I always thought signal leakage and interference would be minimized with an all-in-1 recorder.
*Generally*, can 2 separate devices within *low-mid* *consumer* price range produce a better VHS-->DVD conversion than say, a *low-mid-priced* *consumer* VHS-DVD-Recorder set-top box? Also, depending on how the 2 separate devices are set-up, don't you lose the closed-caption encoding when doing the conversion from VHS->DVD? CC are preserved in my all-in-1 VHS->DVD converter set-top box and I think most VHS->DVD all-in-1 set-top boxes preserve CC encoding. I care about preserving CC encoding and hope everyone else does too because this is about preservation. I don't think it's about nostalgia, and if so, then just watch 80's commercials on YouTube, there is no reason to preserve this because there is nothing unique to preserve. I just don't understand. (2015-06-15, 02:30 PM)lipscgr Wrote: I think he means that they are nostalgic. It of course is nostalgic to me as it was aired in 1984, and is in original unaltered form. It is not blu-ray quality, but has its own charm to it. It is awesome in its own right for what it is. It is a piece of history that is preserved.
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2015-06-19, 04:07 PM
It is nostalgia to me. I watched this exact tape while I was a kid, and don't want it to rot away. It is not likely of any interest to anyone else, and I don't intend it to be and don't plan on sharing it as it is available on MS.
Actually if you watch it, there is some commentary by Mark Hamill, as well as George Lucas that is unique to the TV airing. There some introduction to the filming of the movie, albeit small so there is something unique to the TV airing. This is mostly a learning curve for me to conquer to get the best quality transfer of something that I have on hand. Do you think that it is better on an all-in-one to record on 2 hour setting and use 2 DVDs and splice it together, or is it better to record on 4hr setting to get all of the video on one disc? Anyway, I did get my PC up and running and plan on buying a Panasonic AG 1980 soon. I figure this is something that can get me started. I am looking into building a new PC as well. |
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