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animejump

fall down go boom

May 19, 2009 16:55

Okay, I have a couple of VHS tapes to dump for the con this weekend. So let's fire up the DVD recorder, and... shit, it's broken. Stopped working entirely. What brilliant timing.

Okay, well, I can just buy a new recorder. Oh wait, I can't, because they've apparently stopped selling DVD recorders unless I want to drop $300 on the single DVD-VHS ( Read more... )

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jsevakis May 19 2009, 21:16:59 UTC

I prefer the analog bridge method, as it allows you to do some intermediate filtering and produce some much nicer looking DVDs. At any rate, the regular set-top DVD recorders never really sold all that well. People tend to use DVRs to time-shift, and computers to edit and burn home movies. That leaves little else they're good for.

NewEgg has an open-box Pana for $170, and a new one with the VCR built in for $187, if that helps you.

animejump May 20 2009, 05:22:44 UTC

Can you explain what you mean by intermediate filtering? I have no video processing-fu at all. I scrape through by using the camcorder to import footage into Adobe Premiere, and then either making a linear program (for DVD and laptop, because one of them is bound to break) or a bunch of little clips to drop into a slideshow that will play on multiple platforms. Getting footage from DVDs is marginally more annoying, as I tend to use DVDshrink to rip clips as tiny ISOs, mount them with daemontools, and then rip them to MPEG with Tsunami MPEG encoder.

I'm 100% sure there are about 500 better was of doing this, but it's worked for me in the past and I have a history of having video assembly for panels going horribly, terribly wrong at the absolute last minute.

jsevakis May 19 2009, 21:19:47 UTC

Actually, fuck that. Amazon has a Toshiba DVD-R + VHS for $152 and a Sony for $100.

tohoscope May 19 2009, 21:24:11 UTC

Shipped by Amazon? Or is it a Marketplace sale?

jsevakis May 19 2009, 21:27:34 UTC

Here's the Toshiba: http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-DVR620-DVD-Recorder-Black/dp/B001T6K7G6/
It's not a Marketplace sale, but it's fulfilled by Electronics Expo. Not elgible for Amazon Prime, unfortunately.

Forget the Sony, it's a lemon. Every review is negative.

tohoscope May 19 2009, 21:30:41 UTC

You read my mind. Thanks.

tohoscope May 19 2009, 21:25:09 UTC

Crap. I knew I shoulda bought an extra VHS to DVD combo recorder when I had the chance.

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animejump May 20 2009, 05:19:32 UTC

A 'bit' of cash? Dude, if I could get a VHS-to-DVD box that featured noise reduction, time-base correction, and PAL-NTSC capability, I would pay $999 for that shit, no lie. It would be nice if they'd throw in macrovision-ignoring, as well, because I still have issues with that occasionally.

And I'd buy the warranty. Because that sort of thing would come in handy about... oh... NOW.

tacohime May 20 2009, 04:09:26 UTC

Our is working, and it's not like we're going to need it from tomorrow until next Monday... call Christian in the morning?

animejump May 20 2009, 05:16:57 UTC

Thanks for the offer, but I've already dumped most of the clips I needed via camcorder. It was kind of awkward, but it got the job done.

Dubs that Time Forgot is good to go. Now to try and find the best clips from those gnarly Cyborg 009 movies and The Flying Ghost Ship for the Anime cinema panel, and try to figure out what I want to do for hell (mainly arranging a playlist, as there are hours of material) aside from mixing Superbook and Farting Televangelist together.