A number of you want to preserve old super 8 movies and/or old VHS tapes.
The first step is to get them on DVD or better, on a DVTape (*), either by you or someone else. After that is done you may want to go further by cutting some scenes, edit some lighting and even make a video montage. And why not add a menu. The Studio software is perfectly suited for this type of operation, as these DVD's are not protected.
So, if you are unfamiliar with the operation, this tutorial will help you. (*) Thanks for Joe suggestion: " I'd like to make a suggestion to re-creating 8mm, super8 or 16mm film to DVD. If you have someone else transfer your films, have them create a mini DVTape version of the films. You'll need a digital camcorder and firewire connection to copy the films to your computer. The reason for this is the DVDs that you are going to copy to your computer are in a compressed format (mpeg2/divx etc.). Once you copy them to your computer, edit and render to another version, you are essentially compressing a compressed format. Which could reduce the quality of the final video on DVD. The mini DVTape, although it has its own compressed format, stores each image as an individual frame. The resulting process will have no degradation, and editing will be much cleaner". Step 1 :
Insert your DVD while holding down the "Shift" key to prevent it from starting. Then, in the "File" menu, select Import DVD titles. |
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Step 2 :
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In the next window you will have 4 options.
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- Check for your DVD
- Select your destination folder
- Give a name to your file
- Check the video to be imported.
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Step 3 :
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Select the destination folder
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| You can accept the default folder suggested by Studio or you can pick your own. You can also create a new folder from this window. |
Step 4 :
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Create a file name and check "Title 01"
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"Video from DVD" and "Title 1" will be used by Studio for the filename.
Take note that if you insert a DVD created with Studio, you will only see ONE title (maybe two titles if you have a sequence before the menu). These "titles" do not correspond to "chapter" created in your menu.
You will notice that as soon as "Title 01" was checked, the first frame of the film is visible in viewer.
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Step 5 :
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"Importing" title DVD
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| (The word is in quotation marks import because it is not a true import). Click the Import button. A progress bar shows the progress of the operation.
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Step 6 :
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End of "importing"
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| I t's not exactly an importation but rather a conversion (VOB to MPEG). Your film is shown automatically in the album. You will notice that it is called "Video on DVD.mpg" and it is in MPEG-2
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Step 7 :
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| If you want chapters we can do that. In the "configuration" choose "Capture Source." Select the option that best suits you (I recommend the one found in brown). |
Step 8 :
Detecting scenes from video file
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Now go back and double click on the thumbnail of the movie. The detection starts with the parameters of item 7.
A progress bar keeps you informed of the operation. It may takes a while, depending of the size of your title.
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Step 9 :
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At the end of the detection, the chapters are displayed in the album, it only remains for you to do your thing.
Easy no ?
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{Thanks to Loosecannon for the fine tuning} |