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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Video Editing Fetish Continues I have encoded four of nine video tapes so far from our wedding. Yes, you read correctly, there are a total of nine tapes: four are standard Digital 8 tapes and five are miniDV tapes. Of the four Digital 8 tapes, two of them were actually recorded as Hi8, which isn't actually pure video. Hi8 is analog. Great thing about Sony Digtial 8 camcorders is they can play Hi8/8 tapes, which is great for me, since I can capture those videos via firewire. My next task is to capture the miniDV tapes, so I'm on the lookout for a miniDV camcorder with a firewire output. If anybody has one, I'd like to borrow it for about a week. My most daunting task is going to be to figure out where to store the HUGE avi files. Each hour of DV video encodes into a 13 gig avi file. I'm encoding directly to my RAID-0 dual 74 GB 10K Raptors, since the transfer rate is lightning fast. No worries about lost frames or any HD-related bottlenecks in the capturing and encoding process. But if you do the math... I'm going to need 143 GB of free HD space. The Raptors are not going to be enough, so I'm going to have to free up some space on my external 250 MB HD that I use for backups. And at this point, I don't even know if it's physically possible to have 143 GB of data (two of the avi files are 26 GB, since Hi8 stores two hours of video vs. one hour on Digital8), sitting in one spot in a video encoding application like Pinnacle Studio or Sony Vegas. I have already started to rule out using Pinnacle Studio to make the wedding video. It's a great app if all you're doing is making a DVD of one tape. However, as I stated above, I'm going to have nine different feeds, which means 18 different tracks (video plus audio). I think Sony Vegas is the only app that will let me have multiple channels. I'm not even sure if Adobe Premier is as capable as Sony Vegas. And Sony Vegas is going to stall me slightly since there will be a huge learning curve. I know how to make videos using Pinnacle Studio. And I've made videos on Adobe Premier. So it shouldn't be too bad. I just hate learning apps from scratch. I wish I worked in a video editing place so I could learn from the experts. No... maybe I should have just paid the $1500 and had our wedding done professionally... No... I'm a professional! I'll do it myself and at the same time learn a new app! Long live HUGE hard drives! posted by Dino at 3:37 PM (permanent link)
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