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Making VCDs with AlchemyTV?
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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I am planning to buy a PowerMac G5 later this summer, and one of the things I would like to do is convert old VHS movies to VCD. I have read about Miglia AlchemyTV - is this a good solution for this purpose? Can I record directly to mpeg-1 352x288 or will I have to use another format (which?) and another resolution (which?) and then convert it (how? ffmpegX? how long will this take?).
Thanks. 
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Join Date: May 2002
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afaik, you can record directly into mpeg1 standard; and connect your vhs player to the card.
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a vcd needs a little more then a mpeg1 file (mastering; menus etc, sizzle is a nice tool handling that)
what i would do is buying toast 6; it will pobably recognize your card as an input device.
with a g5 this should work in realtime.... 
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Originally posted by k_munic:
afaik, you can record directly into mpeg1 standard; and connect your vhs player to the card.
but:
a vcd needs a little more then a mpeg1 file (mastering; menus etc, sizzle is a nice tool handling that)
True, but I guess it'll still be faster than capturing the video in e.g. MPEG-4 and then have to convert it.
However, I just realized that while AlchemyTV is said to support all QuickTime formats, QuickTime can't export to MPEG-1. Does this mean that it, after all, is impossible to record in MPEG-1 with AlchemyTV? It also seems impossible to edit MPEG-1 files with QT Pro, so if I want to edit the movie before making a VCD of it maybe recording to MPEG-1 would be a bad idea even though it was possible. I really don't know anything about this, I am a total newbie. Can someone enlighten me? 
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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I have an earlier version of that card, branded "Televio," but I'm pretty sure it hasn't changed all that much, and I pretty sure you can't capture directly to MPEG-1. You should probably get an EyeTV. It seems to be a good product, and the only reason I didn't consider it is exactly because it captures in MPEG-1; I wanted something higher quality. It also comes with some highly praised software for editing the MPEG-1 content after you capture.
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