Antonia Ellis Interview -- Thoughts?

Hi all,

Well, by now I assume that at least a few brave souls
have downloaded that 27 megabyte interview with
Antonia Ellis and listened to it. Any thoughts on
it?

Meanwhile, the making of the DVD of this interview
is going slowly but surely. Since I'm using
software that I've never used before, I'm having
some unexpected surprises, in things not working
the way I expected, and software crashing the
entire computer for unknown reasons. Also, this
is all using up a lot more disk space and computer
time than I ever would have imagined -- the hour
long interview in DVD format is in a 13 gigabyte
file, and any video/audio processing takes a
long time! For example, I'm in the midst of
encoding the video into MPEG-2 for the DVD,
and with all the high-quality settings on,
the encoding is expected to take 40 hours!!!
(I first tried a simpler and faster encoder
that only took 2 hours, but I wasn't happy
with the results)

Marc

Marc,

I have just bought some additions to my home pc to convert my VHS
tapes to DVD and that 13 Gig sounds far too large as only 4.7 Gig
will fit on a single layer disc. Also the little USB add on that I
have bought for the job will record straight to the DVD drive as the
tape is playing - so 1hr of tape takes 1 hr of recording time. I
think you may have to sacrifice the quality as my instructions say
that there if you record at over 9mb/sec it won't be a "legal"
setting as DVD players won't accept it.

Regards,
Barry


--- In [hidden email], "Marc Martin" <marc@u...> wrote:
> Hi all,-- the hour
> long interview in DVD format is in a 13 gigabyte
> file,
> the encoding is expected to take 40 hours!!!

> I have just bought some additions to my home pc to convert my VHS
> tapes to DVD and that 13 Gig sounds far too large as only 4.7 Gig
> will fit on a single layer disc.

Yes, I made a typo there -- the video downloaded from the camcorder
was in "DV" format (not "DVD"), and this runs about 13 gigs per hour.
Converting to the MPEG-2 would make this about 2 gigs per hour,
so that a 2-hour movie would fit on a 4 gig DVD.

> Also the little USB add on that I
> have bought for the job will record straight to the DVD drive as the
> tape is playing - so 1hr of tape takes 1 hr of recording time.