From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #293 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, August 10 2005 Volume 04 : Number 293 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:20:18 -0400 From: Frank Coleman Subject: Re: seven-seas Bunnymen dvd The rights issues would be a hornet's nest, for sure, and I think you are probably right, Stu -- it'll never see the light of day unless there's a fairly massive resurgence of interest. Briefly, the best/easiest process involved with making one's own dvd goes something like this (we're about to get into geek land here, folks, so apologies in advance): - - Convert all video content to mini-DV. Assuming the original content is on VHS, the best you'd get will be a slightly soft rendition of the VHS, can't make it look any better than the source, and VHS is the worst case scenario. That's why it would be so much better if it were done from the original masters. (sigh) - - Capture mini-DV content to a computer via firewire. This can be done on a PC or Mac, but I am most familiar with the Mac platform, so my comments skew somewhat in that direction. - - When you capture, you have to specify a "codec" via whatever capturing tool one is using -- most easily thought of as a "flavor" of compression. Best bet is to use QuickTime's DV codec as that's identical to the format of the mini-DV tape with no generational loss. - - There is a specific set of criteria the video must conform to in order to be useable as dvd video. For US players, it is the NTSC spec, which is 720 pixels wide by 480 pixels high by 72 dots per inch, at 29,97 frames per second, with the audio track being 48 kHz, 16-bit stereo. Accept no deviations (unless it's in PAL (UK) format, and...well, you can look that up on Google. - - You would need a very large, very fast hard drive in order to do this. An hour of video is about 30 gigabytes of space, plus you need room to edit, convert and recompress before making the dvd, so upwards of 100 GB is not outlandish. Fortunately, these can be had for a few hundred dollars these days. The hard drive should ideally be rated at no less than 7200 RPM, although my G4 Powerbook uses a 5400 RPM drive and I make dvds on it all the time. - - After capturing the video, edit it in something like Premiere or Apple's Final Cut Pro. In Final Cut, you can add named markers to the timeline which can be automatically converted to menu items in DVD Studio Pro. Note that I said TIMELINE markers, it's also possible (and confusing) to put in clip markers which are useless when it comes to menus. - - When the editing is done, you have to export the whole shebang as an MPEG-2 clip, with a separate audio track in AIF (Mac) or WAV (PC) format. The audio has to be converted to AC-3 format to save space on the disk. There are many tools online to handle this. - - The MPEG video and AC-3 audio have to be brought together into a dvd authoring program, such as Apple's DVD Studio Pro. Where you lay out the menus, link up the buttons and test all the connections. I'm glossing over a lot here. - - You then export the whole thing one more time to a folder on your computer called "VIDEO_TS", which conforms to the rigid DVD spec -- this is handled by your DVD authoring program. This folder is playable off your hard drive as if it were an inserted DVD, and in fact, that's what you burn to disc and play on your TV. There -- that wasn't so hard was it? (grinning, ducking and running...) There are oodles of tutorials about all this stuff online for those who are truly interested. Thank goodness... best, FBC F R A N K _ C O L E M A N Designer > Developer > Drummer Interactive > Online > TV > Video > Audio > Print Founder and CEO > Intravenous TeleVision > http://www.ivtv.com Portfolio > 21st Century Art > http://www.21ca.com Member > Bentmen > http://www.bentmen.com Chairman > Web Development Sub-Committee > Advanced Media Committee > National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences > http://www.nynatas.org/newmedia/ ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:03:11 -0500 From: Theodore Turner Subject: Re: seven-seas Bunnymen dvd on 8/9/05 7:20 PM, Frank Coleman at fbc@21ca.com wrote: > The rights issues would be a hornet's nest, for sure, and I think you > are probably right, Stu -- it'll never see the light of day unless > there's a fairly massive resurgence of interest. Would the success of the re-issues not be more of a market indicator than the new stuff? I see a lot of other retrospective dvd's out there from bands who have skipped thru a couple of lables. But I follow, ie (sadly) you will never truly get a "best of" REM DVD as Warner cant use the IRS stuff/vice versa, so the wonderful VHS stalwart "REM: Succumbs" may be doomed to an (official) analogue death,But would Warner not have the rights to everything Bunnymen up to Flowers ? This is where I'm lost. Even if we're just looking a straight run of the singles, It must exist, plz keep the names coming, cant hurt to try this. Ted ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:04:16 -0700 From: Charles Pham Subject: seven-seas US Tourdates - So.Cal only According to Ticketmaster, 2 tour dates have been announced for Southern California. 12/6 House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA - $25 + fees Tickets for the general public begins Saturday September 3rd @ 10am PST. MT PRESALE: Start: Tue, 08/30/05 10:00 AM PDT End: Sat, 09/03/05 10:00 PM PDT BEST BUY PRESALE: Start: Wed, 08/31/05 10:00 AM PDT End: Fri, 09/02/05 10:00 PM PDT 12/7 House of Blues, Anahieim, CA - $28 + fees Tickets for the general public begins Saturday August 27th @ 10am PST. HOB MEMBER PRESALE: Start: Tue, 08/23/05 10:00 AM PDT End: Fri, 08/26/05 10:00 PM PDT http://www.bunnymen.info/ ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #293 ********************************