Video Recording/Playback/Editing/Converting/etc.

cori wrote:I've tried working on that drama over 4 times and still it came out like crap (purple shading, weird glitches, etc.) so I'm wondering if it's the video file itself. Stupid me hasn't checked the actual video on my computer, so I shall do that when I'm home.

Is it one particular episode or all of them?

Try to isolate the problem by removing/substituting episodes...

bmwracer wrote:
Is it one particular episode or all of them?

Try to isolate the problem by removing/substituting episodes...

Well, all the episodes have tha purple shading during certain points of the drama, which gets a bit annoying. The weird glitch with silence happened at the end of the 5th episode with my first try and was ok the second time. And during the second try, towards the ending of the 8th episode, it started slowing down and stopping in one area. There were those colored blocks and glitching as well. That was probably a bad encoding/burn.

I'll have to try this again, but I want to concentrate on the series that seems to be working first.

cori wrote:

Well, all the episodes have tha purple shading during certain points of the drama, which gets a bit annoying. The weird glitch with silence happened at the end of the 5th episode with my first try and was ok the second time. And during the second try, towards the ending of the 8th episode, it started slowing down and stopping in one area. There were those colored blocks and glitching as well. That was probably a bad encoding/burn.

I'll have to try this again, but I want to concentrate on the series that seems to be working first.

What drama is it? Maybe you have dud eps, like beem said. Or perhaps it's been encoded with an odd codec that you don't have on your comp.

cori wrote:Well, all the episodes have tha purple shading during certain points of the drama, which gets a bit annoying. The weird glitch with silence happened at the end of the 5th episode with my first try and was ok the second time. And during the second try, towards the ending of the 8th episode, it started slowing down and stopping in one area. There were those colored blocks and glitching as well. That was probably a bad encoding/burn.

I'll have to try this again, but I want to concentrate on the series that seems to be working first.

Uh, how many episodes are you trying to jam onto one disc? :sweat:

Anime Dad wrote:

What drama is it? Maybe you have dud eps, like beem said. Or perhaps it's been encoded with an odd codec that you don't have on your comp.

Love Generation. Downloaded it from D-addicts.

bmwracer wrote:
Uh, how many episodes are you trying to jam onto one disc? :sweat:

4 episodes on one disc. Is that too much? It worked for all of the other dramas I've done.

cori wrote:4 episodes on one disc. Is that too much? It worked for all of the other dramas I've done.

Not sure.

You could try three and see if you get better results. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Not sure.

You could try three and see if you get better results. :sweat:

I usually do 4 with no problems, but I guess cori's could be different...

Anime Dad wrote:I usually do 4 with no problems, but I guess cori's could be different...

Three is my max... But it depends on the original source.

Something must be screwy with one (or more) of the Love Gen files she's using... :sweat:

I guess I'll try 3 episodes per disc for that series, but I'm thinking that it's the files that's corrupted. If so, I've been wasting my time for nothing. :grumble:

cori wrote:I guess I'll try 3 episodes per disc for that series, but I'm thinking that it's the files that's corrupted. If so, I've been wasting my time for nothing. :grumble:

Are the files okay when you view each them as is, i.e., before conversion?

bmwracer wrote:
Are the files okay when you view each them as is, i.e., before conversion?

Um, I haven't watched them on my computer yet. *dodges nut-filled cookies* :sweat:

cori wrote:Um, I haven't watched them on my computer yet.

Well, now you've got something to do. :)

bmwracer wrote:
Well, now you've got something to do. :)

Yeah, probably tomorrow though because I'm not going to be home till about 10pm tonight. :(

cori wrote:Yeah, probably tomorrow though because I'm not going to be home till about 10pm tonight. :(

Party on, cori...! :victory: :applaud:


And on a school night, too.... :victory:

update on Tmpgenc DVD Author version 3. Finally got a later version of the 3 series with all problems fixed. So far I'm pretty much awed. But, I imported a subtitle stream along with it's AVI file. The virgin subs worked fine but as yet they have not developed any options (that I could find) for setting the font size, color and location. So that's a bust. Even so, since it accepts an AVI file, I'm going to run a time line on taking a subbed AVI file out of Virtual Dub Mod and compare it to first comverting it to MPG and then creating the DVD with the old Tmpgenc DVD author.
Stay tuned.
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I found out why my Haken no Hinkaku subs went out. It appears there's 12 seconds of the video file missing, right after the opening credits. Looks like someone cut out the bit where the advertising is :banghead: Now I have to try to work out a way to re-sync the subtitles :banghead:

Anime Dad wrote:I found out why my Haken no Hinkaku subs went out. It appears there's 12 seconds of the video file missing, right after the opening credits. Looks like someone cut out the bit where the advertising is :banghead: Now I have to try to work out a way to re-sync the subtitles :banghead:

Which episode(s)?

I didn't notice any irregularity... :sweat:

Ep 2., sofar.

But you got yours from Geez, ne? Mine came from Veoh.

Anime Dad wrote:Ep 2., sofar.

But you got yours from Geez, ne? Mine came from Veoh.

So ka...

Do you want me to send you my authored version?

bmwracer wrote:
So ka...

Do you want me to send you my authored version?

Hmm.

Tempting.