This is a place to discuss the trials and tribulations of digital video, the editing, types of hardware and software available, and personal choices of same.
Not interested in home made Porn (at least not here), so Paris Hilton can go elsewhere. There are many many sites available for that.
I use ULead Video 7 and Pinnacle Studio 8 for editing and rendering and Nero 6.0 to create the discs.
Video Standards (transmission)
PAL - Stands for
Phase Alternating Line, the dominant television standard in Europe, and those parts of Asia once under the control of the Brits (Singapore, Malaysia, etc.). Frame Rate is
24 frames per second (fps).
NTSC - Short for
National Television Standards Committee, the body that defined television standards for North America. Also used in Japan and Taiwan in Asia. Frame rate is
29.97 frames per second (fps).
Since almost every player plays NTSC (all of the ones I've seen to date) I only create in NTSC. Makes it easier than trying to remember which standard you happen to be working in.
Video Standards (disc)
VCD Video size 352X240, MPEG-1, Video datarate 1150kbps, Audio sampled at 44.1khz, Audio datarate 224kbps
63 minutes per disc
S-VCD Video size 480X480, MPEG-2, Video datarate 2400 kbps, Audio sampled at 44.1khz, Audio datarate 224kbps
32 minutes per disc
DVD Video size 720X480, MPEG-2, Video datarate 6000kbps, Audio sampled at 48khz, Audio datarate 224kbps
59 minutes per 4.7 GB disc
Thanks to Sexton O Blake for pointing it out...here's a good site for technical details of various video formats:
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/
Please, let's leave politics, spam and rudeness at the door.
Thanks
