[olug] Editing and reburning home-made DVDs.

[Craig Wolf]

Ok, let the flame war begin BUT have you thought about using a Mac??
 
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>>> Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> 11/24/2009 >>>
A friend of mine sent this question to me:
== begin ==
I made copies of many VHS home movies onto DVDs.  Most of these VHS
tapes were recorded between 25 and 30 years ago in LP or SLP mode (4
or 6 hour), so the quality was marginal at best.  I did the copying
using a consumer VHS->DVD copier.  The copier had three modes, XP, SP,
and LP (1, 2, and 4 hour modes).   I chose SP mode.

The copy quality was decent and nicely preserved the original VHS
movies.  However, I'd like to rip the new DVDs to PC file format so
that I can edit them (splice, make titles, chapters, etc.) and then
burn them back onto DVD.  As you might imagine, this poses an array of
choices such as codec, sample rates, compression formats.

I ripped the DVDs using the Xvid AVI codec that came with my ripper
utility.  Xvid is usually ranked highest in quality.  However, when I
burn the results back to DVD using Windows DVD Maker, there's too much
quality loss / pixilization when I compare against the original DVD
copy.

I'm torn right now between abandoning my attempts at editing and just
cloning the copied DVDs.  But I'd prefer to edit if I can.

Does anyone have suggestions for the best codec to use?  Best software
to make this happen?  I'll take any advice!
== end ==

Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers I can throw his way?
He's a Linux user too, so if there is a great tool you'd recommend to
use under there he would easily be able to use it.

Dan
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