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Author Topic: Converting Laser Disc to DVD Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 02-26-2010 10:42 PM                     Phil, I think your biggest problem is the ntsc to pal conversion. When I made corperate videos I had some terrible results. Not all converters are equal.  |  IP: Logged Phil Blake Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 558 From: esperance western australia Registered: Nov 2003 posted 03-02-2010 10:45 PM                        well i have since had sort of a breakthrough. I just bought one of those USB capture devices , came with Ulead video studio software. The capture results were the best yet, however my 50 minutes transfer went wrong when it had about 8 minutes to go started dropping hundreds of frames. I am wondering if it is hardware or software doing this ?  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-30-2011 08:41 AM                    Why would anyone want to do this? The beauty of a laserdisc is just that....it's a laserdisc.  |  IP: Logged Vern Dias Film Handler Posts: 28 From: AllenTX USA Registered: Apr 2009 posted 01-30-2011 06:48 PM                        Transfer it in 2 (or more) sessions with each session in it's own file, then use editing software to merge the sessions. It sounds like the PC is running low on some resource as the capture progresses, possibly virtual memory. Vern  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-10-2017 05:20 AM                 It has been 2171 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-10-2017 05:20 AM                        I came into laserdiscs for the 1995 release of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. This is the last original theatrical version and contains the Leonard Martin interview with Lucas. I don't currently own a laserdisc player, so I was wondering if any FT members have the equipment and know how to do a transfer to DVD. Obviously I would be willing to pay for the service. I also have this set on VHS, but my understanding is laserdisc is much higher quality.  |  IP: Logged Bill Brandenstein Master Film Handler Posts: 413 From: Santa Clarita, CA Registered: Jul 2013 posted 01-10-2017 11:11 AM                     Justin, I have access to everything needed, though it's not particularly convenient. The quality might be better than VHS but only by a chunk. I've had to use visual noise reduction or temporal smoothing to make my previous attempts at LD transfers look "watchable." Well, that would be true of much VHS too. DVD is just so much cleaner and twice as sharp.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-10-2017 11:44 AM                        I have a high end S/VHS player (Panasonic AG-S555) that had a professional service in 2014 before I used it to make uncompressed AVI files for archival preservation from some VHS camcorder tapes via a cheap USB capture dongle (Diamond VC500) and an old version of Adobe Premiere that was able to see the driver. I don't have an NTSC laserdisc player. I did have a PAL one, but I gave it away before leaving the UK (I only ever owned around 10 discs), figuring that the chances of ever being called upon to play a PAL disc again were so close to zero as to make it not worth the shipping. It could play NTSC discs on a PAL TV, but it didn't read and output a true NTSC signal, and nor did it do a full and genuine signal conversion to PAL-I (so you couldn't record the pseudo-PAL output): I think it just used some form of drop frame processing to f*** with the frame rate and make it work on a PAL TV when hooked up via the built in UHF modulator and an antenna cord. Using a Y/C or composite connection, my PAL TV couldn't play its output from an NTSC disc. As has been noted above, the large files (about 1.2 GB per minute of running time) created by my VHS transfers did cause a sync problem with the longer tapes (one was of a memorial service that lasted nearly two hours), so much so that I ended up needing to capture the video and audio in separate passes and then resync them. Laserdisc did have a basic resolution advantage over VHS (425 television lines vs. 240), but a lot of the final, perceived image quality to the end viewer was determined by other factors: the source material used to master the disc or tape, the quality of the mastering itself, and the signal processing in the playback machines. Both formats recorded a composite signal.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-10-2017 03:43 PM                     Justin I sent you a PM through this forum. Please let me know if you get it.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-10-2017 05:53 PM                     Ive done LD to DVD copies many times since I've got a DVD recorder. Works great.  |  IP: Logged Geoff Jones Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 579 From: Broomfield, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 01-10-2017 07:07 PM                        Google "Harmy."  |  IP: Logged

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