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<blockquote data-quote="RobDreugan" data-source="post: 31720"><p>The first thing you need to do is find a way to take the Beta tape and transfer the tapes into a format that you can capture on to your mac. Or at least you need to tell him, there's nothing short of a professional studio that has millions to spend, that would have a beta deck hooked into a system in such a way that you could capture footage.</p><p></p><p>That's your first step, get it on a format that you can capture the show on to your mac. Most likely the easiest way would be to put it on MiniDV so that you can import from a camera. </p><p></p><p>Bottomline you need to find a way to get it to your hard drive via firewire.</p><p></p><p>If you're really just a webdesigner you're pretty much completely over your head into this. </p><p></p><p>1. Dvd studio pro really would be best for full dvd control, but you can get away with using IDVD; just be sure to take the apple watermark off at least.</p><p></p><p>2. You need to know more about video, you wouldn't compress video if your intent was to deliever it via DVD. You let the software do that when it goes to burn the DVD. You always want to keep your media as uncompressed as possible, in order to not lose any quality.</p><p></p><p>3. Going to the web with it.</p><p></p><p>a) I don't know how long it was going to be. You said they are 30 minute episodes, but he only wants to give them a teaser? Which how long would that be?</p><p></p><p>b) To Stream a 30 minute episode is not a problem, but it's a huge file size. For a cable/dsl etc it won't matter as much, but you're looking at least 100 megs and that's with some pretty heavy compression.</p><p></p><p>-To stream a 30 minute episode for a dial up user, is an effort in futility. You either have to sacrafice the quality of video, audio, resolution or bit rate. In theory you'd have to sacrafice the quality of all them to compress it down enough to where someone would even attempt to get it over a modem.</p><p></p><p>I've never tried to stream something as long as 30 minutes, but know that it's completely unlikely that you could create a 30 minute file that was enjoyable to watch or hear, that would still be worth a dial-up users' to download. I'd be shocked if it were under 30 megs with a high level of compression and a small resolution.</p><p></p><p>Again I'm estimating.</p><p></p><p>(As far as using real media, my personal feeling is that it's a pretty inconvienent one to use. .WMV and quick time are pretty much free to use and encode with, whereas you have to pay for the real media software to encode, and users who would download the player are prompted to buy it etc..)</p><p></p><p>.wmv or .mov/.mp4 would be a good way to go. </p><p></p><p>Wow, that's a mouthful.</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps some.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RobDreugan, post: 31720"] The first thing you need to do is find a way to take the Beta tape and transfer the tapes into a format that you can capture on to your mac. Or at least you need to tell him, there's nothing short of a professional studio that has millions to spend, that would have a beta deck hooked into a system in such a way that you could capture footage. That's your first step, get it on a format that you can capture the show on to your mac. Most likely the easiest way would be to put it on MiniDV so that you can import from a camera. Bottomline you need to find a way to get it to your hard drive via firewire. If you're really just a webdesigner you're pretty much completely over your head into this. 1. Dvd studio pro really would be best for full dvd control, but you can get away with using IDVD; just be sure to take the apple watermark off at least. 2. You need to know more about video, you wouldn't compress video if your intent was to deliever it via DVD. You let the software do that when it goes to burn the DVD. You always want to keep your media as uncompressed as possible, in order to not lose any quality. 3. Going to the web with it. a) I don't know how long it was going to be. You said they are 30 minute episodes, but he only wants to give them a teaser? Which how long would that be? b) To Stream a 30 minute episode is not a problem, but it's a huge file size. For a cable/dsl etc it won't matter as much, but you're looking at least 100 megs and that's with some pretty heavy compression. -To stream a 30 minute episode for a dial up user, is an effort in futility. You either have to sacrafice the quality of video, audio, resolution or bit rate. In theory you'd have to sacrafice the quality of all them to compress it down enough to where someone would even attempt to get it over a modem. I've never tried to stream something as long as 30 minutes, but know that it's completely unlikely that you could create a 30 minute file that was enjoyable to watch or hear, that would still be worth a dial-up users' to download. I'd be shocked if it were under 30 megs with a high level of compression and a small resolution. Again I'm estimating. (As far as using real media, my personal feeling is that it's a pretty inconvienent one to use. .WMV and quick time are pretty much free to use and encode with, whereas you have to pay for the real media software to encode, and users who would download the player are prompted to buy it etc..) .wmv or .mov/.mp4 would be a good way to go. Wow, that's a mouthful. Hope that helps some. [/QUOTE]
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