No1MuppetFan
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Does anyone know if the season box set will be released anywhere overseas?
Producing DVDs can take a long, long time. I taped (using a prosumer Mini-DV camera) my amateur radio club's September meeting, 80 minutes' worth of video, it took almost 30 *hours* to process on my (admittedly fairly low-end by today's standards but top of the line when it was built) computer to convert from the digital format my camera uses to the format that is used on DVDs. That's also just taking the tape and dumping it onto a DVD, without any special processing, adding titles, chapters etc.Mokey Fraggle said:I had my older sister call HIT Entertainment today about the Fraggle Rock box sets and the woman told her some good news...... they have had so many calls and letters about Fraggle Rock, that there is definitely going to be a box set!! The bad news is that it won't be until next fall because, of course, it's going to take them awhile. I don't even care how long it's going to be, I'm just ecstatic that this is going to happen!!!
HIT! is going to put fraggle DVDs in places other than Wal-Mart, the first DVD (Where it all Began) was released only at Wal-Mart to test the market for Fraggle DVDs. The special editon of the same DVD, due out next month, will be avalible everywhere DVDs are sold. I would asume all Fraggle DVDs from now on will be released everwhere aswell.Wembley said:(note to HIT - how 'bout having someone else in addition to Wal-Mart sell Fraggle Rock?!?! )
Not quite true A single layer holds 4.7 billion bytes. But in computer terms a gigabyte is 2^30, not 10^9, so a single layer actually holds approximately 4.37GB and a dual-layer disc holds 8.75GB. This is extremely important to remember if you're making a disc - there is nothing more irritating than discovering that you're a couple of meg over the disc capacity!Wembley said:One last thing - just as a technical note, a single-layer DVD can handle 4.7 GB of data, or about 120 minutes of video. Most blank DVDs that you buy today are single layer discs. Most DVDs you buy in the store with movies on them, are dual layer discs (about 9 gigs of data or 240ish minutes of video).
True. I'm just giving the "approximate" numbers that appear on the box of DVD-RWs that I had sitting on the desk at the time. This is like the "marketing" megabyte versus the "technical" megabyte issue that hard drive advertising used to have.anathema said:Not quite true A single layer holds 4.7 billion bytes. But in computer terms a gigabyte is 2^30, not 10^9, so a single layer actually holds approximately 4.37GB and a dual-layer disc holds 8.75GB. This is extremely important to remember if you're making a disc - there is nothing more irritating than discovering that you're a couple of meg over the disc capacity!
Also, the recordable dual-layer DVDs that are starting to appear do not have quite the same capacity as pressed discs - they're typically around 8.5GB.
I never heard her say "may".Luke said:Are you sure she didn't say it may be coming to DVD next fall? I think she may have read her "Fraggle DVD" script wrong. Perhaps someone else can confirm with them too to make sure they get the same info and it wasn't just an error?
Still does, unfortunately. And a "megabyte" is usually defined as 1,000,000 bytes rather than the (correct) 1,048,576 bytes.Wembley said:True. I'm just giving the "approximate" numbers that appear on the box of DVD-RWs that I had sitting on the desk at the time. This is like the "marketing" megabyte versus the "technical" megabyte issue that hard drive advertising used to have.
I'm holding off for a little longer before committing myself. At present, only DVD+R technology is available, and I'd like to see DVD-R as well. And I'd expect compatibility problems for a while yet. However, for backup purposes it would be very useful - I normally use the huffyuv codec for projects in order to eliminate lossy compression stages, and the resulting files are sodding huge!I haven't actually started playing with the dual-layer recordables yet - I'm still working on getting a good handle on making a good DVD using the stuff I have now!
I have an old Panasonic miniDV camcorder, but its main use is as a miniDV player rather than a camera. For analogue import I use a Canopus ADVC55, which converts composite or s-video plus stereo audio into a DV stream; this feeds into one of the firewire ports in my system. My video setup (currently) comprises a professional PAL SVHS deck, used mainly for playback; a semi-pro NTSC SVHS deck; a semi-pro PAL SVHS deck (for recording), and a PAL/NTSC laserdisc player. All of this feeds into an A/V switchbox, the output of which goes into a TBC/standards-converter. This then goes to a distribution amp, which outputs the signal to the recording decks, the monitor and the ADVC55. I have the capability to play and record both PAL and NTSC VHS and SVHS tapes; PAL and NTSC laserdiscs; and PAL miniDV tapes. I can also convert between PAL and NTSC in either direction.If I might ask, what type of equipment are you using? I've got a miniDV video camera (A sharp something or other, got it for a song) connected to my computer with a firewire connection on my sound card. As far as software goes, I'm running Kino and the MPEG tools under Fedora Linux 2, and trying to get Cinelerra to work.
There's no way around that, I'm afraid!The only drawback right now is that the video has to be extracted from the tape in real-time, that is to say, if I have 60 minutes of video on the tape, it will take 60 minutes to download into the computer....
Feel free to askAnyway, I'm glad there's someone who knows more than me about video - I'm just a beginner when it comes to pro video stuff. I'll have to learn more!