1 IBM PC Club June 2004 Bob Stephens

2 Introduction Bob’s Background Digital Video Photography Class At SeniorNet, Almaden Center

3 Overview The Past

4 Overview Two Basic Areas VCR

5 Three Basic Areas PC

6 Three Basic Areas - Plus Mini DV, D8 (DV), Analog Cameras Micro DV is Discontinued Some Vendors Ulead Adaptec Sonic Factory Pinnacle Adobe Windows Movie Maker 2 WMM2 (XP) Analog Analog + PC

7 Three Basic Areas – Connect 1394/Firewire/iLink – Digital Composite, S Video – Analog Analog Converter card or box 1.0GHZ+, 256MB 13GB/Hour of DV Video 1394 for DV Analog card USB 2.0 for photos 2 nd Video Capture drive VCD (VHS quality) SVCD (better) DVD (best) CD Writer DVD Writer DVD Player VCR PVR VCR Analog Input PC

8 Cameras and Editors DV Camcorders Are they good cameras? Digital Cameras Are they good camcorders? Features? Video Editors What do we want to accomplish? Features

9 Dispelling the Myth DV produces 720x480 pixel pictures (broadcast quality) Some cams have up to 1.5M+ pixels for digital pictures Would you buy a 1.5MP camera today? Camcorders DO NOT make good digital cameras And digital cameras DO NOT make good camcorders

10 Dispelling the Myth Most Digital Cameras produce low resolution/frame rate video, many without sound (but within that limitation they serve a useful purpose) A few do produce acceptable video. The Fuji S602 when combined with the 1GB IBM Microdrive will produce a very reasonable 680x minute video with sound. And up to 30 minutes at lower resolution (VHS), OR about 3000 high resolution pictures.

11 Mini DV Camcorder Features Up to 20x Optical Zoom 500x Digital Zoom – Of very limited value Viewfinder and LCD displays Battery life and HOW do you charge the batteries (YES you’ll need 2 batteries) Pass though (digital to/from analog)

12 Show Video Zoom Video Show Camcorder

13 Video Editor Features Capture Input Delete unwanted portions of the video (one estimated is 50% of the video) Merge multiple video clips Add Titles Add Transitions Add Pictures Add Sound Preview video Create Viewable video

14 Video Editor Features Enhance video (change color, double the speed, etc.) Add credits (scrolling credits) Authoring for DVD’s Menus Motion backgrounds Output

15 Show Surfing Video

16 Video Editor Features Make Output Save as a file (various formats) Burn a VCD or SVCD Burn a DVD Save to DV camcorder Analog output (camcorder, VHS, etc.)

17 A basic video that contains some of our desired features Show Bogey and Friends

18 All Camcorders VCR Composite Analog Tape Source

19 Passthrough VCR Composite Analog Tape Not Used for Passthrough PC 1394 Digital Analog camcorder DV

20 Digital 8 or D8 Camcorders 8mm Digital Tape 8mm Analog Tape (Read only) May Support Passthorugh Tape Source PC 1394

21 Canopus Breakout Box

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23 Show VHS Tivo Comparison Video

24 Minimum PC 600MHZ, 1.0GHZ+ better 128MB, 256MB+ better Lots of disk space, 40GB marginal Consider 200GB for $100 as a second drive for video Video, sound, 1394, analog capture card, USB 2.0 Check your video software, I’d use their recommended PC, not their minimum PC

25 PC OS’s Most to least desirable – XP, W2K, 98SE, ME Very limited NT Support Be aware of the 4GB file size limit of FAT32. XP or W2K with NTFS recommended

26 Why XP? The most stable Windows OS The best supported OS Plug and play Expanded device support Supports NTFS file system Includes WMM 2 Second choice for video is W2K

27 NTFS File System Stability and Recovery from errors Efficient for small file sizes, directory cluster size, file lookup Up to 8 Peta bytes (1,000,000 GB’s) No 4GB file size limitation

28 Vendor Editor Software $100 Range Digital Video Creator 80 (Dazzle), Dazzle recently merged with Pinnacle DVD Movie Factory 2 (Ulead) DVD Picture Show 2 (Ulead) Screenblaster Movie Studio (Sonic Foundry) Studio 9 (Pinnacle Systems) and other related products. Video Explosion Deluxe (Nova) Video Studio 7 (Ulead) Video Wave 5 (Roxio)

29 Vendor Editor Software $300 Range – May contain breakout box hardware Digital Video Creator 150 (Pinnacle/Dazzle) Hollywood DV Bridge (Pinnacle/Dazzle) Studio Deluxe (Pinnacle) Studio Moviebox (Pinnacle) Above $300 Liquid Edition 5 (Pinnacle) Premier (Adobe) Vegas 4.0 (Sonic Foundry)

30 Video Player Software You’ll also want to be able to view video on your PC (besides the video editor preview window) that’s quick and easy to use Windows Media Player (WMP version 9) that comes with the Microsoft OS’s will do the job, in addition to many others

31 Commercial DVD Format Single Sided, Dual Layer (DVD9) Top layer 4.7GB Bottom layer 3.8GB Total 8.5GB

32 Recordable DVD Format Single Sided, Single Layer (DVD5) 4.7GB Dual Format – and +, Both formats are popular Four Media’s DVD–R/RW and DVD+R/RW DVD-RAM, Not nearly as popular as the Dual Format’s

33 Recordable DVD DL Format (Dual Layer ) Just starting to become available for consumers Cost about $300 Media cost? Software support?

34 DVD Labels (physical labels) When compared to CD’s DVD’s have higher RPM DVD’s have higher temperatures General Advice – DON’T LABEL DVD’s Use permanent pen Or printable DVD’s with printer

35 Windows Movie Maker 2 Screen shots from WMM2 The functions of WMM2 are typical of video editors

36 WMM2 – 3 Windows

37 Notice the Preview Window, Collections and Timeline

38 Movie Tasks

39 Timeline

40 Show Funny Cats Video

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42 Darn Cat!

43 Thanks John Zimmerman

44 The End

Demo WMM?

46 IBM PC Club 3/9/04 Bob Stephens

47 IBM PC Club June 2004 Bob Stephens

48 HDTV