captainsolo said:
Was noticing that smearing on the Revivax and DJ's test clips. It really isn't present on the LDs. (from what I recall)
BTW: what method did you use on Mac for this? I used one while at school with an old LD player and FCP-which didn't work out well at all...the captures looked awful no matter what I did to them. Not to mention that trying to add the 5.1 ac3 was a nightmare b/c FCP does not accept ac3.
I can't comment on 5.1 audio in FCP as the PAL LDs only have stereo audio, but I would guess you would need to break up the 5.1 into the individual channels and then add them to your timeline as separate tracks.
For capturing I have my CLD-D925 hooked up to my ADVC-55 which is connected to my iMac via firewire, I then use FCP's Log and Capture feature using the PAL DV capture preset to capture to a DV encoded .mov file. From there I edit the capture removing side changes and any excess footage from the beginning and end of the recording. Then I apply the filters I have listed previously and render the timeline. Once that is done I export out a reference movie and use MPEGStreamclip to crop from 4:3 to 16:9 this time encoding as Apple ProRes 422 (HQ). I then take that file back into FCP add the alien language subtitles, chapter markers and then export the final timeline out as both m4v H.264 and MPEG2 for DVD.
I think a big part of how good the captures look is what LaserDisc Player, Capture Card/Device and AV Cables you use. If only Pioneer had made a PAL equivalent of the HLD-X0!