Re: Better EC tree idea

[Mark Donahue <mdonahue@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris!

You have hit upon a great idea!  There must be a free program out there that
allows you to assign SPMTE timecodes to both the audio and the video, and then
just tag certain points as "landmarks" (cymbal crashes work nicely)  in the
recording for the computer to use as a sync.  I may be totally off the mark
here, but just a suggestion. My buddy does computer animation and that's what
he does.  This process could be used to sync up all sorts of video to better
audio, especially old 8mm films.

Any ideas?

Mark

Chris deCastro wrote:

> Well... like I said, if nobody steps up with a straight DVD=>VCD
> conversion, I'll have my Hidden Grok tape transferred, which by the way I'm
> watching, in sync with my EC discs right now during NQ... farkin awesome.
>
> Which brings me to my idea. I'm gonna have my friend send me just the
> mpegs, not in VCD format, without sound. What I'd like to do is personally
> insert the best available audio into the mpegs before treeing it, so we can
> have VCD's with soundboard sound, for the songs when available. I've done
> this with my CD copy of the Danish TV video sourced from a quicktime file
> (I inserted SBD sound into it quite flawlessly... just had to tinker around
> with the audio a bit with some speed correction to get it to sync with the
> vid.)
>
> For this, if I'm going to do this, I'll need the latest and best EC audio
> release. Has something better than Odysseus come out since then? It'll be a
> couple weeks before I can even think about doing this, since I'm moving to
> USC in 10 days and will need time to get settled. But if nobody else has
> stepped up to the plate by that time, can someone get me the best available
> EC discs? I'd say that the best available EC discs in exchange for the
> resulting VCD's would be a fair trade.
>
> Chris