Question

[Alma J Wetzker]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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> David Bandel wrote:
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>> You'll also want to rip Jack-Jack Attack.  It's better than the movie.  
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> I enjoyed Jack-Jack Attack, but the best value on the DVD IMHO was 
> Boundin'  (The Song of the Jackalope).  When I saw it in the theatre I 
> was floored.

I preferred the bird short that came with M<eye>.  Boundin' was 
technically good, but I found it boring.
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>>> A decent quality encoding will run my about 1.5GB per movie depending 
>>> on the
>>> length and relative action of the flic.
>>>
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>> This is why I tell dvdrip to transcode to 700Mb and use .avi.  I found
>> that results in the smallest file of best quality video (unless I'm
>> doing something wrong).  Everything else of decent quality wants to be
>> much bigger.  And I want to keep a copy on CD as a backup.
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> Really?  I keep them under 1.5GB so they fit on two CD's, but the 
> quality is still good.  Many of the movies I've done have too many 
> artifacts at 700mb.  Actually, I vary the quality rating between 900kps 
> and 1200kps for video.
> 
But, do you use *.avi encoding?  There are differences.

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>> I find the 30fps usually settles down at around 29.65fps.
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> I was getting 29.97fps which would then shift to 23.976 and since the 
> video was forevermore tagged at 29.97, the video would outpace the 
> audio.  But I'm dealing in NTSC.  What video "standard" do you have?

The standard for movies is 24 fps.  The standard for NTSC (Never The 
Same Color) is 30 fps drop frame, which works out to about 29.5 fps  (I 
forget the exact...)  The problems arise when the DVD circuit must 
provide the NTSC signal and the movie is less.  It also depends on how 
honest the DVD maker is about preserving the original movie.  (I like to 
see them in the 5:4 ratio of 70 mm film.  The idiots like to release 
pan-n-scan or HDTV, which lops off about 30% of what the director had in 
the shot.  Grrrr!)  Some also play games with frame rate.

     -- Alma