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FleetingEileenM
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 Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:45 am Post subject: Downloading YouTube clips |
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Does anyone have any experience in doing this please? I have saved so many that I look at occasionally, from Forsyth & Wisdom double act at the Palladium, Spike Milligan, jazz gigs with players I know etc.
I'd love to put them on a DVD - but how? |
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Ian Robinson
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| The way I do it is to save the clips in MP4 format (or Mov if available), import into iMovie and build a DVD. But I think a good DVD burn programme like Toast can convert and burn directly if you import them. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Eileen - if you want to play your recordings on a regular DVD player (as opposed to storing them as data files) then they need to be MPEG-2 with PCM audio, and here in the UK they'll need to conform to PAL 720x576 pixels 25fps (50i) before a program like Toast will accept them. If it's widescreen, then you'll need to ensure that you've chosen a 16:9 widescreen format when downconverting.
When downloading clips from YouTube, always choose the highest quality clip there is - usually HD 720p - as this will downconvert to standard definition much better.
An application that I use on Windows and Mac is MPEG Streamclip, which is a great "Swiss Army Knife" encoder and format converter. It's free, too. |
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FleetingEileenM
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for those tips Ian and Colin. There are so many clips I would like to store permanently. |
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Ian Robinson
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| ColinB wrote: | | here in the UK they'll need to conform to PAL 720x576 pixels 25fps (50i) before a program like Toast will accept them. If it's widescreen, then you'll need to ensure that you've chosen a 16:9 widescreen format when downconverting. |
I've not had that issue. Toast sorts it (as does iDVD). |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| Ian Robinson wrote: |
I've not had that issue. Toast sorts it (as does iDVD). |
It depends upon where the sequences come from. Most of the time Toast gets it right, but occasionally there will be confusion over pixel aspect ratio and you'll end up with 4:3 squished when it should be 16:9. For the last couple of days I've been writing a pile of digitised & re-edited VHS tapes to DVD for a client and have to be really carefully how the files come out of Final Cut Pro. In one instance, Toast didn't write properly.
In the main, however, it does a very good job. The point I was making above was that there's such a mish-mash of rubbish (technically speaking, let alone creative) on YouTube that you have to keep an eye on what you're handling to ensure that it turns out right. |
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