Okay, I don't know if I'm just over-caffeinated or WHAT, but I feel like I've already been at work for five hours. I'm thinking about the fact that JUST before I got here I FINALLY managed to get the AVI to DVD burning properly on my computer, which is perfect because now I will be able to archive all of my old files in a digital manner that can be easily read by my home recorder. now hopefully it will also be able to easily make the book time a ROM on DVD+R's, so there is no problem with Non-recordable standard players.
And yet, now I'm TOTALLY itching to have a blue-ray recorder, now that they're only 150 bucks. NOT so much for the video, but for data archiving.
I'm jittery. It's gotta be the caffeine. (Makes me feel bad sitting next to one of my Mormon friends at work, actually). Right now all I can think about is a bloody Blue-ray burner. And get this: I don't even have a decent LCD monitor right now! I should be TOTALLY focused on that. I'm thinking just a little 20" 720p 1680×1050 monitor. Can probably swing that for 150 bucks.
Oooookay after that call that lasted half an hour I think my caffeine's starting to slow just a smidge... the world is going a more normal speed.
At any rate, I'm TOTALLY craving the ability to store 25 gig's on a single disk. My .5 terabyte external WD (that's only really like 465 gigs) just isn't doing the trick. There's just so much that I need to DO! Speaking of which, I have old school video on HI8 I need to record. GAH. I don't have a HI8 player! Mayhap I can borrow the parent's old bust camcorder and find a battery for it or something until I can digitize it. the thing hasn't worked in years, but still...
Okay Focus Cody. You have a wedding to worry about. Ice-pak the technolust. It just feels like I've FINALLY re-captured the ability to do what I wanted to do five years ago with my video, and I already feel I'm WAY far behind. I still have a ton of VHS tapes to record onto digital, and though they're mostly SLP vhs, I'm still not sure what I should do as far as the playback speed / quality balance for the DVD. I know the quality is already degraded, but how far is too far when I'm degrading the DVD's quality, too? I tried the lowest setting and it was like 3 times worse than the analog distortion. But That means I'll need like 3 DVD's per VHS tape if I don't degrade the quality. (Hence possibly part of my desire for Blue Ray recording).
GRaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Any suggestions would be helpful I suppose. Mayhap I should just video capture card and run it all into my computer for later archival, rather than the other way around. That, of course, will require a video capture card... but that can't POSSIBLY cost as much as all the DVD's I would go through to record my VHS footage properly.
*sigh*
"Dear Santa. I know it's April, but please send me 4 terabytes of storage and the means to digitize and transcode all of my archives. Sincerely, Cody."
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