Notice how he mis-spells the titles....
If they are transfers from the original films, where did you get them?
Some of those were SHOT ON VIDEO, NOT on FILM.
I doubt he has the 16mm or 35mm original Films.
Once again people, Traci Lords is a Hobby with me.
I have gone out of my way to spend large amounts of money to get the
ORIGINAL RETAIL Videos/Laserdiscs, etc., and spent a lot of time, to
restore these films.
Let me explain this so you can understand:
A stand-alone DVD Recorder, records at 704x480, that is NOT DVD
quality. It is recording from a source of 240 lines of resolution for
a Retail VHS or 250 lines of resolution for a Retail Beta Tape. It
does real-time encoding to MPEG-2, all FLAWS are amplified by the LOSSY
compression, and will result in worse than the original copies, and
record at very low bits per second, usually 3 or even 2Mbps to fit 2
HOURS on a DVD.
HOW I and HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS make a DVD:
We take the original ANALOG Source Material, it is digitally converted
to 720x480 Resolution, the resolution of 500 lines of resolution DVDs,
say 90 minutes for a 90 minute movie.
The video is then processed. We apply Video Noise Reduction to reduce
the noise in the picture. Those red, green and blue spots that are
present on all magnetic source material. We apply hue and saturation
adjustments, color correction, and other filters to clean up and make
the video better, to be most like the original film/video when it was
shot over 20 years ago, and make up for the years of degradation.
After spending hours to make these adjustments, we proceed.
The resulting DV file is then loaded into a timeline editor. Chapter
points are inserted between different chapters, and important scene
changes in the video.
The second, third, and fourth, up to 8 language tracks are then added
to the DV file and timeline edited, to make sure the audio is in sync
with the video.
The subtitle tracks, up to 32 are then added to the DV file, and
adjusted so they match the dialog on the screen.
We then decide what extras to add, bloopers, outtakes, etc., theatrical
trailers, etc., and add them in...
After the many hours of all this is done, we are ready to BURN a MASTER
DVD.
We load the DV file into the DVD Authoring package and then make the
menus, chapters, etc...
We are then presented with the audio options, Dolby Digital 2 channel
or 5.1 surround sound, using these Professional codecs is how we can
fit 3 hours of HIGH quality video onto the 2 hour DVDs that consumers
buy in the stores for their standalone DVD recorders, and they use the
WORST possible bit rate to make their DVDs....
We then have to decide how to encode the video, if the video is 76
minutes or less, we can encode it to 8Mbps MPEG-2 with the least amount
of degradation. If it is 186 minutes in length, then we must encode it
to 3Mbps, the standard 2 hour speed of those consumer recorders, and
provide up to 80% of loss in quality.
Tracis films never ran longer than 117 minutes, most were under 90
minutes...
We can adjust the bitrate as follows: 8000, 7000, 6000, 5000, 4000,
3000.
Consumer DVD Recorders are 3000 for 2 hour, or less and MPEG-1 which is
worse than VHS in EP mode for 4, 6 and 8 hours....
To get the BEST quality from the 15Mbps DV file, we adjust the bitrate
to FIT the disc.
An example, say an 82 minute video, will not fit at 8Mbps, but there is
too much space if we select 7Mbps, so we average it out, selecting
speeds like 7634 until we have a few seconds remaining on the DVD.
When you can FIT 3 HOURS of MPEG-2 Video and Dolby Digital Stereo on a
DVD, NONE of Traci's films will be lower than 4Mbps.
ALL Hollywood DVDs are 4Mbps...... That's how they FIT those extras on
single DVDs. Dual Layer DVDs just allow them to fit more items on the
discs.
That's why my friend said, oh, so that's how they can fit 6 hours on
one side on the double-sided DVDs I have, exactly...
The standalond consumer DVD Recorders are made to record 330 lines of
resolution broadcast TV. They do NOT need 500 lines of resolution to
record that... Hence instead of 720x480, they use 704x480 in BEST 1
hour mode, and 352x240 in 2 hour mode. MPEG-1 starts at 352x240,
notice that's 240 lines of vertical resolution? Yes, VHS has 240 lines
of vertical resolution, BUT, MPEG-1 is a LOSSY compression, so the
MPEG-1 video to fit the 4 hours on the DVD will look worse than the VHS
source.
If you don't have an HDTV, where DVDs look like CRAP when you play
them, 500 lines of resolution on a 1080 lines of resolution display,
looks like you have to switch the ATSC tuner to 480p mode, or only 480
lines of resolution to see a good picture.
Ever notice how a DVD plays PERFECT on your low resolution TV, but when
you play it on your computers DVD player on your 2048x1092 resolution
display, yes, HIGHER than HDTV resolution, it's all grainy and looks
like a VHS tape recorded in EP mode?
If you people wany CRAP, then BUY CRAP....
My DVDs are SUPERIOR in EVERY WAY to the Canadian DVDs recorded on a
standalone Pioneer DVD Recorder from his Retail Tapes. He sells them
for $35.00 each.....
I should sell mine for $65.00, the Retail Price of Traci I Love You DVD
from Canada....
But, because I'm a nice person to HELP out other Traci Collectors, I
provide them for only $25.00....