DeeLoaf

I decided to try and upload a video to google video. This was after I decided to try messing around with DV some more and find a bloody satisfactory model for usage. I've settled. I think what I'll do is just accept that the highest quality of video is always only going to be on the DV tapes themselves and will probably degrade over time as they become unreadable or whatever. As for transferring video to the PC, well DV sucks. The files are just too unweildly, and the interlaced video is just gay. So what I'm going to do is just take a very lassaiz faire attitide, it is what it is, I only have so much disk space etc. So I'll deinterlace, resize to 512x384, and 2pass Xvid encode at 3000kbps and keep those on disk as "high quality originals" or at least, suitable for working with in editing programs. Maybe I'll change that to 4500kbps or higher, maybe not do the resize. But the de-interlace and xvid encode at high bitrate are going to be staples of my operation. And then, edit away, mix up, add text and effects or whatever, and then output at a more bandwidth friendly bitrate like 1000kbps (all the TeeVee shows I dl are about 1000kbps and they look fine). With the lower bitrate final output I dont think there will be much difference between 3000kbps xvid source files versus raw DV source files, so I think my little operating proceduce should work greatly to reduce my aversion to actually working with DV. Just bite the bullet son! ... Ok here is the video I was messing with and posted to google video. And of course, the quality is further degraded there.