Hi all, I've just been busy again with all the Yello video's I captured last year. I've made a terrible mistake. The video quality is superb, but dumb ass me, converted the audio segment to 128k mp3. This should have been 160 or even higher. The los is a bit too much. Ah.. sigh.. But what I wanted to ask: The girl, that features in several clips (Oh Yeah, Jungle Bill). Is this Dieters daughter? A Second question... Did Billy Mackenzy pass away, just like Ernst Gamper? Or am I just fooled by stupid html code on the net? And third: Oliver/Ollie, are you still out there? We talked at the end of last year about the recording of Yello in Havana. We would get in contact again about this. Although it never left my mind I didn't get back to it, because I'm still a victem of broken hardware. The superb Philips Pro Video deck has died, and I'm waiting for a replacement or enough money to get it repaired. A very old videocasette jammed the engines and mechanism... &**(*&%$##$$%%%^^.... Ah sigh. Rene
hmmm... Well. Dieter can be proud having this goodlooking daughter, but I'm a bit sad that McKenzy and Gamper have passed away. I searched on the net for info on Gamper, but got lost... Does anyone have a dedicated link to info on Gamper? Rene
[ I've just been busy again with all the Yello video's I captured [ last year. I've made a terrible mistake. The video quality is [ superb, but dumb ass me, converted the audio segment to 128k mp3. [ This should have been 160 or even higher. The los is a bit too [ much. Rene, Any time you capture something, always keep a backup of the original, uncompressed audio and video. Quality levels like 128k MP3 will sometimes become outdated, and eventually even MP3 will be replaced with MP4 or AAC. A lossless audio compression is fine, since you can get back the original exactly. I don't know as much about video, but I suppose there are some lossless video codecs as well, in case you don't have enough space for all your backups. Computer tape makes a great way to store original backups, so they don't take up hard disk space until you need to go back and bump up the compression quality for the publicly traded version. 128k mp3 wasn't a bad idea, I'm sure it was good enough for last year, but deleting your original capture was a mistake! ;-) Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting
I remember Emagic was working on a loss-less audio compression. It was supposed to be quite nice but I think they gave up on it. Have you guys heard SACD yet? Friend has a set up.... Pure bliss... Better then vinyl... I swear! julz On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 06:42 PM, Brian Willoughby wrote:
[ I've just been busy again with all the Yello video's I captured [ last year. I've made a terrible mistake. The video quality is [ superb, but dumb ass me, converted the audio segment to 128k mp3. [ This should have been 160 or even higher. The los is a bit too [ much.
Rene,
Any time you capture something, always keep a backup of the original, uncompressed audio and video. Quality levels like 128k MP3 will sometimes become outdated, and eventually even MP3 will be replaced with MP4 or AAC. A lossless audio compression is fine, since you can get back the original exactly. I don't know as much about video, but I suppose there are some lossless video codecs as well, in case you don't have enough space for all your backups. Computer tape makes a great way to store original backups, so they don't take up hard disk space until you need to go back and bump up the compression quality for the publicly traded version.
128k mp3 wasn't a bad idea, I'm sure it was good enough for last year, but deleting your original capture was a mistake! ;-)
Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting
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To Brian Willoughby Oh I know all about backing up material in the best way possible... at work. But at home I tend to mess it up ... :-) The videos were captured using a DC20 with hardware compression MJPEG. The whole idea behind it was to make them comfortable in use and for easy playback whenever I felt the need to watch. But as I played a couple of them today, I was surpised that I didn't notice the poor sound quality when I 'backed them up'. Oh well. Hard lessens.
Rene,
Any time you capture something, always keep a backup of the original, uncompressed audio and video. Quality levels like 128k MP3 will sometimes become outdated, and eventually even MP3 will be replaced with MP4 or AAC. A lossless audio compression is fine, since you can get back the original exactly. I don't know as much about video, but I suppose there are some lossless video codecs as well, in case you don't have enough space for all your backups. Computer tape makes a great way to store original backups, so they don't take up hard disk space until you need to go back and bump up the compression quality for the publicly traded version.
128k mp3 wasn't a bad idea, I'm sure it was good enough for last year, but deleting your original capture was a mistake! ;-)
Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting
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