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Super Mario Bros. 3 Famicom Video Blog Test
File size: 3.2 MB
Length: 0:37
Format: iPod Ready MPG4
Today I decided to try to see if I could use my Philips DVD Recorder with HDD to record video-games for movie clips. The problem that I ran into with my old DVD recorder is that there was a noticeable lag between the time you pressed the button and when the signal would get processed and displayed on the screen but that DVD recorder did not have a hard drive. That made the game impossible to play. Luckily this DVD recorder records to the hard drive and there is no noticeable lag in button presses making it possible to play a game while it is being recorder to the hard drive. Then I can archive it to a DVD+RW and take it to my iBook for ripping and editing.
The only tool that I would use for ripping and encoding DVD video is Handbreak. It is an easy to use and is damn powerful. It can de-interlace the video and give you a MP4 file or AVI file that I can then edit further in iMovie HD. Handbreak is one of the better digital video tools on the mac and it is essential if you wanted to take DVD content and get it on a PSP, iPod or video blog. I am trying to give it the best possible quality before I edit the ripped video clip. It is about 16 megs at this point.
Then it is off to editing the video in iMovie.
While the movie clip is importing in iMovie I am going to make a small narration audio clip in Audacity.
Then I edit the starting and ending points in iMovie and then import and line up the audio narration clip. Save and make a test. Then I exported it for the web. After about five minutes of compressing and rendering video I have a nice looking iPod ready MPEG-4 movie that is ready for uploading.
I make a nice screen shot graphic using a screen capture program SnapNDrag.
I then uploaded the finished clip to my account at Archive.org's Our Media service and posted a link and post on 8Bitjoystck.com.
Overall this was a lot of fun and it was easier than I had thought. I might try this in the future to make video blog posts and include video clips of games. I might even go as far as making an iPod or PSP compatible RSS feed of the clips but this is getting a head of myself.
Jake at January 7, 2006 
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If you wanted to use your old DVD recorder, what you could have done is gotten this device at your local radio shack that lets you hook up your system to mutiple TV's. Have one hook up to your DVD recorder and one to your TV. Then you can play on your TV and not notice the lag. I do this while capturing Halo 2 to my PC. When capturing there is lag, so i have the cable hook up to the device, and hook up one set of cables from the device to my capture card, and the other to a TV. works flawlessly.
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at January 8, 2006 2:36 AM
Jake, Why can't I ever play quicktime videos anymore? I'm running OS 10.3.5, but it says I'm not running the right software? Am I going to have to update to 10.3.9 to update quicktime? Sorry off topic
Posted by: Shawn L at January 8, 2006 8:12 AM
Awesome, you should add the movie files to your RSS feed as enclosures so people can download them to iTunes and their iPods. I love the idea of mini video game reviews over video, especially for the original Famicom games that you're into. Great job.
Posted by: Jason Whitman at January 8, 2006 9:43 AM
I don't know have you updated to the latest Quicktime? Try updating iTunes. Why have you not updated to 10.3.9?
I used the most recient quicktime mp4 codecs. I am working on a video review of Katamari Damacy.
I want to make sure I am using a iTunes and iPod compatible video clip. I might keep doing the video segments they are pretty fun to do. I also need to learn all I can about iMovie.
Posted by: 8Bit Jake at January 8, 2006 11:48 AM
video blog is very interesting, i also have one, and i always use video tools from http://www.yaodownload.com to make my professional video blog!
Posted by: suangsang at August 2, 2006 12:47 AM
