A new video adventure has begun.\u00c2\u00a0 Before cheerleading season began, I wanted to upgrade my video equipment.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than get a separate camcorder and DSLR, I went with an integrated solution, a Canon EOS 60D.<\/p>\n
My first attempt at video was this afternoon at a short recital at a local bookstore.\u00c2\u00a0 The video is only 9 minutes long and was shot in 1280×720 at 60fps.\u00c2\u00a0 Although this is a higher resolution than DVD, I thought it better to downconvert to DVD and have a higher resolution for the future than to shoot at lower resolution.<\/p>\n
The first attempt to burn a DVD was with Brasero.\u00c2\u00a0 This was easy enough, but the quality wasn’t what I was expecting.\u00c2\u00a0 It was noticeably blotchy, like a JPEG with the quality set too low.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I tried FFMPEG:<\/p>\n
This was much better.\u00c2\u00a0 From there I took the output MPEG and fed it into Brasero to burn a DVD.\u00c2\u00a0 And it looked crappy again.<\/p>\n Finally, running the FFMPEG file through DVD Styler worked fine.<\/p>\n I thought some people might like to watch the original 720p video, so after burning the DVD, I set out to upload it to YouTube.\u00c2\u00a0 The video is almost 3 GB, and YouTube’s file limit is 2 GB unless you use the advanced uploader.\u00c2\u00a0 But the advanced uploader didn’t work because I didn’t have Java.\u00c2\u00a0 At least that’s what YouTube said.\u00c2\u00a0 I do have Java, just not the Java browser plugin.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s available in the Ubuntu Software Center as “Sun Java 6.0 Plugin”.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s cool is Firefox found the plugin after installation without restarting.\u00c2\u00a0 All I had to do is refresh the YouTube page and the advanced uploader started itself.<\/p>\n The video will be up in, uh, 45 minutes.<\/p>\n While I’m waiting, I’ll create the DVD case sleeve.\u00c2\u00a0 Wow, more trouble.\u00c2\u00a0 I use cdlabelgen, which requires an EPS file for the graphic.\u00c2\u00a0 It won’t take any other format.\u00c2\u00a0 In the past, I’ve just used A new video adventure has begun.\u00c2\u00a0 Before cheerleading season began, I wanted to upgrade my video equipment.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than get a separate camcorder and DSLR, I went with an integrated solution, a Canon EOS 60D. My first attempt at video was this afternoon at a short recital at a local bookstore.\u00c2\u00a0 The video is only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ffmpeg -i MVI_1234.MOV -target ntsc-dvd MVI_1234.mpeg<\/code><\/p>\nconvert picture.jpg cover.eps<\/code>.\u00c2\u00a0 This isn’t working any more.\u00c2\u00a0 Trying to look at the output EPS with ghostscript causes a syntax error.\u00c2\u00a0 My first thought was the JPEG was too large, so I shrunk it.\u00c2\u00a0 But that didn’t fix it.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe convert is broken?\u00c2\u00a0 I looked for another converter and found sam2p in Synaptic.\u00c2\u00a0 The syntax is the same as convert’s.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, it worked!\u00c2\u00a0 But I’m kinda shocked that convert is broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"