text stringlengths 7 369 |
|---|
[2087.36 --> 2088.28] It's got an HDMI out. |
[2088.34 --> 2089.16] Do you want to go for coffee? |
[2089.32 --> 2090.94] And you can have it for a few weeks. |
[2090.96 --> 2093.60] And I was like, yeah, that sounds amazing. |
[2093.74 --> 2094.58] Thank you so much. |
[2095.18 --> 2098.28] So, you know, I met up with him, got coffee, brought it home. |
[2098.48 --> 2099.00] Wait a minute. |
[2099.02 --> 2099.98] What is he doing with this thing? |
[2099.98 --> 2100.86] He needs to sell it to me. |
[2101.02 --> 2102.36] This is what needs to happen. |
[2102.36 --> 2103.34] Oh, we can. |
[2103.46 --> 2105.06] I'm sure you'll hear this episode. |
[2106.52 --> 2112.98] So very excitedly, I brought this thing home, got it unpacked, got it all set up and put in one of the tapes. |
[2112.98 --> 2115.68] And it just said unsupported format. |
[2116.08 --> 2117.38] And I'm like, huh? |
[2118.28 --> 2124.54] And I was thinking maybe it was something to do with the, because on mini DV tapes, there's this long play and short play format. |
[2124.54 --> 2128.36] So you could take a 60 minute tape and make it into a 90 minute tape or something like that. |
[2128.86 --> 2129.42] SP and LP. |
[2129.92 --> 2130.50] That's it. |
[2130.66 --> 2130.82] Yeah. |
[2131.02 --> 2131.36] God. |
[2132.32 --> 2135.92] Tech 15 years ago was just ridiculous, wasn't it? |
[2136.12 --> 2136.90] So bad. |
[2137.00 --> 2138.16] How do we make it work? |
[2138.56 --> 2142.58] And importing footage off those tapes meant you actually had to, like, play the tape back. |
[2142.70 --> 2143.92] You couldn't just copy the files. |
[2144.26 --> 2144.34] In real time. |
[2144.46 --> 2144.68] Yeah. |
[2147.10 --> 2151.20] Now these days, you just have an SD card, you just copy it off, it's fine, you know? |
[2151.74 --> 2153.56] Yeah, and we complain about dongles these days. |
[2153.56 --> 2154.72] Give me a dongle any day. |
[2155.26 --> 2155.30] Yeah. |
[2156.40 --> 2158.74] So yeah, I was, you know, I had my HDMI capture device. |
[2158.82 --> 2160.78] I've got a USB one of those just knocking around. |
[2161.02 --> 2162.76] And I was like, right, this is going to be perfect. |
[2163.08 --> 2163.88] Unsupported format. |
[2164.38 --> 2165.18] Womp womp. |
[2165.60 --> 2170.66] Turns out my tapes are in PAL format and this camera is an NTSC camera. |
[2171.04 --> 2173.94] Now, I'm almost positive you could switch it to PAL though, can't you? |
[2174.72 --> 2175.86] I don't think so. |
[2176.08 --> 2177.32] I've had a real good dig. |
[2177.68 --> 2178.16] Oh, okay. |
[2178.16 --> 2178.96] What if you, uh. |
[2179.34 --> 2180.74] Hmm, I'd have to look again. |
[2181.16 --> 2183.18] Maybe we can walk through it on a FaceTime call or something. |
[2183.18 --> 2183.36] Yeah. |
[2183.42 --> 2184.46] Because I couldn't find it. |
[2184.76 --> 2186.34] It says it on the box though, that's the trouble. |
[2186.44 --> 2187.88] NTSC printed right on the box. |
[2188.18 --> 2189.20] Yeah, it might just be stuck. |
[2189.48 --> 2190.14] I can't remember. |
[2190.54 --> 2194.84] But the other thing too is the F, the Firewire port allows you to do a DV import and that |
[2194.84 --> 2196.82] might not be, well, either way you're probably screwed. |
[2196.92 --> 2197.56] But that is a thing. |
[2197.82 --> 2199.68] You can import off the Firewire port too. |
[2200.32 --> 2202.32] I'll play with mine after the show if I can get it to power up. |
[2202.36 --> 2203.50] I think it's totally dead though. |
[2204.32 --> 2206.56] It's been, you know, it's been a hundred years. |
[2206.56 --> 2209.42] So just one stupid little format issue. |
[2210.18 --> 2212.62] It's so dumb too that the US was NTSC. |
[2213.30 --> 2216.06] You guys across the pond were PAL. |
[2216.20 --> 2219.34] I think PAL was maybe the superior tech too, but I don't recall. |
[2219.34 --> 2221.34] I think it was 50 Hertz versus 60 Hertz. |
[2221.42 --> 2224.14] I think that was the entire reason it existed, if I recall. |
[2224.14 --> 2228.10] And then they started using it to do region locking of like VHS tapes. |
[2228.38 --> 2230.96] And I remember Xbox games back in the day. |
[2231.08 --> 2233.64] I think even 360 games were still region locked. |
[2236.28 --> 2237.78] It sounds so silly now. |
[2238.12 --> 2242.64] I mean, we still have weird issues like that, but so now you've got to make it harder is |
[2242.64 --> 2248.92] not only is you really need something that is very rare, a working mini DV player, but |
[2248.92 --> 2249.98] you need a PAL. |
[2250.54 --> 2252.60] I need a European one in America. |
[2252.60 --> 2257.92] And the stupid thing is these tapes were in Europe until my mom brought them for Christmas. |
[2259.56 --> 2264.68] You know, I know that back in the day, they used to have just little mini DV players, like |
[2264.68 --> 2268.56] a VCR that you'd put the little tape in and it would have a little HDMI out. |
[2268.76 --> 2269.54] They do exist. |
[2269.94 --> 2272.14] They're $200, $300, something like that on eBay. |
[2272.86 --> 2276.54] I think that's probably the route I'm going to have to end up going is buying one of these |
[2276.54 --> 2277.54] and then selling it on. |
[2277.66 --> 2279.62] So I'm effectively renting it for myself. |
[2279.94 --> 2281.98] You got to figure those tapes won't last much longer. |
[2282.60 --> 2283.04] Yeah. |
[2283.24 --> 2286.24] I mean, there's only a dozen of them behind me, so it won't take too long. |
[2286.30 --> 2286.96] That's the annoying thing. |
[2287.06 --> 2289.60] It's not like I'm digitizing a hundred of the damn things. |
[2289.74 --> 2293.50] Like I need a $300 doohickey to do it. |
[2293.60 --> 2293.78] Nope. |
[2293.94 --> 2294.94] It's just a... |
[2294.94 --> 2297.36] At this point, I'm kind of tempted to just pay the shop. |
[2298.00 --> 2298.22] Oh. |
[2298.30 --> 2298.50] You know? |
[2299.24 --> 2303.84] Now, have you thought about what you're going to do encoding wise? |
[2303.84 --> 2305.54] Are you going to bring these in as H.264? |
[2305.64 --> 2306.72] Do you use something else now? |
[2307.46 --> 2313.38] I'd like to try and use my new M1 Macs and try and make the fans spin up and do some video encoding. |
[2314.60 --> 2314.92] Sure. |
[2315.30 --> 2316.18] Make that thing work. |
[2316.48 --> 2317.06] Earn its keep. |
[2317.62 --> 2318.50] I agree with you. |
[2318.54 --> 2319.96] I still haven't heard the fans on this thing. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.