Gepetto wrote:It is pretty easy, though, especially when compared to the mess of deinterlacing PAL footage. And if you don't care about pre-processing, even VirtualDub is unnecessary. DirectShowSource() alone does the trick of loading int editors without mayhem.
I've always found that uncomfortably laggy. For XviD and DivX source, I just used VirtualDub straight up and I exported 5-30 second long segments to Huffy and later Lagarith for easy editing in Premiere. It had the advantage of still being hard drive efficent and I just personally found seeking in Vdub easier than in Premiere for large lengths of video. But that last part is just personal taste.
h.264 came out and it's as easy as using the VirtualDubMod DirectShowSource templete to get in and to export segments to lossless. And some of these h.264 files you can get are as good as DVD, sometimes a lot better if you considder that some R1's are aweful or just bad transfers. No inverse telecine because it's done for you. No filtering, it's done for you.
Let's face it, most of the noobs arn't going to be using DVDs and using DVD footage right isn't a simple thing to teach, especially when someone doesn't have a general knowledge of computer video.
The current state of things is a lot of fansubs being used in WMM with DivX logos in the corners and subtitles at the bottom while confused people ask on the forums every day 'How do I shot h.264???' The answer to the question is easy but no one's done anything to make the answer accessable. Instead we tell them to 'Read the guide!' like a lame priest saying 'Just look in the good book' so he doesn't have to do any real work. I don't think they necessarily need to be taught color spaces and frame rates first off when what they should be learning first is 'How to composte your video' not 'Advanced Placement DVD Ripping' which is what the guide basicly is.