capturing vs ripping

Bebop0083 · Post by **Bebop0083** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:43 pm

right now i use a capture card but i was thinking about going into ripping. what is easier to do rip or capture and what is a longer process and whats the benefits of each one?? right now i think capturing is a longer process since i never really tried ripping. so any suggestions should i stay to capturing or go on to ripping??

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:55 pm

- that all depends on which Editor your going to be using ^^

Ripping will give you the clearest pictures but sometimes the Size of those pictures are not as large as we need them to be.

Capturing from a DVD Player will let you grab scenes when you need them and you can set the size of those pictures with a fairly good quality.

What has not been mentioned here are some of the basics:
1) Working with the Existing Codec of that Video.
2) Keeping the Audio in its original MP3 state.
3) Converting the Sample Rates.
4) removing the Interlacing as needed.
These are not covered by 96% of the Editors that have ever been made!

The choice is yours ^^ but experiment with the Editor your using before making the Capture/Ripping Question ^^

Bebop0083 · Post by **Bebop0083** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 8:19 pm

hmmmm i see your point there but ive seen some amvs that used ripping that were really good but i think capturing does have higher quality though. id like to hear some more suggestions from other people though to see what they think. ive done ripping once but at the time i didnt know what i was doing. but the video quality seemed pretty good to me though. mainly from people who used to do capturing and switched to ripping. or people who switched from ripping to capturing.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:45 pm

Ripping provides the highest quality. Ripping is very easy (at least for me). Maybe I'm just biased, but I don't own a capture card, and have never had a need for one. Only thing you could really need it for is if you have vhs or capturing somethng from tv... both of which will end up looking really bad most likely.

Lonley Driver · Post by **Lonley Driver** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 12:34 pm

You can actually make a pretty decent looking video from captured DVD footage, it really just depends on how you choose to compress it. A lot of people using capture cards don't choose proper compression settings it seems. Then again a lot can depend on your capture card, and exactly what codec you capture to.

In the long run though, you'll probably want to rip your DVD's. I don't see any advantages catpuring has to ripping DVD's unless you have a VERY small hard drive.

If you rip DVD's you can scan through footage more easily than you can with a DVD deck, and pick and choose which scenes you want to use much more efficiently, and the quality will generally be better.

For example, if you're half way through a video and you didn't capture a scene you need, you can just scan through your ripped DVD for the footage you need. To capture footage you would need to find the CD you need, put it in the DVD player, find the episode, queue up the correct footage and then capturing it in real time. (So if you want 10 minutes of footage, it will take 10 minutes to capture).

Ripping is really quite simple once you get the hang of it. I think it's definitely worth the hour or two it will take you to figure out. In the long run it will probably save you countless hours.

-David

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 1:23 pm

Well, on some videos I have seen that capture the video instead of ripping *coughKusoyarocough* the captured video really looks crappy, with way too much too much contrast or something. Also when you capture, you are converting the video from digital to analogue then back to digital, which is obviously a lossy process, as compared to working from the digital video requiring no conversion at all.

Bebop0083 · Post by **Bebop0083** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 2:12 pm

you got a point there cause when you capture it codes it as a non compressed avi file. some different programs encodes as other non compressed files like quicktime and wmv( Windows movie maker). it depends what type of program you use. i think premiere makes it quicktime im not sure ive never captured from premiere before.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:06 pm

Bebop0083 wrote:some different programs encodes as other non compressed files like quicktime

Who said Quicktime data had to be compressed?

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:43 pm

shut up trythil, there's no smart allowed in this thread

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:07 pm

trythil does have a point, the Quicktime container is not restricted to compressed video such as DivX...it could be uncompressed, you never know.