How I Was Unconverted.
For a good number of years I have been collecting all my favourite films. Now, this has a good side and a bad side to it… The good side is that you are never short of something to watch (besides, some of them are such crackers that I can happily view them time and again). However, the bad part of it is that a great many of them are on VHS!
I recently invested in a gadget which I thought would solve all of my problems. It is a special ‘video capture’ device that you plug into your computers’ USB socket. With one of these baby’s you are then able to transfer all of your favourite flicks from their archaic prison of VHS to the brilliance of DVD. Cracking idea.
So, when the Postman turned up with it the other day I was really keen to get started on my mass movie converting. I plugged it all in, carried my trusty old VCR over to the computer and read through the instructions. And when I had finished educating myself, I began…
I decided to start with something short (around four minutes) as a bit of a ‘test run’. After having half a dozen unsuccessful attempts I remained sure that it was simply a case of fine-tuning the settings. However, after another five or six goes I was beginning to get a little bit frustrated. It all seemed to be unnecessarily complicated and I just couldn’t work it out. I was managing to convert the video, but it was only coming out in one of two ways; either the quality was dire or the sound and picture were great but it was ludicrously large. A film of four minutes should be around 30 or 40MB, but this (with a half decent picture) was coming out at around 6,000MB (6 GIG!!).
Time passed and my patience wore thin. I spent the next few days mucking about with the device and I tried everything I could think of; tweaking the settings, looking for help on the net and watching a ‘tutorial’ on YouTube…
But it was no good. I had wasted £25 and two and a half days of my life. My soul was bruised, my patience had been frayed and I felt like sacrificing the gadget to some dark god. It was, in a word, pants.
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