![]() In this step, I cropped the top and bottom black bands from the letterboxed video and scaled up the video to fit to an anamorphic DVD widescreen format. The next step was to transcode the saved AVI video to DVD (MPEG) video. Then I came back, saved that video, flipped the disc, and continued on to capturing side B. The disc was two-sided, so I started the recording and moved on to another task while this was capturing. Now I was finally able to open Adobe Premiere and capture the video from the laserdisc. But guess what? Laserdisc technology was analog, so I was only able to use composite video out from the laserdisc player! For this, I already had a Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge for transferring video from VHS. At the time, Firewire 400 was the standard digital interface for video. I already had built a recording studio in the Center for Research in Language at UC San Diego equipped with audio and video editing tools. Fortunately, the Department of Linguistics at UC San Diego had a large library of laserdiscs and a few players available, so they generously loaned me a player for the duration it took me to transfer this to a digital format. Next, the challenge was to find a player. I jumped on eBay and found a laserdisc quite easily. Plus, I wanted the uncropped widescreen video. I already had the VHS, but I wanted a higher quality print. My first goal was to get a laserdisc copy of this movie. ![]() The entire film, presented in widescreen (4:3 letterboxed), can be viewed on YouTube at. You have to remember that in the year 1995, there were no wide screens in homes, so everything was formatted to fit a 4:3 screen. The laserdisc had the advantage of being in widescreen format (4:3 letterboxed). As far as I know, all VHS copies were full screen (4:3). The film, only available on VHS and laserdisc, has long been out of print. This article documents my method in creating my own DVD of Home Of The Brave using technologies available in the year 2005.įans of Laurie Anderson in search of a DVD of Home Of The Brave are probably out of luck. ![]()
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