Newbie - Make DVD from DV Cam

[janetlee]

Hi ... Have ATI All-in-One ... Want to vid Capture home movies, encode in highest quality and lowest filesize ... Card comes with TV capture, but it doesn't allow me to pause for editing, and can only play on other ATI cards (or others must download special ATI codec). From there, will want ability to make a DVD .. I have DVDit Software, but will be buying DVD burner - so just need to know what software to capture in, including settings, format to save it, and software to convert to DivX if not possible in Vid Cap program
Thanks.
Janet

[dvdennis]

Janet,

I use Ulead DVD Movie Factory to capture, edit, and burn videos to DVD from my DV camcorder. I connect my camera with a firewire directly to my computer. It's a simple all in one solution. (Which is essential for a newbie like me). I also use a Dazzle Hollywood Bridge to capture analog videos to my dv camcorder. This way older footage can be mixed in with my dv cam footage without worrying about compatability issues.

Dennis

[MadMatty]

I would recomend going with the FIREwire also known as 1394 card of some sort. an an opperating system that can handle LARGE files (NTFS based OS) as DV unencoded will result in HUGE file's then you can encode to a high quality/ with high compresion because your source file is jus about as good as you can get.


1)The reason is that the DV captures will be pure DV quality at about 300MB/s (cards work up to 400MB/s)

2)The cards are not expensive now


Note

1)The playback of the UN-encoded may be jumpy but that is down to processing power usualy.
2)Be sure your HDD is lagde enough and that you can enable UDMA under SYSTEM HDD options for the storage HDD.
3)Some encoding software is unavle to deal with the Un encoded due to audio and video being seperate streams (or something like that, needs a video for windows plug in for DV format AVI's) but most can these days.

[techno]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOO

ATI SUCKS! bad quality u will get.

Use this card:

Hauppauge WinTV GO PCI (£40 UK) and produces NEAR DVD quality, DVD if from DV source. Use these settings:

320*240/352*288
NO RECOMPRESSION
CD Quality audio
YU12/YV12
30fps

Then, convert to MPEG2 > DIVX

DVD quality.

I done it millions of times and acheive the quality.

:)

The file size will be big when capturing so make sure u use something like AVI_IO or change the file system to NTFS

Techno