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Well I finally burned my first home-made dvd, made from my digital camera film clips and stills.
I got Pinnacle and tried it.
It wouldn't do it. I had about 30 or maybe more video clips in it and it complained there was only 15gigabytes of disk space.
It also complained when I tried to drag in a film clip made at 10 fps. I've got just a handful of those, attempting higher resolution in the film clips drops the frame rate to 10 from 15. Pinnacle said this couldn't be done.
So that's that for that fancy looking package. It sure looks slick and I set off thinking this was going to be it. But it wants more than 15 gig to process a three gig dvd???? Where is it coming from?
So I went back to Nero. Vision whatever.
It did it all, no problem at all. Never made a murmur of protest about anything.
It has a limit of 100 titles for the film clips. Same as a limit of 100 stills per slide show.
No worries. You can merge as many titles as you like and possibly the best thing to do is 'make a film', which I haven't tried yet.
I'm still feeling my way. I don't know if I'd rather have dozens of menu choices - i.e. different spots to enter the dvd at - or just run it as one big film or maybe two or three, maybe four divisions.
Home film clips don't come as movies, not in my house anyway. They come as little two or three minute things and that's all you want to know about that thing.
And amongst this myriad of clips there's a few that we don't want in a dvd we'll send out to the rellies. Bit of family nudity in the bath with the kids, mainly. So if I merge everything in and then find I've included one of those clips or an included clip has a few frames like that - then I guess I'll have a bit of a job getting at it to get it out.
But Nero seems to have done it fine and there's transitions I haven't looked at yet and there's some kind of voice recording I noticed but didn't use.
The only complaint is the rendering of the movie clips. They look a bit coarse to me. I feel they were better before - i.e. as svcd or as played straight from the camera into the t.v. But all that might be my imagination.
I'd like to know what the experts have to say. They all seem to want to avoid burning with Nero. Is that because I'd get a better picture burning with something else? Seems unlikely to me, but I know nothing.
I'll see if I can get one or two of these other packages and try them out.
regards,
ab
I got Pinnacle and tried it.
It wouldn't do it. I had about 30 or maybe more video clips in it and it complained there was only 15gigabytes of disk space.
It also complained when I tried to drag in a film clip made at 10 fps. I've got just a handful of those, attempting higher resolution in the film clips drops the frame rate to 10 from 15. Pinnacle said this couldn't be done.
So that's that for that fancy looking package. It sure looks slick and I set off thinking this was going to be it. But it wants more than 15 gig to process a three gig dvd???? Where is it coming from?
So I went back to Nero. Vision whatever.
It did it all, no problem at all. Never made a murmur of protest about anything.
It has a limit of 100 titles for the film clips. Same as a limit of 100 stills per slide show.
No worries. You can merge as many titles as you like and possibly the best thing to do is 'make a film', which I haven't tried yet.
I'm still feeling my way. I don't know if I'd rather have dozens of menu choices - i.e. different spots to enter the dvd at - or just run it as one big film or maybe two or three, maybe four divisions.
Home film clips don't come as movies, not in my house anyway. They come as little two or three minute things and that's all you want to know about that thing.
And amongst this myriad of clips there's a few that we don't want in a dvd we'll send out to the rellies. Bit of family nudity in the bath with the kids, mainly. So if I merge everything in and then find I've included one of those clips or an included clip has a few frames like that - then I guess I'll have a bit of a job getting at it to get it out.
But Nero seems to have done it fine and there's transitions I haven't looked at yet and there's some kind of voice recording I noticed but didn't use.
The only complaint is the rendering of the movie clips. They look a bit coarse to me. I feel they were better before - i.e. as svcd or as played straight from the camera into the t.v. But all that might be my imagination.
I'd like to know what the experts have to say. They all seem to want to avoid burning with Nero. Is that because I'd get a better picture burning with something else? Seems unlikely to me, but I know nothing.
I'll see if I can get one or two of these other packages and try them out.
regards,
ab
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