camcorder to pc to DVD or VCD

[LT. Columbo]

I do have one other question though:


I ripped 2 hours of video and while ripping I had the rip slit into 8 chapters.
Now for the moment I am just playing with 1 of the 8 chapters and so far it was converted into a 2.9 gig file. If it creats a file so large how will I get the whole 2 hours of video all 8 chapters on 1 DVD?

yeah that's absolutely ridiculous. what i'd be doing is (and i know this might be a pain now) compressing the 8 pieces to divx using virtualdub first, this will provide normal file sizes and maintaining reasonable quality. then use these 8 pieces to encode, then author. at the authoring stage they can all be joined easily. Otherwise you may want to re-rip the whole video as one and then convert that to divx then encode, and author. it's up to you. myself, i'd re-rip the whole thing.

[photo_angel2004]

When I rip the whole thing again it takes up a bit over 22 gigs.
I still do not get how 2 hours of .avi take up over 22 gigs. If I go from .AVI to DIVX and then to MPEG-2 then to the DVD what will that do to the quality?

What about Shrink should I maybe shrink them ?

[LT. Columbo]

you have an UNCOMPRESSED .avi that is why, and shrink won't help you here, not yet. try one of those 8 pieces in virtualdub compressing to divx or xvid and see the quality. compress the audio to something like LAMEmp3 too--it won't take that long. the outcome should be quite good.

[photo_angel2004]

Well It now plays on my Toshiba but with no sound.

When I play it on my pc there is sound.
Just not when play in the toshiba. But the picture looks great and it plays on MY DVDplayer.
Unlike the other usless software I was using so I am getting somewhere.

Thanks

Oh how I wish this was from a digital cam that rcoreded right to a DVD.

[photo_angel2004]

I got IT!!!!!

Oh there is a GOD after all!!

Ok once I saved the video in an .ISO file the file size is 628mb

The sound is there! Silly me I forgot about my setting on my DVD player and reciever. I set it to PCM and wouldnt you know it there is sound after all.

many many thanks to LT. Columbo and paglamon for getting me through this.

** I am no longer a virgin to home video**

Bowing to the Gods of Digital Video! LOL

now I just have to do this for the rest of the 8 chapters and 4 more 2 hours tapes. LOL at least now I know how. Thank you so much.

[LT. Columbo]

that's excellent news! glad we could help

P.S. i may be a lot of things, but certainly not a god!

[photo_angel2004]

that's excellent news! glad we could help

P.S. i may be a lot of things, but certainly not a god!

Well after beating my head into a wall for 4 days and scrapng out 17 DVD's, today you are a god to me. LOL

[LT. Columbo]

now if only i could get my wife to say that!

[photo_angel2004]

now if only i could get my wife to say that!

well one out of two aint bad LOL

[paglamon]

@Columbo, what format do u capture in?And resolution?I do it as avi with MJPEG.Gives me about 8:1 compression at Picvideo MJPEG 80% quality.

[LT. Columbo]

lol. my software is very poor and the only way i get anything i can live with is basic mpeg-1. using anything else produces jerky playback (dropped frames like you say)

[ajp]

How I capture from my camcorder or VCR

I use a ATI All-In-Wonder card (PCI version)
Pinnacle Studio 10, capture as mpeg-2
use Sony DVD Architect to make menus
DVD Rebuilder to shrink it and run filters.

[paglamon]

Thnx Columbo and ajp for ur info.
@ajp,AFAIK,capturing in mpeg(1 or 2) is not advised if u want to edit ur video.They get degraded easily.AVI is more resillient to degradation.This is my reason to capture in AVI.What do u say?