Re: OT: Recording Video to DVD Question
- From: Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:07:57 GMT
On a sunny day (Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:01:12 GMT) it happened qrk
<SpamTrap@xxxxxxxx> wrote in <io3bm3p7goi6l7rma983upce8t7e6cnkmm@xxxxxxx>:
Loaded question: "What is the best way.."
1394 output is Firewire. Kind of like USB in function, but works
better with a continuous stream of data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire
All modern Macs come with Firewire. Many modern PCs come with a
Firewire port. There are two versions of the connector. If your
computer doesn't have a Firewire port, you can get a Firewire card for
under $30. The TI and Via Firewire chipsets have worked well under
Win2k and XP.
http://tpp.janmuzik.com/tpp05.html#FW
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=firewire+pci&x=0&y=0
My perspective is from video editing. There may be handy consumer toys
to directly record video from your camera to a DVD disk and put in all
the overhead (menu structure).
Pick up some sort of video editing program. It's nice to show a edited
video sans the quick pan across the floor shots and Aunt Mable's arse.
I like Vegas, but it's pricy. There are others like Premiere and Avid
(really hard to use). Vegas, Premiere, & Avid are full featured
editors, thus, hard to use since they have tons of options. The cheapo
editors (e.g. Pinnacle) are probably are much easier to use and
hopefully work better than they did 10 years ago (they were pure crap
back then).
I notice Vegas has a cheapo version which I have never seen plus you
can download a demo version. I've only used the pro version which is a
hair puller.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/vegasfamily.asp
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/Studio+Family/
http://www.epinions.com/Pinnacle_STUDIO_PLUS_VERSION_10_HD_VIDEO_EDITING_SW_210100477/display_~reviews
Apparently, Pinnacle still sucks.
Vegas has been crash-free and has always worked well for me once I
figured out the proper settings.
The video editing programs have a capture utility which handles the
transfer from camera to computer. The camera can be remotely
controlled from the capture utility GUI via Firewire. I like to break
my video in 700MB (CD sized) chunks (this is an option in some of the
capture utilities) when I save it to my computer. A decent editor can
bring in all the chunks seamlessly. The capture utility will save your
DV video as an AVI (AVI is only a wrapper which contains some other
video format).
To make a DVD that can be played in a DVD movie player requires some
sort of utility to create the various required files (video and menu
programs). Under the Sony Vegas line, they have a program called DVD
Architect. Under DVD Architect, you can create nice menus and scene
selection. Pinnacle can create a DVD movie disk from their Studio
program, but, I have no idea if it can do nice menus with scene
selection. BTW, DVD movie disks use MPEG2 video formats and can
utilize AC3 audio (Dolby).
You need lots of disk space! 1.5 hours of DV video is about 20 GB.
When converted to MPEG2, you can get 1.5 hours to fit on a 4.3GB DVD
movie disk. Multiprocessors on your computer are helpful for those
editing programs that support multiprocessor environment.
Exactly.
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