Help I'm a new user with VideoStudio

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Please help as I'm beginning to tear my hair out!!
I recently installed VideoStudio version 9.0 onto my PC. To me the instructions aren't too great ie. what format do you choose when capturing video or does it not matter? Having then captured my video I have tried on numerous ocassions to burn to a DVD and have been unsuccessful each time apart from once as the video was only a short video (I was able to see the picture on my DVD but no sound!). The annoying thing is that when you insert a blank DVD you can see clearly how much space is taken and how much space is left once your video is burnt to DVD but it goes through all the burning process (in some cases 2 hours) to be then told that it will not fit to DVD. This is also the case when I click the fit to dvd surely this should mean it should fit. HELP!!!

[skier-hughes]

For best quality you need to capture to dv-avi. What are you capturing from?

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I'm capturing from a vhs video tape. I'll look again when I get home but I'm sure that it the format that I'm choosing to capture anyway. I guess it should burn to DVD whatever format you capture? As I said earlier any help would be really appreciated I've got a moutain of vhs tapes that I want to convert to DVD.

[sjj1805]

There are some video tutorials you can watch.
They are here:

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=11540

Steve J

[Alderny]

Although Ulead’s user guide explains what steps to take, I agree it falls short on explaining the pros and cons for somebody new to the technology.

You say you are capturing from VHS tape, so you must have an analogue to digital converter (see P13 of the user guide). What type of converter are you using?

I have a digital camcorder which works very well with VS9, but sometimes I want to capture footage from my old VHS camcorder. For this I use a Canopus converter, which I can highly recommend. Basically, it makes the old VHS (analogue) camcorder look like a DV (digital) camcorder. I then use VS9 to capture to AVI files (DV input).

I then edit the captured footage, encode it to one or more MPEG files, and finally create a DVD from these.

Please refer to the Recommended Procedures which you will find here: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=27

Canopus details (if you need them) are here: http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC55/index.php

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I'm still having trouble using VideoStudio.

First off I've captured a couple of VHS tapes that have been sitting on my PC for a while. Now that I have tried inserting the file into VideoStudio to enable me to copy to DVD I get a pop up message saying the codec has expired. How do I get over this?

Secondly I've just captured 6 hours+ worth of VHS tape and want to edit it. When playing in Windows Media Player all 6 hours+ is there but as soon as it is inserted into VideoStudio I can only see just over 3 hours worth of video. Help.

I'm really starting to get peeved off with this as what I thought would be a simple job is turning out to be a right chew on and as yet I still haven't been able to get any of my VHS tapes transferred to DVD.