Video 8mm burn to DVD

GuyL · Post by **GuyL** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:15 am

paulwho wrote:Thank you all who helped me with this problem. I didn't know about AVI / DV type 1 files were needed for burning. Have been using Mpeg capture.
Cheers... Paul

You only need to capture in AVI/DV if you plan on editing. If you are not then capturing directly to MPEG will save you a lot of time. Just make sure your capture is DVD compliant so you don't have to render it again.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:15 pm

Just to round of what Guy has said above.
Capture to MPEG if you don't intend to do any editing AND you either have a hardware MPEG encoder or a computer that will make NASA proud.

Normal capture methods are to DV type 1 (AVI) and occupy about 13GB per hour. Most computers when converting that to DVD compliant MPEG2 will take between a hour and half to 3 hours to complete this task.

From this consider the implications of attempting to convert "on the fly."

GuyL · Post by **GuyL** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:54 pm

sjj1805 wrote:.... or a computer that will make NASA proud."

Now that's funny! I have to remember that one, Steve.