Capture Straight to DVD.

[tycapel7]

Hi, could you tell me please if it is possible to capture straight to a DVD. It doesnt matter if i only capture in mpeg format, its just that last time i captured to my hard drive and when i came to delete the large file it took 2 gig of free space with it. I did try to find the file to try and sort it out but no luck im afraid. Does anyone know why that happened and can i capture straight to DVD. Thankyou.

Bobby.

[kebrinton]

Tycapel7 --

You can't capture straight to DVD because your DVD-R isn't a floppy or hard drive, but is an optical drive. You're not "copying" when you put video on a DVD; you're "burning."

Possibly that 2GB of "free space" you lost was your deleted video sitting in your Recycle Bin! You'd want to delete it twice to get that back.

Keith

[GeorgeW]

MovieFactory 3.0 DC has a "Direct-to-Disc" function that captures and burns directly to disc. I don't know if it's available in the Authoring package that is part of VS8 -- does it have a name like "Direct-to-disc"?

[DVDDoug]

Hi, could you tell me please if it is possible to capture straight to a DVD.

Maybe... Depending on your operating system and/or burning software, you might be able to make your DVD "look like" a hard drive.

But if you are truly "capturing" (analog), it's probably going to be more trouble than it's worth. If the DVD can't keep-up with the real-time analog video, you'll get dropped frames, etc. If you're using a video capture card with a built-in hardware MPEG encoder, you might might be OK, because the CPU and databus can concentrate on feeding a constant data stream to the DVD burner.

At best, you'll get a DVD with one big MPEG file. The files won't be properly "structured" as a video DVD. (It might play on some DVD players.) You'd probably want to transfer it to a computer and author a DVD later anyway.

i came to delete the large file it took 2 gig of free space with it.

Weird! As far as I know, I haven't had that problem... I have a big enough hard drive that I might not notice 2G lost. I assume that you've emptied the recycle bin... Have you tried "Disk Cleanup"? Maybe do a search for all files over 500MB or so????

[tycapel7]

Thankyou very much for all your help, there's more to this capturing thing than i thought, never mind im willing to learn..

Regards, Bobby.

[maddrummer3301]

Hi,
The process does require an efficient machine.

There are a few methods to capture directly to a DVD.
Ulead is using the -VR mode which uses a DVD-RW disk.
Other programs use the +VR mode (DVD+RW).
The -VR mode is editable. The +VR mode you can only basically edit
the menu structure add/delete videos.
The -VR mode is the same mode that Panasonic uses on the Dvd-ram disks.
The -VR mode is the same mode that Sony can use for DVD-RW disks. Sony
can also write the +VR format (DVD+RW).
The -VR mode creates one large container(file) on the disk to hold all the
videos. The -VR mode uses playlists instead of chapters.

The disk has to be prepared first and shouldn't contain any data on it.

Another method they call "Direct To Disk" is the video is actually recorded
to the harddisk, next step is create a menu (Yes/No), create and burn.
A stepping process.


MD

[htchien]

MovieFactory 3.0 DC has a "Direct-to-Disc" function that captures and burns directly to disc. I don't know if it's available in the Authoring package that is part of VS8 -- does it have a name like "Direct-to-disc"?

For the Direct-to-disc feature of DVDMF 3 DC, you can check the following.

Ulead Learning Cneter - Ulead DVD MovieFactory - Copy VHS or DV tape to DVD with Direct to Disc:
http://www.ulead.com/learning/dmf/dmf3_01_1.htm

However, it's only available in DVDMF 3 DC. The disc authoring module in UVS does not include this feature.

http://www.ulead.com/dmf/compare.htm


Dear MD:

DVDMF 3 DC supports both +/-VR disc mode. In DVDMF 3 DC, it supports to direct-to-disc to DVD-Video/DVD-VR/DVD+VR.

In DVDMF 3 DC it can capture the video directly to the DVD without using the hard disk space, which is another feature called On-Disc-Editing.

For more information, you can check http://www.ulead.com/dmf/compare2.htm

Hope this helps.

H.T.