I HAVE JUST GOT DVD MAKER USB2 (KWORLD), WHICH CAME WITH ULEAD MOVIE MAKER 4. I HAVE MANAGED TO CAPTURE MY VIDEO TAPE ONTO MY LAPTOP. WHEN I TRIED TO PUT IT ONTO A DVD, IT FAILED TWICE. I USED A DIFFERENT BLANK DVD, WHICH WORKED BUT WHEN I PLAYED IT BACK, IT FROZE. ALSO THE PICTURE QUALITY WAS VERY POOR. I ALSO TRIED USING NERO SOFTWARE, BUT IT DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE FILE. I THINK THE FILE EXTENSION IS .DWZ.
CAN ANYONE HELP?
Thanks
Jeff
TRANSFERRING VCR TO DVD
I assume this is an MPEG-only capture device. There should be a .MPG file that contains the video. You should be able to play the MPG file with Windows Media Player. The .DWZ file a project file and it just contains the instructions for Movie Factory... Telling it where to trim the video and where to put the chapters, what format to use for the menu background, etc.
Analog capture is tricky, and some of these devices don't seem to do a very good job. Most capture devices come with their own capture software, and it's generally best to use the software that's specifically made to work with the hardware. (Once you have a digital video file on your hard drive, you can use the software of your choice.)
Perhaps your laptop is not fast enough to keep-up with the streaming video-data. Unlike a "regular" digital-data transfer, the real-time video keeps streaming-in even if the computer can't keep up. (The operating system is multitasking in the background, even if you are ony running one application.) Maybe it only has a USB-1 connection.
If you did any editing, try making an unedited DVD (assuming the raw MPEG file seems OK). MPEGs can sometimes get corrupted during editing.
Note - The Ulead programs seem to be very sensitive to any small defects in the MPEG file. (All of the MPEG files that have given me trouble have played-back OK.)
Analog capture is tricky, and some of these devices don't seem to do a very good job. Most capture devices come with their own capture software, and it's generally best to use the software that's specifically made to work with the hardware. (Once you have a digital video file on your hard drive, you can use the software of your choice.)
Perhaps your laptop is not fast enough to keep-up with the streaming video-data. Unlike a "regular" digital-data transfer, the real-time video keeps streaming-in even if the computer can't keep up. (The operating system is multitasking in the background, even if you are ony running one application.) Maybe it only has a USB-1 connection.
If you did any editing, try making an unedited DVD (assuming the raw MPEG file seems OK). MPEGs can sometimes get corrupted during editing.
Note - The Ulead programs seem to be very sensitive to any small defects in the MPEG file. (All of the MPEG files that have given me trouble have played-back OK.)
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No time to think.
It's like the whole world's
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