Capture,Edit,Video File,Burn Properties ?

[sportswizdan]

Hello Everyone...
I am capturing video from a dv camcorder with a fire wire connection. I capture to DV-AVI and will be doing alot of editing and transitions and will eventually output to DVD. My project properties are:

NTSC 29.97
Microsoft AVI Files
24 Bits, 720X480, 29.97
Lower Field First
DV Video Encoder-Type 1
DV Audio-NTSC, 48.000 KHZ, 16 Bit, Stereo

Yes, I will edit with the exact same properties. My question is... I know that when I burn to DVD that I will change to Mpeg2 in my file format setting for encoding. BUT... WHEN I CREATE MY VIDEO FILE...Should I keep the settings the same as above and still render it as a AVI File, or should I change it to Mpeg files at this time? Also do the rest of these seetings sound accurate?Thanks to everyone in advance

[62cwil]

This may sound like over simplification but I read all of these things about settings all the time. I use a Cannon Mini-DV Optura 40 and firewall to the program. I select capture DV-1, do what I want to do and anytime it asked me do I want properties to stay same I say yes.

Since October I have made probably 25 movies of family and grandkids doing sports and they have all came out perfect.

I guess if you are a professional and looking for the most perfect outcome these setings are for you, but in my case everybody who has seem my movies, including two professional video production persons they say wow that is great, what program do you use.

Anyway good luck

[rwindeyer]

First of all, your settings sound fine.

Re avi or mpeg: that's a good way to start an argument Different people here do it both ways, and there's no "right" way; it's really for you to decide.
Advantages of rendering to avi:
1) Easier on the computer. It just has to collate all the data and assemble it in one file.
2) It is then easy to export the file back to tape - some folk like to archive their projects that way.
3) {In my case} You can export the avi file to another application which transcodes and burns very nicely.
4) Possibly less likely to get audio/video sync problems.
Advantages of rendering to mpeg:
1) If you (a) select the project properties, bitrate etc carefully and accurately, and (b) check "do not render compliant files" when in the burning module, the file is "DVD ready". The burning process is much shorter. The Creating Video File takes longer (transcoding takes a while whenever you do it) but this sequence probably does save a bit of time overall.