Hi,
I have spent all day capturing and editing HDV on my computer. WHen I try to Make DVD as per the help file. It displays that 30 hrs to complete. The process defined in the help file is: After capturing, Click on File on the menu then click on Create, then Media Files, then Options and select Format as NTSC DVD, then Save the file. When I do this, it starts saving the file but it goes real slow, the counter displays 30 hours left.
Please let me know if there is a faster way to create dvds. My computer is:
AMD Opteron 275 Dual Core
2 GB Cosair Memory rating 2.3.2.6
Raid 0 on SCSI 370 Plenty of HDD space empty.
OS: XP64 with sp
Thanks i n advance.
Please Help Burning DVD after capture from HDV
You haven't said how long your files is. Just to check I am creating a video file the way you described.
I have a 7 minute file (approx), the window says it will take approx 23 minutes to create the file.
I have a P4 3.0G with 3Gig memory and 1 80Gig, 1 200Gig and 1 250Gig hard drives. Operating System Win XP Pro W/SP2
You might want to set your camera to down convert to SD when capturing to your computer and then create the video file.
I have a 7 minute file (approx), the window says it will take approx 23 minutes to create the file.
I have a P4 3.0G with 3Gig memory and 1 80Gig, 1 200Gig and 1 250Gig hard drives. Operating System Win XP Pro W/SP2
You might want to set your camera to down convert to SD when capturing to your computer and then create the video file.
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seaharrior
Hi, thanks for the reply.
I have captured 40 miutes of video from the HDV camcorder. The size on my HDD is 5.5GB after the capture. As per Ulead Notes, I guess there is no option to Burn. First I have to convert through Export option.
I did not downgrade it from my Cam because I will be reusing the HDV cassets for recording over, so I wanted to have HDV quality on my DVD. The best buy guys told me that I will have the HDV quality on the DVD.
Regards
I have captured 40 miutes of video from the HDV camcorder. The size on my HDD is 5.5GB after the capture. As per Ulead Notes, I guess there is no option to Burn. First I have to convert through Export option.
I did not downgrade it from my Cam because I will be reusing the HDV cassets for recording over, so I wanted to have HDV quality on my DVD. The best buy guys told me that I will have the HDV quality on the DVD.
Regards
You will not get HDV quality when you conver to DVD, your quality will appear to be better than DV(SD) because you are starting with a higher quality picture. I have a problem with sales people at the discount stores, most of them will tell you anything to get a sale.
If you want to perserve your video in HD then you should read: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=9854
John has put a lot of research in the tutorial and it is very usefull.
As to your rendering times I'm not sure what to tell you but, 40 minutes of video should take approximately 2:40 when converting to HD Video. I don't know how long it would take to convert to standard definition (SD)
As I said in my previous post is 1 minute of HD video takes approximately 4 minutes of computer time to render to SD.
Your computer shouldn't take 30 hours to make a SD video file.
If you want to perserve your video in HD then you should read: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=9854
John has put a lot of research in the tutorial and it is very usefull.
As to your rendering times I'm not sure what to tell you but, 40 minutes of video should take approximately 2:40 when converting to HD Video. I don't know how long it would take to convert to standard definition (SD)
As I said in my previous post is 1 minute of HD video takes approximately 4 minutes of computer time to render to SD.
Your computer shouldn't take 30 hours to make a SD video file.
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seaharrior
tyamada,
Thank you very much for your time and input.
I was finally able to create DVD in 4 hours. Looks like Ulead has a bug in their software it shows 30hours for about half or 1 hour then it changes. Before I waited for 10 minutes or so and cancelled thinking it will really take that long.
BUt your are right,the DVD SuCkEd when it came to quality. I hate Mofo. sales Guys that lie to sell, can't beleive even Best Buy have people like that, I hope someone Rip them Off. they were so confident in telling me that "As long as you have HDV capture software, You won't loose HDV quality" and stupid me.. thinking that if the camera can capture HDV quality in 60 minutes on same tape almost as miniDV, then I guess the software can also have same quality when played back on DVD.
I mean theres no point of having a HDV camera when you can't put that quality on DVD and spend hours converting down to DVD quality. I guess my luck..
But again, thanks a lot for directing me to the Article, looks interesting and I will give it a try. Glimpsing on the article seems like I might have to buy a Divx complaint player, the only problem is, my home videos I send them to my relatives and am sure not everyone will buy divx.. Thanks again.
Thank you very much for your time and input.
I was finally able to create DVD in 4 hours. Looks like Ulead has a bug in their software it shows 30hours for about half or 1 hour then it changes. Before I waited for 10 minutes or so and cancelled thinking it will really take that long.
BUt your are right,the DVD SuCkEd when it came to quality. I hate Mofo. sales Guys that lie to sell, can't beleive even Best Buy have people like that, I hope someone Rip them Off. they were so confident in telling me that "As long as you have HDV capture software, You won't loose HDV quality" and stupid me.. thinking that if the camera can capture HDV quality in 60 minutes on same tape almost as miniDV, then I guess the software can also have same quality when played back on DVD.
I mean theres no point of having a HDV camera when you can't put that quality on DVD and spend hours converting down to DVD quality. I guess my luck..
But again, thanks a lot for directing me to the Article, looks interesting and I will give it a try. Glimpsing on the article seems like I might have to buy a Divx complaint player, the only problem is, my home videos I send them to my relatives and am sure not everyone will buy divx.. Thanks again.
As DVD, today, is strictly non-HD, I suggest you go about things in two stages.
1. Import your HDV and do your editing. On the timeline, Create a new AVI video file at 720 x 480 x 29.97i (NTSC) or 576 x 25i (PAL) using whichever low-loss codec you prefer, such as HuffYUV or even DV. Check it on a TV (not computer) monitor.
2. Use the new AVI file to create the DVD in your authoring app.
HD DVDs, of any type, are unlikely to become mainstream for a year or two yet, because
a) burners too expensive
b) blanks FAR too expensive
c) non-availability of reasonably-priced players
d) battle between Blu-ray and H-DVD not resolved
e) no standard available.
1. Import your HDV and do your editing. On the timeline, Create a new AVI video file at 720 x 480 x 29.97i (NTSC) or 576 x 25i (PAL) using whichever low-loss codec you prefer, such as HuffYUV or even DV. Check it on a TV (not computer) monitor.
2. Use the new AVI file to create the DVD in your authoring app.
HD DVDs, of any type, are unlikely to become mainstream for a year or two yet, because
a) burners too expensive
b) blanks FAR too expensive
c) non-availability of reasonably-priced players
d) battle between Blu-ray and H-DVD not resolved
e) no standard available.
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