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DVD authoring/capturing

Post by canton_kid »

Ah ha, A new area.

What does everyone prefer for DVD authoring and capturing?

I'm using Tmpgenc DVD Author so far and an ATI AIW radeon 7500.

Just got a DV camcorder I am trying to figure out.
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I'm using powervcr II and a hauppauge tv tuner for capturing. But I just learned the only way to transfer to dvd is to be sure and capture files in only certain ways. I learned this by using TMPEG dvd authoring when I was trying to convert football games and burn to DVD:

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Before I was using one of the mpeg profiles and they are all 640x480, the wrong size. :;

With power vcr you need to set the capture file to one of the DV modes. Or make a custom one using the above guidelines. Power vcr can capture from a vcr, camera, etc.. And that TMPEG dvd authoring app you suggested works darn well, and it's very easy to use. thanks :)

Though power vcr seems to only be able to capture from a tv tuner, svideo or rca composite. Not sure on firewire.


You get it all figured out?

The first football games I recorded were in 640x480, so I need a way to convert them to 720x480. But the last 2 I recorded in 720x480, and using tmpeg dvd author, I converted them to dvd easily. The great thing is powervcr seperates each saved file in 600mb increments, so tmpeg uses that for the menus. Amazin! :)
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Post by canton_kid »

I don't do football :rolleyes: :)

For normall action movies I use 352x480 always. Basically anything over that is over kill. Although TRUE DVD would be higher, your source is normally not! If capturing from another DVD or from DV camcorder then it might be 720X480?

Think of it as filling a glass with water. You have 1 cup water and put it in a 1 gallon jug. It works but a little over kill, you get by just as well with a much smaller container and save space.
Or think of it as trying to fill the gallon jug, takes much more water, and if you still only want to drink just one cup, again it's over kill.

Thats what happens when making DVDs often. TV and VHS is about 352X480. The higher the resolution the Higher the bit rate you need for the same quality and that means larger file sizes. So if the source is 352X480 you could probably get great quality with about 6,000bps where as 720X480 you would need 8,000bps maybe for the same quality, and it is still only the quality of the source. Of course the higher the bit rate the larger the file sizes and that means less time on the DVD.

I been busy with alot of things which is why I haven't been here as much as I normally was. Hopefully geting caught up soon and will be back more. Lattely I haven't done any DVDs. I was knocking out about 10 or more per week for awhile. Sometimes 4 a night :)
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