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Creating DVD's of Home videos.....help!

post #1 of 3
10/13/03 at 7:07pm
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I am trying to convert all of my old Digital 8 home videos into DVD's using my Sager 8890. I am running into a lot of problems however.

I tried to capture via Ulead VideoStudios 6.0. It would let me see the video that was playing on my camcorder, but everytime I actually tried to capture anything, it would give me an error and tell me that the file was corrupt. Also, it didn't look like the quality was very good.

Next I tired the TV function that came installed on the computer. I couldn't figure out how to record from that (can you?). The quality looked pretty good in that.

Finally, I just tried to use Windows Movie Maker. That actually worked, but the quality was horrible, and it will only record as a WMV file. I know that I can convert it later, but did not like the quality.

I did download Windows Movie Maker 2. I heard it is better that the one that I had installed, but still not great.

So, basically my question is: Does anyone know a really good way to convert Digital 8 tapes into high quality MPEGs for recording onto a DVD?

Thanks for taking the time to read this and hopefully help.
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post #2 of 3
10/13/03 at 8:31pm
Are you connecting the camera via firewire?

Make sure you have nothing else running in the background while your caputuring.

Make sure to dump the video to a drive with tons of space, those vids will be gigabytes in size.

UseVirtualdub to capture the vid and
Tsunami to convert the avi to mpeg 2.
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post #3 of 3
10/13/03 at 9:31pm
I used ULEA'sS DVD movie factory 2 and it worked like a charm...
I actually have the full Media Studio Pro 7 ( optimized for hyperthreading) but when I tried to capture, I screwed up the settings twice.... so I tried capturing right from within dvd movie factory and it worked great.

One thing... how are you going into your computer.... your digital 8 will not have firewire methinks.... if not, then you will be going into your computer through the svideo in port.

I have a Sony TRV 950 which will automatically convert analog to digital (ex: vcr/or camcorder ....to trv 950.....through firewire....to computer already digitized.

DVD files are MPG (2 I think) files. Therefore, no matter what you capture it in (avi, .mov, wmv) you will eventually be converting it to mpg anyways. The neat thing about dvd movie factory and media studio pro 7 (if I get it working) is that you can choose to capture STRAIGHT into mpg format, so you don't have to do it later.
sorry I couldn't be more help right now.

Bob
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