chiark

I bought a plextor 708a DVD writer from Scan yesterday as I was passing. (well, as you do)

First impressions? It's a real quality bit of kit, works wonderfully and just oozes feelings of rightness. The tray eject slows down towards either extreme, which is rather nice the first time it tries.

it's recorded at 4x onto ritec DVD-R without any hassles, but I have yet to try the 8x on DVD+R. It's absolutely great for backing up, or making that installation CD that no longer fits on a CD... Bloody marvellous

I now need to upgrade the processor in my machine. I thought it was quite fast until I started messing around encoding stuff for DVD recording - still, it'll keep the grandparents happy

Cheers,
Nick

Nimbus

Hi Nick,

I just bought a Pioneer dual format DVD writer last weekend. I used to encode into SVCD but was never happy with the quality, so went for DVD. I know what you mean about encoding times. I normally leave mine running over night if it's a long project. what do you use?

Great little hobby, but spend too much time on it now (so I'm told)

Hobo_Jojo

how do u convert from divx to dvd?

chiark

It would be wrong for me to know how to do that

As you advised your friend to do in another thread, "have a google"

http://www.doom9.org is a useful place - search there for AVI2DVD as they've done an article on it.

(That advice will come back to haunt you )

Cheers,
Nick.

Hobo_Jojo

cant do a google from work

Nimbus

If you download the trial verison on TMPGEnc 2.5 Plus you can encode to DVD format (MPG2) for 30 days. I tried this on some new Divx files to SVCD and they worked fine. Should be OK to DVD to.

chiark

I'm currently in a flux as to what I'm using for the editing, as I'm still not sure what package I'm getting on best with. I am tempted by the Adobe Premiere/Encore package, but thats a) expensive and b) means I have to upgrade to XP too

It's all just expense, but it keeps me off the streets . The other thing is that you can't help but spend ages playing - it's the nature of the game.
Cheers,
nick.

Nimbus

Here's my setup...

Adobe Premiere for capture and editing.
I use a frame server to export project to TMPGEnc for encoding (best quality, but slow).
DVD-Lab for authoring (on trial at the mo, but looks good).
Nero to burn.

I've heard that Encore is v buggy.

Let me know if you need any thing.