Getting my track vids onto PC / DVD
 

Want to do this this weekend. Have a firewire setup and a sony camera. The standard software is ****e, basically.

Whats best for getting it off the camera, cleaning it up and editing it, and getting it onto DVD / as an mpeg / whatever??

I had some software about £20 worth but would only create a CVD and very basic but played on my DVD OK ;) but for £60 "Ulead software" looked impressive on the box but never tried it :rolleyes: "you pays yer money"

Tony

i typically use MovieMaker 2 then encode in TMPG then author in DVDLAB...

or if you don't want to edit you could just grab the raw avi (with MM2 or DVIO) and convert to MPEG2 (using TMPG) then again use DVDLAB (or even Nero) ..

gah all these programs :D

Is there not one program that does it all? I heard pinnacle studio was quite good?

Ive tried all of the above but i normally use studio 8.10 which works a treat. Just plug the dv camcorder in the firewire port, capture, scene detect & edit if needed then burn to disc. If you want to do dvd menus & titles i think you need the full version of studio, if not i think they were giving the "light" version away free with packs of blank cdr`s in pcworld.

cheers Andy

excellent, presumably you mean pinnacle studio??

cheers

Ed

yep pinnacle studio 8, annoying thing is, as soon as i bought it studio 9 came out.

The finished quality from studio is very good, but if you have a long vid to render
it can take a while ( well on my 1.2 gig athlon it does )

cheers andy

great thanks for that!

thats why people buy standalone DVD-R machines ..

I've used Pinnacle Studio 8 for a while, and have just upgraded to V9. Does eveything you've asked for, plus a lot more besides. Excellent bit of software for the money, and produces much higher quality output than the Ulead products IMHO (I've tried both).

Iain

studio9, quite easy to use and good results too...with very little effort :)

great, off to pc world then :D

If you want you can send it over here. I have a full DVD authoring capability. Can produce you a studio quality disc with all the gubbins :)