Converting Video to DVD?

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Ben Blackmore

Hi,

I want to convert some old home videos to dvd, and I'm not to sure how. As
they are mostly still on the little camcorder tapes, I guess I need to
connect the camcoder to a graphics card with TV in. Trouble is, although I
know a bit about graphics cards, I don't know much about video cards with TV
out! What am I looking for? What do I need to be able to transfer my videos
to DVD?

Best regards

Ben
 
Prior to the stampede Ben Blackmore tryped...
I want to convert some old home videos to dvd, and I'm not to sure
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Irrelevant cross posting gimp

Try one of the relevant groups you didn't like .......
alt.video.dvd.authoring perhaps.

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I want to convert some old home videos to dvd, and I'm not to sure how. As
they are mostly still on the little camcorder tapes, I guess I need to
connect the camcoder to a graphics card with TV in. Trouble is, although I
know a bit about graphics cards, I don't know much about video cards with TV
out! What am I looking for? What do I need to be able to transfer my videos
to DVD?
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alt.video.dvd.tech has a lot of good discussion, but the place to learn
almost everything there is to know is at http://www.dvdrhelp.com/

I see you cross posted to almost every group possible, including the one
mentioned above. Go to the website above, you'll get your answers by
reading.
 
if you don't have anything to add to a simple question why don't you ****ing
piss off! Get a life you sad twat!
 
I thought it was a question more relevant to video cards, as its the video
card I need to know about! Trouble is there are about 6 different groups
with alt.comp.periphs.videocards so I thought I'd try them all!
 
if you don't have anything to add to a simple question why don't you
****ing piss off! Get a life you sad twat!
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Actually, he did add something constructive, although the both of you
need your mouths washed out with soap. He suggested that the OP try a
newsgroup in which he was likely to find more expertise in that
particular area than the ones that he used.
 
Look in here: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/
Also here:
http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/download/dl_file_new.jsp?dl_id=40&ProdId=20

Good luck.
Dan

if you don't have anything to add to a simple question why don't you
****ing piss off! Get a life you sad twat!
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Actually, he did add something constructive, although the both of you
need your mouths washed out with soap. He suggested that the OP try a
newsgroup in which he was likely to find more expertise in that
particular area than the ones that he used.
 
Ben Blackmore said:
Hi,

I want to convert some old home videos to dvd, and I'm not to sure
how. As they are mostly still on the little camcorder tapes, I guess
I need to connect the camcoder to a graphics card with TV in. Trouble
is, although I know a bit about graphics cards, I don't know much
about video cards with TV out! What am I looking for? What do I need
to be able to transfer my videos to DVD?
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You don't need a new graphics card.

You need:

1: A TV or video capture card with video (or S-VHS) in, depending on the
output of your camcorder. A Pinnacle PTCV or WinTV can often be found on
sale for around $30-40.
2: A DVD burner. A 4x speed burner that doubles as a CD burner can be
picked up for less than $150 these days.
3: A good video editing program. For consumers, Pinnacle Studio 8 is a
good choice, while Screenblast Movie Studio is somewhat easier to use (and
comes with "free" DVD player software) . Note that you can often combine 1
and 3 and buy a bundle with a capture card and the software for the same
price as just the software -- for Pinnacle Studio AV, this would be $100
(the same as for Studio 8 alone).

If you have an external DVD burner, you need a card with video out, or a
converter that can turn the video signal from the computer into an input
format your DVD recorder can understand. With cables and audio converter
plugs, that's probably going to cost you more than a DVD burner, even if
going for the cheapest card.

And, as others stated, you can find better answers by looking in the *right*
groups. Since you crossposted this to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox,
my initial reaction was to recommend the Matrox RT.X10 Suite, but that would
almost certainly be overkill for you.

For the future, please keep the crossposting down, and if you expect a
little effort from us in answering, at the very least expend a little effort
in finding out the correct groups to post to. People here aren't paid to
answer your questions, and it's rude to ask people for their time without
putting in ANY effort whatsoever yourself -- not even finding appropriate
groups to ask in!
 
Prior to the stampede Ben Blackmore tryped...
if you don't have anything to add to a simple question why don't you
****ing piss off! Get a life you sad twat!
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Easy tiger. I was only pushing you in the right direction. Try www.doom9.net
as well for help on conversions.

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Ben I use my DV camvcorder pass thru for that, its great, but I also use a
GF 4600 VIVO videocard, and I capture off TV or VCR and that is excellent.
The Leadtek PVR software is very good, and the high bitrayte mpg2 is very
good, ot you can capture to a DV avi, and encode with TMPGEnc, which does
give a better result. I was impressed
 
Hi Ben

I have done this before to convert some home videos so unlike some of the
rude gits that have replied so far I can help you.

First you will need an interface to capture the video. I recommend the
Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe card, it has all the connections, hardware
and software you will need.

Once you hook up a VCR to the card you will be able to record video from the
VCR (read the documentation that comes with the card to work this out).

Use the software provided to edit the videos to your liking, then create a
DVD. You will need a DVD-RW drive to burn the DVDs.

If you need anymore help you can e-mail me at
(e-mail address removed) (remove the "nospam.") I am happy to
help.

Good luck!

Chris
 
Actually, he did add something constructive, although the both of you
OK, sorry, bad day! I get a little ticked off when people post comments that
aren't helpful!

And I had posted on the suggested alt.video.dvd newsgroup and got another
useless reply i.e. "Wrong group. No regards."
Post on the video.dvd group and they say try videocard newsgroup, try them
and they say try the video.dvd
 
OK, sorry, bad day! I get a little ticked off when people post
comments that aren't helpful!


And I had posted on the suggested alt.video.dvd newsgroup and got
another useless reply i.e. "Wrong group. No regards."
Post on the video.dvd group and they say try videocard newsgroup, try
them and they say try the video.dvd
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Actually the best place to look for this kind of information is probably
rec.video.desktop or rec.video.production. And for google the keywords
you need are "video capture", "video editing", and "dvd
authoring". You'll also find good information at
"http://www.avsforum.com". A reseller site, <http://www.videoguys.com>
has some good information for beginners.

That said, it's a big question in some ways because how you go about it
depends on how good you want and how much effort you want to put into
it and how much you're willing to spend. You can sink $20K into a
professional quality video capture and editing rig easily, then spend
the next year or two learning to use it (at which point you have a
highly marketable skill in some parts of the world), or you can do
a "good enough" job for many purposes using a $50 capture board and the
software that comes with that and your DVD burner and putting a couple
of hours into figuring out the basics. Further, if you're on a budget
the cheapest way to get where you want to be depends on what you've
already got--if you've got a pretty powerful machine then the best
approach might go one way, if not it might go another, if you've got a
digital camcorder on hand already it might go a third, and so on. If you
want easy more than you want flexible then a standalone DVD recorder
might be a better bet for you than a computer-based solution. Then
there's the whole DVD+ vs DVD- thing . . .
 
If you have a DV Camcorder, that allows a pass thropugh from your
VCR/Analogue Camcorder/TV to the PC as a DV avi file, then you can easily
edit, encode, and author to DVD

Or you can buy a Analogue Capture card quite cheap, you may find the
softawre too basic and limiting, but just use decent software that allows
capture to DV avi
 
J.Clarke said:
Actually the best place to look for this kind of information is probably
rec.video.desktop or rec.video.production. And for google the keywords
you need are "video capture", "video editing", and "dvd
authoring". You'll also find good information at
"http://www.avsforum.com". A reseller site, <http://www.videoguys.com>
has some good information for beginners.

That said, it's a big question in some ways because how you go about it
depends on how good you want and how much effort you want to put into
it and how much you're willing to spend. You can sink $20K into a
professional quality video capture and editing rig easily, then spend
the next year or two learning to use it (at which point you have a
highly marketable skill in some parts of the world), or you can do
a "good enough" job for many purposes using a $50 capture board and the
software that comes with that and your DVD burner and putting a couple
of hours into figuring out the basics. Further, if you're on a budget
the cheapest way to get where you want to be depends on what you've
already got--if you've got a pretty powerful machine then the best
approach might go one way, if not it might go another, if you've got a
digital camcorder on hand already it might go a third, and so on. If you
want easy more than you want flexible then a standalone DVD recorder
might be a better bet for you than a computer-based solution. Then
there's the whole DVD+ vs DVD- thing . . .

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Wel $20k is a little bit to much to be sinking into it, maybe £50 - £100 and
it does need to be easy, so my mother can use it! I'll have a look at those
sites, see what I can find out. I was looking at the product Colon Terminus
posted the link to further down,
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ProductPage_n.asp?Product_ID=1426&Langue_ID=7
looks like it can do multiple format and is easy to use, doesn't cost to
much either. I'll have to research a bit more, see what the best solution
will be, my mother has just got a new 2.2ghz amd with 512mb ram so its quite
powerful, I think she'll want quality over speed/ease of use, as these are
old family videos, and there are a few of a late family member that I know
she wants transfered, so she'll want them good quality!

Cheers

Ben
 
Ben said:
Wel $20k is a little bit to much to be sinking into it, maybe £50 - £100
and it does need to be easy, so my mother can use it! I'll have a look at
those sites, see what I can find out. I was looking at the product Colon
Terminus posted the link to further down,
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ProductPage_n.asp?Product_ID=1426&Langue_ID=7
looks like it can do multiple format and is easy to use, doesn't cost to
much either. I'll have to research a bit more, see what the best solution
will be, my mother has just got a new 2.2ghz amd with 512mb ram so its
quite powerful, I think she'll want quality over speed/ease of use, as
these are old family videos, and there are a few of a late family member
that I know she wants transfered, so she'll want them good quality!
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Simple, cheap and good quality, pick one...
 
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