Converting Video to DVD?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ben Blackmore
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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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There's a bit more expensive product that works in a similar manner with
Firewire that has more third-party support than the Dazzle you're looking
at. Take a look at the Canopus ADVC-100. If you are _not_ running XP then
the ADVC-50 or ADVC-1394 would also do the job for less money, but they
have some kind of problem with XP service pack 1 that Canopus and Microsoft
haven't been able to resolve.

The earlier Dazzle devices had some limitations due to the low bandwidth of
USB 1.x--the one you're looking at uses 2.0 so it might resolve those
issues. There's also a general compatibility issue--firewire is an
accepted standard for communicating with digital video devices and just
about any piece of decent video-editing software out there can use it and
so should be able to deal with one of the Canopus products. USB 2.0 may
become such a standard in the future but it is not there yet, and so
support for devices attached via USB is less common.

There's another place to look for information by the way,
<http://www.dvdrhelp.com>
 
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