DVD Recorders

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Has anyone used a DVD recorder to transfer a PowerPoint presentation to DVD?
If so, what quality did you get?

I'm not asking about DVD drives that can burn DVDs too. I'm asking about
free-standing DVD recorders that are designed to make DVDs from videotapes
or even television broadcasts. My computer has a A/V Out jack, and I have a
cable that connects my computer to my TV set, so I can display presentations
on TV. I'm wondering whether I can use the same cable and a DVD recorder to
make DVDs, without having to go through the process of converting
presentations to avi's before burning them to DVDs.
 
Yes, I use a Philips DVDR985 (though I've had it for a while and I would
think it's out of date now).
All DVD recorders should have an S-video input for best quality from a PC
A/V output.
Be aware that DVD recorders usually create a menu system for navigation
around clips. I get around this by ripping the DVD to the PC, removing the
menus or creating my own menus and then reauthoring as a DVD.
 
I have downloaded video from my analog video camera
tonight but the files are too large (2Gbyte for 1 minute).
I have tried to change the frames / second setting and
compression type but no luck (kept getting messages that
the compression type was not supported).

It works no problems with my digital camera which takes
short movie (avi) files so I assuume the problem is the
analog format of the video camera creates too large a
file.

If you have any luck please advise.

Regards

Murray
 
Although you say you've experimented with compression it sounds like you're
creating uncompressed avi files, which are indeed about 1GB per 30 seconds
at full resolution and frame rate. Even most of the professional non-linear
editing systems compress video to some extent to make files more manageable.
The files from your digital camera will be compressed, probably using MPEG4
compression.
The only other reason I can think of for such large files, if not
uncompressed, is frame size. This should be no bigger than 720x576 (PAL) or
720x480 (NTSC) if capturing from a standard video source.
What are you using to capture? What is the intended purpose for the clips?
 
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