Putting home videos from camcorder to disk

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I do not have a DVD recorder on my Sony VAIO, but would like to know how I
can put my home videos from my Sony camcorder onto a disk to be able to play
it on my DVD player that is connected to my TV. Thanks!
 
You can purchase an external DVD drive and connect it to your VAIO portable
computer and then copy to it. Probably around $150.00 with copying software
included. You can also buy the latest, fastest, fanciest little baby from
Sony, at $229.00 available here:
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INT...=cpu_Sony_PCAccessories_CD/DVDBurn_DVDBurners
This is if your VAIO is a portable computer. If it is a desktop, you can add
an internal DVD drive, available at around $80.00 so it would be much
cheaper and Sony also has such. If you don't want to do this, you can also
use an external DVD drive with your desktop as long as you have either a
USB2 or FireWire port and you probably have a least a FireWire port, just
like a portable VAIO will have.
The next step is to play the DVD disk you made with your DVD player. Easier
said than done. Lucky for you the confusion about DVD formats has been
solved (almost) by the fact that new DVD drives will copy to all DVD formats
(-R,-RW,+R,+RW and now double sided DVD). So you need to look at your DVD
player manual and see which format it can play and then copy using this
format.
For more about copying and playing DVD take a look at this site:
http://www.videohelp.com/
 
So, is it my understanding that I cannot put my home videos on a disk without
a DVD recorder to play on my home DVD player that is connected to my TV?
 
You can.

You can make a VCD, SVCD, or miniDVD. All of these are made on normal CDs.
The minidvd gives you 30 mins or so of almost dvd quality video on a normal
CD.

To makde minDVD:

1. First make sure your DVD player is OK this format. many are.
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers

2. Save your movie as DV AVI.

3. Convert it to MPEG2 using TMPGenc or bbMPEG
http://www.tmpgenc.net
http://members.cox.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html
Note the maximum bitrate should not exceed 4Mbps.

4. Author it (make menus and chapters) using DVDAuthorGUI
http://www.videohelp.com/~liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl

5. Burn the two folders created by it using your cd burning software
(Nero?).

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Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get more effects and transitions for Windows Movie Maker
 
Not if you want DVD quality (that is no degradation from your camcorder
tape).
There is another way around this.
If you have a MiniDV tape digital camcorder, you transfer the content of
the tape to your hard drive using Movie Maker 2 which is included with XP.
You do your editing with Movie Maker 2 (or other software), save the edited
file and copy the file back on a new tape. Then you play the edited tape
with your camcorder to your TV. Top quality viewing.
Just be aware that one hour of video saved to your hard drive will make a
file of 13 GB. Make sure you have the space.
 
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