I just took some videos from my vacation trip and wanted to put them on DVD's so I could send them to my family. Anyways, my question is that I have four Hi-8 tapes and together they are roughly 8 hrs long. I captured the videos to my HDD and now they take up a little over 4 gigs of space. Now which program would I use to put all the videos on one DVD and be able to play them on my DVD player? I dont want to end up using 4-5 dvd-r's for this project. Any ideas? Thanks.
If you don’t plan on editing out your video first and rendering it will probably have to be recompressed, Authoring programs are very picky about video standards and wont except captured video.. Some video editors you can use are “Ulead’s, Video studio 7”, “Sonic Foundry’s, Vegas Video” If you want to skip the editing and get straight to authoring I highly recommend “Sonic Foundry’s DVD Architect its easy to use for novice’s and has professional features but most important it will render your video for you if its out of spec…With DVD Architect you can optimize the DVD to try to make it fit On to disk, but if you cant get the size right then you can always use “DVD shrink” GOOD LUCK
Vegas 4 produces amazinf results when authoring your home video. You can edit it quite a lot too. Chris
I just bought TMPGEnc DVD Authoring software and I have added my videos and it does not limit the video to its length but instead to its size. Has anyone tried this piece of software before? Thanks.
Yup, here is the user guide: http://www.chrismccann.co.uk Click on >> User Guides >> TMPGEnc DVD Author
DsS-WaR Please remember, you can usually only get 2hrs of good quality video on a DVD. After that, quality starts to suffer. I think youa are expecting the impossible in trying to get 8hrs on a single DVD. HomerJ
HomerJ, Well I have accomplished the IMPOSSIBLE!! I got 8+ hrs of DVD Quality video on ONE DVD-R. What do you have to say about that? Peace out
Used TMPGEnc DVD Authoring program (even added a cool menu) and got all 8+ hrs of video on one DVD-R. The quality is perfect on my 32" Sony Wega. If someone needs step by step instructions, I wouldn't mind helping you out. Thanks.
I want really know how you put 8+ hrs of DVD quality video on one DVD-R (5) just lol. Do you even know what DVD quality means?
DsS-War - I hate to tell you this, but you did now put 8hours of DVD VOB's onto a DVD R disc and retain quality. In fact, the quality would be absolutely awful and no matter what you come back and say it is, I know its awful because i tried putting 6 hours on one DVD and was compressing at a ridiculous rate. Jake - i liked the 14" TV thing - quite funny Chris
Jake- keep in mind I'm not the one trying to put 8 hours onto one DVD. I strip out [bold]everything[/bold] to keep from compressing the movie if need be.
Im not sure what you mean Ken, and i know you know what you are talking about. But are you trying to say that you can put 8 hours of DVD Video onto one disc without compressing by much?? I don't think you are, but just clarify that for me will ya Chris
You are correct Chris. I know better than that. What I'm saying is this: - to DsS-WaR: there is no way to get DVD quality from hi8, let alone 8 hours of DVD quality onto a DVD-R. - to Jake: With DVD2one I strip everything extra out of the movie (directors comments, deleted scenes, extra soundtracks) and often am left with very little compression. Then I test it on my 43" Sony to make sure I am satisfied with the results.
Why you don't just rip those with SmartRipper etc. and compress the movie excample CCE Basic what compress movie much better quality and software is approximately same price than DVD2one. And authoring with IfoEdit..
