First steps in transferring analog videos to DVD

[Guest]

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Hi-
I, like many others, want to transfer my analog home videos to DVD.

I really don't have a lot of time to fool around with much editing right
now; so, what I want to do, is simply capture the analog video and audio and
compress to mpeg and put the hour long file on a DVD+R for archiving. (Once
on DVD, I can finally make a backup copy.)


I figure I can go back later and take this file and do the whole DVD
authoring bit- edit it, make a DVD menu and put it on a DVD so that a
standard home player will play it.

I've done some video capture with the ATI software that came with my DVD+R
drive (or was it the ATI TV card with vido imput that supplied it?), and it
looks OK.

My question concerns the compression step. I have heard that this can be
done with varying degress of quality. What should I do to be able to get rid
of the original tapes and know that I have good copies?

Thanks
Richard

 

[Tony]

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When you capture, it will probably be to mpg2, i.e.capture and compession on
the fly
When I did this, I captured via a passthrough on my DV camera, then I
encoded at best bitrates ,i,e, 8000, my basis was I wanted best quality
I can also captuyre on my GF4600 VIVO card, like yours, it captures to mpg2,
so again, use the highest bitrate, that will still allow about 70 mins per
DVD. As regards your question on compression, the abive is the best quality
option, i.e. lowest compession

Hope this helps a little, feel free to ask anything

Tony




"Richard Otter" <sorry@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:WeHHc.13179$Sk.10396@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com...
> Hi-
> I, like many others, want to transfer my analog home videos to DVD.
>
> I really don't have a lot of time to fool around with much editing right
> now; so, what I want to do, is simply capture the analog video and audio
> and
> compress to mpeg and put the hour long file on a DVD+R for archiving.
> (Once
> on DVD, I can finally make a backup copy.)
>
>
> I figure I can go back later and take this file and do the whole DVD
> authoring bit- edit it, make a DVD menu and put it on a DVD so that a
> standard home player will play it.
>
> I've done some video capture with the ATI software that came with my DVD+R
> drive (or was it the ATI TV card with vido imput that supplied it?), and
> it
> looks OK.
>
> My question concerns the compression step. I have heard that this can be
> done with varying degress of quality. What should I do to be able to get
> rid
> of the original tapes and know that I have good copies?
>
> Thanks
> Richard
>
>

 

[GRIZZ]

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If you want to do this fast & easy w/o editing them,
why not buy one of the VCR/DVR combo machines that is availble
now - I think there are in the ~$300 range now.

Just put VHS in one side and a DVD blank in the other.

Richard Otter wrote:
> Hi-
> I, like many others, want to transfer my analog home videos to DVD.
>
> I really don't have a lot of time to fool around with much editing right
> now; so, what I want to do, is simply capture the analog video and audio and
> compress to mpeg and put the hour long file on a DVD+R for archiving. (Once
> on DVD, I can finally make a backup copy.)
>
>
> I figure I can go back later and take this file and do the whole DVD
> authoring bit- edit it, make a DVD menu and put it on a DVD so that a
> standard home player will play it.
>
> I've done some video capture with the ATI software that came with my DVD+R
> drive (or was it the ATI TV card with vido imput that supplied it?), and it
> looks OK.
>
> My question concerns the compression step. I have heard that this can be
> done with varying degress of quality. What should I do to be able to get rid
> of the original tapes and know that I have good copies?
>
> Thanks
> Richard
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Interesting idea.

Do you think that such a unit would do a better job of mpeg compression
thatn a software solution such as Pinnacle Studio 9 or TMPGEnc ?

The quality of the compression is my main concern.

Thanks,
Richard

"Grizz" <nospam@here.com> wrote in message news:40F1918D.9010105@here.com...
> If you want to do this fast & easy w/o editing them,
> why not buy one of the VCR/DVR combo machines that is availble
> now - I think there are in the ~$300 range now.
>
> Just put VHS in one side and a DVD blank in the other.
>
> Richard Otter wrote:
> > Hi-
> > I, like many others, want to transfer my analog home videos to DVD.
> >
> > I really don't have a lot of time to fool around with much editing right
> > now; so, what I want to do, is simply capture the analog video and audio
and
> > compress to mpeg and put the hour long file on a DVD+R for archiving.
(Once
> > on DVD, I can finally make a backup copy.)
> >
> >
> > I figure I can go back later and take this file and do the whole DVD
> > authoring bit- edit it, make a DVD menu and put it on a DVD so that a
> > standard home player will play it.
> >
> > I've done some video capture with the ATI software that came with my
DVD+R
> > drive (or was it the ATI TV card with vido imput that supplied it?), and
it
> > looks OK.
> >
> > My question concerns the compression step. I have heard that this can be
> > done with varying degress of quality. What should I do to be able to get
rid
> > of the original tapes and know that I have good copies?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Richard
> >
> >

 

[Guest]

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"Richard Otter" <sorry@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<h3FIc.91116$wM.15279@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com>...
> Interesting idea.
>
> Do you think that such a unit would do a better job of mpeg compression
> thatn a software solution such as Pinnacle Studio 9 or TMPGEnc ?


If you go with Panasonic, I think it's fair to say that they're
hardware codecs are at least comparable in quality to the ones you
mentioned (can't really speak for any other brands, it may be that
Panasonic licenses their hardware encoidng out to other vendors, just
a guess..)


STRATEGY




>
> The quality of the compression is my main concern.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
> "Grizz" <nospam@here.com> wrote in message news:40F1918D.9010105@here.com...
> > If you want to do this fast & easy w/o editing them,
> > why not buy one of the VCR/DVR combo machines that is availble
> > now - I think there are in the ~$300 range now.
> >
> > Just put VHS in one side and a DVD blank in the other.
> >
> > Richard Otter wrote:
> > > Hi-
> > > I, like many others, want to transfer my analog home videos to DVD.
> > >
> > > I really don't have a lot of time to fool around with much editing right
> > > now; so, what I want to do, is simply capture the analog video and audio
> and
> > > compress to mpeg and put the hour long file on a DVD+R for archiving.
> (Once
> > > on DVD, I can finally make a backup copy.)
> > >
> > >
> > > I figure I can go back later and take this file and do the whole DVD
> > > authoring bit- edit it, make a DVD menu and put it on a DVD so that a
> > > standard home player will play it.
> > >
> > > I've done some video capture with the ATI software that came with my
> DVD+R
> > > drive (or was it the ATI TV card with vido imput that supplied it?), and
> it
> > > looks OK.
> > >
> > > My question concerns the compression step. I have heard that this can be
> > > done with varying degress of quality. What should I do to be able to get
> rid
> > > of the original tapes and know that I have good copies?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >