burning home move dvds

Rings890 · Post by **Rings890** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:58 pm

I am using a Canon Optura 20 camera to record video, from there I use IEEE 1394 port to copy the footage to my hard drive. Now I want to burn it to dvd so I can go and drop the burnt dvd into any old home dvd player and watch the video footage.
Here is my question, what software do I use for burning my dvd's? I have Nero 6.1 and my video caputer card came with Studio 8 but neither seem to do quite what I want. Any suggestions?

mmione · Post by **mmione** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:27 am

What extension does it output the files as?

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:07 pm

Can't you burn directly from Studio? Should at least be able to create a DVD image(?)

Rings890 · Post by **Rings890** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:05 pm

The output file from the camera is .avi

Forgetful · Post by **Forgetful** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:17 pm

You might want to try Nerovision or Tmpgenc for converting. Also if you can try to save as Mpg rather than Avi. Be aware though that avi is not a standardised format so these programs may not even open them.

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:48 am

I use sonic and pinnacle you definately want mpeg or mpeg2

* note I use mpeg2 which is high quality and only allows about 60 min per dvd there are a variety of compressions file formats out there.

what are you looking for quality or editing capabilty?

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:08 am

I did a bunch of this late last year and the MPEG2 was what I used. You loose a little quality, but as Randy said, you can get a good 60 minutes on one DVD.

I used all Adobe programs...Premiere Pro 1.5 and Encore DVD. If you don't want the menus and such, you just need the Premiere and use Export to DVD.

Rings890 · Post by **Rings890** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:51 am

Thanks for all the help everyone. I seem to have figured it out, I spent a couple of hours reading and was able to figure out the problems.
For the stuff I have been doing I am after high audio & and video quality so mpeg2 is what I will be using I guess, I think the software (both pinnacle Studios & Adobe Premiere) defaulted to mpeg2 when I burned to dvd.

Thanks again for all the help.