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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?

What extension does it output the files as?

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

The output file from the camera is .avi

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.

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?

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.

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.