Burning to VHS - format?

[QuietDavid]

Hi All

I have just finished editing my first movie in WMM - it turned out
pretty good, but of course the next one will be better still.

After editing and adding transitions, music etc, I saved it as DV onto
my HD, then used Ulead DVD workshop to burn it to a DVD. That took a
fair while, but the end result was good quality so no sweat.

I also need to make a copy of that movie on VHS tape for another rely -
but what format?/settings? do I choose - since the movie is about 55
minutes long and I am using 180 minute tapes, I hope that I will not
have to use compression that gives poor quality.

WMM gives lots of options for saving its movies, which is confusing to
me - high quality video? Pal? ( I am in Oz so it needs to work on a PAL
VCR)

Should I record to tape from WMM? or do I need to use DVD workshop?
Ulead Movie workshop? Something else?

Ideas much appreciated

Cheers and happy moviemaking to all

David - who late in life has found that movie making is fun

 

[Bob [MVP]]

You basically just need to play your
video in full-screen mode, while recording
the output with a VCR. You can use WMP9
or any media player to play the DV-AVI
file that you already created.

If your PC does not have s-video or
composite video outputs, you can
just connect your VCR to your DVD
player, and record from the DVD you
already made.

-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome

 

[QuietDavid]

Thanks Bob

Much appreciate the info - tho surprised how easy the solution is - when
you know it of course. Both your solutions are available to me so will see
which one gives the best result.

My guess would be playing the AVI version of the movie on my computer and
saving to VHS thru the SVideo port on my video card will provide the best
quality - Yes?

Best wishes

David

 

[Bob [MVP]]

David,

Yes, that "should" provide the best quality because the quality of the
DV-AVI video will be better than the MPEG-2 video on the DVD.

However, it will also depend on the quality of the s-video output on
your graphics card. My PC's s-video out doesn't seem to be quite as
good as the s-video out from my DVD player.

-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome