Video to DVD

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Can anybody recommend a good programme/procedure to transfer analogue video
tapes (from video player) to DVD??
Preferably for free!!!!
I am using Windows XP and my graphics card has the in/out connections that I
need apparently to connect the recorder up to the comp and capture it on the
hard disc BUT I need some way of getting that to the DVD (maybe encoding it
to play..??)

Thanks!

Martin
 
M@gic said:
Can anybody recommend a good programme/procedure to transfer analogue
video tapes (from video player) to DVD??
Preferably for free!!!!
I am using Windows XP and my graphics card has the in/out connections
that I need apparently to connect the recorder up to the comp and
capture it on the hard disc BUT I need some way of getting that to
the DVD (maybe encoding it to play..??)
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Depends on your setup, but check out the tools here:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/
 
M@gic said:
Can anybody recommend a good programme/procedure to transfer analogue video
tapes (from video player) to DVD??
Preferably for free!!!!
I am using Windows XP and my graphics card has the in/out connections that I
need apparently to connect the recorder up to the comp and capture it on the
hard disc BUT I need some way of getting that to the DVD (maybe encoding it
to play..??)

Thanks!

Martin
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First, make sure your graphics card can capture video to mpeg-2. Typically
the real-time compression done in the graphics card is not the best so
here's what I recommend. Set up the capture to a much higher bitrate than
normal (e.g. 12 Mbps). Capture your VHS tape and this will create a huge
mpeg-2 file on your hard drive. Since you captured at such a high bitrate
the quality will be excellent but the file size will be huge. Next you can
use TMPGEnc Plus which is a high quality mpeg encoder to do a 2-pass
variable bit rate encode to get it down to an average bitrate of around 6
Mbps. (Depending on how long the video is you may need to do more
compression or perhaps split the file in half which can also be done with
TMPGEnc Plus.) To burn it to a DVD you'll of course need a DVD burner.
Also you'll need some kind of authoring software to turn the mpeg-2 file
into the correct VOB structure used in DVDs. An easy one to use is the
TMPGEnc DVD Author software.

Both of those TMPGEnc programs cost money, but I believe you can get a
bundled package for a reasonable amount (under $100).

Brad
 
Brad Griffis said:
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First, make sure your graphics card can capture video to mpeg-2. Typically
the real-time compression done in the graphics card is not the best so
here's what I recommend. Set up the capture to a much higher bitrate than
normal (e.g. 12 Mbps). Capture your VHS tape and this will create a huge
mpeg-2 file on your hard drive. Since you captured at such a high bitrate
the quality will be excellent but the file size will be huge. Next you can
use TMPGEnc Plus which is a high quality mpeg encoder to do a 2-pass
variable bit rate encode to get it down to an average bitrate of around 6
Mbps. (Depending on how long the video is you may need to do more
compression or perhaps split the file in half which can also be done with
TMPGEnc Plus.) To burn it to a DVD you'll of course need a DVD burner.
Also you'll need some kind of authoring software to turn the mpeg-2 file
into the correct VOB structure used in DVDs. An easy one to use is the
TMPGEnc DVD Author software.
Click to expand...

I thoroughly recommend Nero Burning from Ahead Software.
Both of those TMPGEnc programs cost money, but I believe you can get a
bundled package for a reasonable amount (under $100).
Click to expand...

Download Nero free from any peer-to peer file sharing programs. Make sure
you d/l the
DVD Mpeg plugin too.

Kev.
 
Brad Griffis said:
First, make sure your graphics card can capture video to mpeg-2.
Click to expand...

If not, encode to AVI with lossless CODEC "Huffy" (files will be huge of
course), then use TMPG to convert to MPEG-2. This also has the advantage of
being able to use the latter's filters to reduce noise which you'll have on
the source material.

I recommend DVD-Lab Pro for DVD authoring.

For more advice, try posting on rec.video.desktop

Regards
Gary
 
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