DV to DVD with overlay text

[d98rolb]

Hi!

I have a DV camera and a lot of DV-tapes. I'm starting to worry of the quality and want to back it upp on DVD. My plan is to burn it on DVD and add overlay text with dates and maybe some descriptive texts but nothing advanced. The purpose is mainly the backup and make it playable on a standard DVD.

I have a demo of Nero 7 Premium Edition and Microsoft Moviemaker. as those seems to be the quickest tools. I don't want to spend months with this...

With Nero I couldn't adjust the position of the overlay text. It was hardcoded in the center. Otherwise it seems to be a quick intergrated solution to capture, edit and burn.

With Moviemaker I had an option to add a text in the bottom left. I want it more in the corner, but it is acceptable now. But then it only saves in wmv-format. SO when I import it to Nero for burning it do a lenghty conversion. Maybe I also loose some quality.

What are my options here?

Regards Roland

[Baldrick]

You can save as dv-avi with windows movie maker and then import it in Nero Vision and you wont lose that much quality.

[d98rolb]

You can save as dv-avi with windows movie maker and then import it in Nero Vision and you wont lose that much quality.

Do you mean save it back to the camera before importing to Nero? I didn't see any option to save the movie as dv-avi.

Regards

[redwudz]

Windows Movie Maker will save out your edited version as DV AVI. When you click 'Save Movie File', then 'My Computer', select a name and destination, then click 'Other settings', there is a selection for 'DV-AVI(NTSC)' cleverly hidden by MS because apparently they want you to use WMV instead.

Then you can use that file and convert it to MPEG-2 for a DVD. Saving it as DV will have the least lose in quality compared to most of the other choices WMM gives.