TRANSFER miniDV cassetes to BD

[mikehadj]

I have some video cassetes miniDV in SD quality. I have transfered them with firewire to my PC as DV avi. I want to create a BD containing as much as possible from my videos, not as data but with menu etc. How can I achieve that?

[aedipuss]

give this a try. multiAVCHD

[mikehadj]

I did but it gives me an error when I try to add a video file "Invalid floating point operation"

[aedipuss]

a win98 piii is not going to cut it in the blu-ray world.

[mikehadj]

sorry my profile is not updated. I try to run it under winXP pro

[ricardouk]

convert your videos to mpeg2/ac3 and create some menus with one of the dvdauthor guis available here on the tools section, i read that a bd player can read dvds/structure, but this way you get more than 4.4 GB on a disc, you can fit way more than the normal 1 or 2 hours that you can get with dvd.

[Baldrick]

multiavchd wont work for avi files.

Probably easiest is to use an all-in-one blu-ray authoring tool like tmpgenc authoring works.

[aedipuss]

sorry. they're right. first make dvd spec mpeg-2. then go to multiavchd if you want to put it on blu-ray. but, it's not going to look any better than dvd, and it's going to cost a hell of a lot more, so i'm not sure why you'd want to anyway.

[mikehadj]

The reason I am trying to do this, is to put as more as I can video on a BD without losing quality. I don't care for the cost, as these cassettes are precious memories. The use of tmpgenc is not giving me more than 3 hours of play when I choose creation of BD and it is suposed that we can many more hours of video on a BD (or not?)

[ricardouk]

using videohelp bitrate calculator:
http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

you can put 7 to 8 hous of footage with video bitrate around 7500kbits and ac3 stereo at 348k.

or try avs2dvd it does offer some simple static/motion menus and select a custom size for your dvd, the size of your bd disc