please help me out.

[kx5000]

I just recieved my wedding video on VHS tape and I would like to transfer it to a DVD. The Video studio has the master copy of the tape and will not release it to me. They want to charge me $200 to transfer the video to a DVD, with no menus or chapters included, just a straight transfer to DVD. They want to charge me $1200 if i want it done on a system called Sonic DVD creator, and that package includes a dvd title, graphics from vidoe footage for menus and upto 18 chapter points. This is to much for me to spend. Is it possible to pay for just the $200 straight transfer to DVD and then make my own chapters and menu by copying the dvd at home with a dvd burner?

thanks to all

[northcat_8]

Mail it to me....I'll do it however you want it for $150

Seriously though, if you can get the video into your PC then you can download enough freeware or trial stuff to do it.

Like Ulead DVD Workshop is an easy authoring program that is limited by a time trial and a few other minor things like timeout length on a motion menu, things like that....it will author the DVD for you. TMPGenc Author might be the same way....I don't know, I just bought it before I tried it.

You should know that copying that video is probably some kind of copyright infringement on the company who made the original video.

[zworg2]

Either way it sems extortionate......

from a country (UK) where things are usually more expensive than USA, $200 (approx £130) is a very high price to simplly port over to a DVD.

I suppose it could depend how much footage they have but even so that sounds like a good few hundred percent markup on the actual cost of the process!

Zworg2

[Frandaman]

Spend the 200 bucks on a good capture card and transfer the tape to your PC. Then edit and author it yourself. $1200 is the biggest ripoff I have ever heard !!!!

[lordsmurf]

You got ripped. Don't get ripped again. My prices for transfer start at $25 per DVD. I remember the most I EVER saw was $99 per DVD like 3 years ago.

[andkiich]

More importantly, never use that company again, never recommend them to others, and make sure you tell others about their practices.

If you feel you've been or are being treated unfairly, the worst thing you can do is to do nothing about it.

[ricky1756]

is this company a subsidiary of halliburton?

[lordsmurf]

BBB - Better Busines Bureau. Report them. It does work.

[mob]

^^don't you mean Bad Business Bureau?

[FulciLives]

I just recieved my wedding video on VHS tape and I would like to transfer it to a DVD. The Video studio has the master copy of the tape and will not release it to me. They want to charge me $200 to transfer the video to a DVD, with no menus or chapters included, just a straight transfer to DVD. They want to charge me $1200 if i want it done on a system called Sonic DVD creator, and that package includes a dvd title, graphics from vidoe footage for menus and upto 18 chapter points. This is to much for me to spend. Is it possible to pay for just the $200 straight transfer to DVD and then make my own chapters and menu by copying the dvd at home with a dvd burner?

thanks to all

To answer your question YES

You can get the "basic" no frills DVD from this (ripoff) company and then RIP it to your computer's HDD using DVD Decrypter. You can then extract the video (which will be a M2V file) and the audio (which might be PCM, MP2 or AC-3) then you can use those seperate video and audio files in any DVD authoring program to make your own custom menu design and chapters etc.

You could just capture the VHS to DVD but assuming the company kept a high quality master (such as a DV tape or a DVD) then their version will look MUCH better than what you will get from your VHS copy to DVD.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[kx5000]

thanks alot guys, i will order the basic copy for $200 and try it myself

[kx5000]

One question I have is when i use dvd decrypter to rip it to my hard drive, will this create one video file? then all I will have to do is transfer it to an author program correct?

[FulciLives]

One question I have is when i use dvd decrypter to rip it to my hard drive, will this create one video file? then all I will have to do is transfer it to an author program correct?

You can RIP the DVD with DVD Decrypter in IFO mode. You have to make sure you tell it to create one large file. If you do it right you will end up with one M2V video file and one audio file (which will be MP2, AC-3 or PCM ... in short whatever format is on the DVD disc).

The other method is to RIP it in FILE MODE and then you can use a variety of programs to extract the M2V and the audio files.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gmatov]

Fulci,

Excuse my ignorance, but why does he have to rip it with a decryptor? This fly by night is paying to have CSS and the like? And MAcrovision protection?

Maybe this is why he charges so much, to recoup his 25000 reg fee + so much per.

More likely no protection, copy, convert, burn. Or cap, convert, burn.

Cheers,

George

[jeex]

you could go to one of those rent to own places and rent a standalone dvd recorder for a week and do you own $200 transfer..