Trying to make home dvd's with text

[reddogracing]

thank you all, i will try to keep this short, I am new to video world. I film truck pulls for the district here. each one is 30 minutes in length of actual record time. I folm them with a sony digital/super8 handycam. I have a dvdrw for my entertainment center, on the pc i just added a liteon combo drive, and a liteon dvd +_r/+_rw dvd+/-r DL 16x drive. They came with nerovision. I used to put each event on a rw dvd through the home dvd rw, this worked fine, good quality. It takes forever to make copies, and i have to make 50 or so each week. I use rw, because i actually just add the event to all the others on the dvd.
But i cant add text, people want to see the distances and results, while they watch the video. This is why i got the stuff for the pc.

However, I can fit 6 hours on the home dvd rw, but on the pc, its a whole lot less. I was looking at one dvd for the season, with the pc, it looks like itll be 3. Also the video is a bit jerky, and sometimes the audio is a bit off.

Sugestions on how i should be doing this, and what if any progragms i should be using?

I tried taking one of the dvd's i allready made and seeing how it would work with nero, but it wont let me open it. so i used the camera and captured each event and went from there. I need to figure out too, why i cant play my recorded dvd's in the pc.

Thanks for any and all ideas. TIM

[thecoalman]

However, I can fit 6 hours on the home dvd rw, but on the pc, its a whole lot less. I was looking at one dvd for the season, with the pc, it looks like itll be 3. Also the video is a bit jerky, and sometimes the audio is a bit off.

I'm not familiar with Nero software but... The amount of video you can fit on a disc is determined by the bitrate. You need to adjust that to fit more on a disc. If you really wanted too you can fit a whole lot more than 6 hours at a very reduced quality. The jerkiness is probably the result of the settings you used to encode the video, there's an option for frmae based, top field or bottom field (the names may vary slightly with nero). For a DV cam you need to use bottom (or lower) field and maintain that throughout the process.

I tried taking one of the dvd's i allready made and seeing how it would work with nero, but it wont let me open it. so i used the camera and captured each event and went from there. I need to figure out too, why i cant play my recorded dvd's in the pc.

You can try DVD Decrypter for ripping the footage off a disc.

I'd suggest looking to the left as you have many questions here that can be addressed but you need to familirize yourself some of the lingo.... A good place to start is the FAQ to the left, the "what is" section and the guides section.

[reddogracing]

OK i tried doing one going from cam to home dvd, from home dvd, to pc. it looked a whole lot better.

The only options i see are regular long and super long, but even super long says it is near the max of 4GB. yet the home dvd rw says i have 4 hours free.