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[ray316]

l,m new to all this and have read some info on this site,but would like someone to break it all down to understand easily.l have a multi drive laptop and a dv camcorder with films on tape l would like to download and then burn to svcd,vcd or dvd.First what is the quickest way to do this with quality picture burned to disc.Example, if l have a 1 hour holiday tape downloaded onto my computer do all downloaded programs for burning work at the same speed, will it take 1 hour to burn. would be grateful for answers to this,and if there is quick ways with these programs free to download l would also like to know of them. Hope this all makes sense

[redwudz]

Burning takes about the same speed, that depends on your media speed and your burner. But you probably mean encoding. That is software dependent. TMPGEnc, my favorite encoder is one of the slowest. CCE is faster, and so is Procoder and Mainconcept encoder. Quality depends more on the encoder settings than the encoder.

My method is to transfer to the hard drive via Firewire using WinDV. Then do simple edits and color corrections with VirtualDub. I frameserve that to TMPGEnc Plus encoder, then author with TMPGEnc DVD Author and finally burn to DVD.

If you want just a quick conversion to DVD at some quality lose, VSO DivxToDVD is almost a one step method.

There are quite a few variations on the above.

[ray316]

sorry l did mean encoding from avi to mpg, the quickest free download program is what l,m after if there is one.

[redwudz]

QuEnc or bbMPEG are two freeware encoders that can encode to DVD video. You still need an authoring program. Dvdauthor is free, along with a GUI program to make it easier to use. Freeware is a bit limited, though.

It depends on the format you want to encode to. Look to the 'Tools' section to the left for encoders and authoring programs. <<<<