Suggestions For Burning D8 Tapes

[pbmc59]

Hi,
I have a bunch ( 25-30 ) D8 tapes I've recorded over the past six years and need an easy way to burn them and also possibly archive them all. I have some experience ( five years ago with help from in here using TMPGenc and a few other apps ) with capturing, encoding, editing and burning. I only made it as far as buring 4 of the D8 tapes, and since then have only been recording them.
I'm looking for a simpler way for me to capture, encode and burn them. I don't need any special editing to be done, just some compression ( maybe to get at least two D8 tapes onto a disc ).
My system is getting old, it's a 2.0Ghz, 1G of RAM, two 250G hard drives, one with the OS on it, the other for saving files etc..
Any help or suggestions will be appreciated. Also, if there is a more appropriate forum in here for me to have this in, please advise.
Thanks for your time.

[edDV]

D8 is DV format and quite high quality. Your computer is capable of archiving to hard disk with zero quality loss.

Single layer DVDR can only save 20 min full quality DV-AVI per layer.

In the past 5 years, hard drives have come down in price to where a TB drive can be had for $60, or 2TB for $90. ITB will save over 75 hours of native DV format.

So, I would highly recommend no compression for archive. Capture the DV data over IEEE_1394 (Firewire) with WinDV software. Keep the original tapes as backup, or copy the first archive to a second hard drive as backup of the archive. The DV transfer is lossless.

That said, I also compress my DV format material to DVD MPeg2 (720x480i/29.97, ~8Mb/s, lower field first) for burning to DVD or playback on a media player.

[Almost Human]

I have been encoding D8 files to 704x480i at 9600+192ac3 with fairly good results except when viewed on a large HDTV.

At what MPEG2 bitrate would I need to retain almost all of the detail of the D8 capture, and what would it play on? I use 1 and 2TB hard drives for backups of my tapes.

[pbmc59]

OK, I think I will archive the tapes to an external hard drive.
But what about an EASY app for me to get at least two of the D8 tapes onto one DVD?
I have Nero ( older version ) I use for music, but it always seems to have a problem somewhere along the line.
Thanks

[edDV]

OK, I think I will archive the tapes to an external hard drive.
But what about an EASY app for me to get at least two of the D8 tapes onto one DVD?
I have Nero ( older version ) I use for music, but it always seems to have a problem somewhere along the line.
Thanks

Two 62 minute D8 tapes require an average bit rate of 4689 per the bit rate calculator. Use less, ~4600 and two pass VBR to keep the file size under control. Encode interlace and lower field first.


https://www.videohelp.com/calc

At that bitrate, handheld D8 quality will be poor. Suggest you do one tape per DVDR5 disc @9600 Kb/s instead. Try both ways and decide for yourself.

[pbmc59]

OK thanks, but what app should I do this with? Also, I'm not familiar with "DVDR5".

[edDV]

OK thanks, but what app should I do this with? Also, I'm not familiar with "DVDR5".

Any MPeg2 encoder with bit rate control.

DVDR5 is a single layer recordable DVDR disc. Dual layer discs are DVDR-9.

[pbmc59]

So, any MPeg2 encoder from the tools listing here? Any suggestions?