Just got burner need some advice.

[jstatham]

I have been playing with VCD's and I got a DVD burner for my birthday. Panasonic A05. So my question is that I want to convert my home videos to DVD. I have a ATI All-In Wonder Video Card 32 mb. So my questions is how would you capture the videos (resolution) and what DVD authoring programs would you use. Any help would be greatly appericated.

[Petco]

Ulead DVD Workshop can import AVI directly. Learning curve is very small and you can create menus with music. Motions menus without music though. You can also import the trial version for free.

[videoalaska]

Use Ulead to capture. Get your *.avi - then demux, seperate your video and audio, use TMPGEnc get you bit rates etc. and mpg2 files in order, then use DVD Maestro (for authoring) which will put your audio and video back together and finally use GearPro for burning. I wish I had this info when I got started. I have learned the hard way and spent a lot of $$$ doing it. You will have perfect DVD's and they will play in any set-top.

[Petco]

I actually just use Ulead without usingTMPGEnc. I use to get the fast motion problems in TMPGEnc (DVD ripping ok, but with DV->firewire - I had problems). If you use the raw AVI in Ulead ( skip a step) it will convert to vobs for you. For ripping DVD's use TMPGEnc, if you have raw AVI go directly to Ulead and compile.

[videoalaska]

I've had problems with the sound, garbled (almost a slow motion for sound). That is why I do it that way.