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I am totally new to DV capture I would like to be able to capture from my dv camcorder, edit, titles, effect then burn to either dvd or output to mpeg2 then use a DVD author program to create a DVD.
With so many programs out there anyone any ideas on which one is suitable i dont want anything over the top just something that is easy to learn, has the features above and outputs decent quality i did use premier6 to capture it created an avi file some 4.3gb but it was just 22mins long.
Any help appreciated
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- Mar 2003
- Chit, IDK I'm following you
First you should consider reading quite a bit around this site. There is a lot to learn. Relax...it's not hard to learn...but if you are new to it, it's just different.
About your DV video size - 15 minutes of DV-AVI video is approximately 4 GB...that is different than the size it will be on the DVD. When you author a DVD that DV-AVI gets encoded to MPEG-2 with is a compress video format...anyway.
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before you take the jump and buy anything, I would download some trials and check out the software first.
TMPGenc Author is a very nice and fairly powerful authoring program
DVD-Lab is also pretty good
Ulead DVD Workshop is very easy to use and learn...but doesn't have a lot of flexibility.
Pinnacle Studio 8 or 9 - very easy to use, but seems to be very buggy for some people while working perfect for others....
There are several others. I do suggest you try before you buy. If you are looking for ease of use and shortest learning curve, I would go with DVD Workshop or DVD Movie Factory (even less flexible), both are very straight forward, fairly easy to understand and kind of walk you through everything step by step. -
Best thing to do is to read and follow the guides. There are plenty of free and or trialware applications that will get you from start to finish.
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Cheers,
will try the above.
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