Please help this old dog a new trick (VHS to DVD)

[unclecc]

OK..Old but trainable...

I have some VHS tapes I want to put on DVD. (I have looked and read some post, but still lost).

I can capture the VHS to my PC by using my VCR passing through the my digital camrecorder. No problem.

But, the files are to big to fit on a DVD. I am capturing using DVD MovieMaker 2. Yes no?

In plan words (besides...give up &*%^$%) how should I be doing this and what software should I get or be using. I did get some of the freeware listed in here.

Please help and THANKS in advance...

[teegee420]

Lots of options to choose from. Here are just a few:

Windows Moviemaker is probably fine to capture with. If you need to edit your footage you can use Ulead Video Studio to add transitions, titles etc., if you only need to make some basic cuts you can use Virtualdub. Once you are done with editing you need to convert the DV AVI to mpeg-2. TMPGEnc is a great mpeg-2 encoder, albeit a bit slow. From there you can take your mpeg(s) and use TMPGEnc DVD Author to create and burn your DVD. Be sure and check out the "How To" links at the upper left of this page. Lots of great info and guides can be found there.

[daamon]

Hi unclecc,

These threads might be of use...

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=206798&highlight=

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=218734&highlight=

Hope that helps...

[thinger62]

This might not give the greatest quality, but it is certainly easy. Why not let MF2 encode, but write to folders, not to disc. Then use dvdshrink to open and compress the folders...I think that would work.

[tweedledee]

Depending on how picky you are, this is what I do, I use Powervcr to download to MPEG 2, which is then authored by TMPG author and burned.
This is not the best method, but it's ok for me.

[dxj40c]

After you get a DVD compatible MPEG file on your computer, you can use TMPGenc DVD Author to generate the .vob, .ifo, files.

Then use DVD2one to resize those files to fit your disk and burn as 'DVD video'.

I can't tell you how to capture the DVD compatible mpeg files as I don't know anything about the software you are using.

[unclecc]

Thanks people...

Going to read and try them all...

Ugly weekend here...SO....

Again..

THANKS



One more question..

All of this rip, capture, edit, bitrate, etc etc....sounds like fun..really.
But is there a software package that one can purchase, (within reason, money wise) that can do it all, step by step?

[teegee420]

Most people here will tell you to use specific programs for each task. There isn't a single all-in-one package that can give as much quality and flexibility as using seperate programs.

[unclecc]

Thanks..
And to be honest...it was wishful thinking..Would be nice though.

Will give it a try using some or all of the directions listed...

THANKS

[BitChucker]

When my capture card used to work I used VirtualDub to capture the audio and video using MJPEG codec set at 20 (there are guides for capturing with VirtualDub look over to the left for those - this would give me an AVI which I could then use along with AVISynth to do any editing I needed to do ( http://www.avisynth.org/ ) - I don't expect you to know what I'm jabbering on about yet but after a search and lengthy learning session I know you'd be able to suss it out.

I could capture at full 720x576 with 48KHz audio but only in AVI format. This would give me an approximately 40GB file with all the video in it. I would then use AVISynth to frameserve it back to something like TMPGEnc or Cinemacraft to get it to DVD compatible MPEG2 and then TMPGEnc DVD Author to VOB/IFO it is very very simple.

The quickest methods are of course programs like DVDShrink but the quality just isn't good enough for me. Depends how picky you are I guess.

[unclecc]

Thanks BitChucker,,,

Seems more help the better..

[Harold7]

I recently found a very good (and inexpensive ) program called Power Producer 2 Gold by Cyberlink that may be what you need if all you want to do is copy your VHS tapes to DVD.

I've been using it for about a week and get very good results both in video quality and having the audio and video in sync once the DVD is created.

Granted, this program has very limited editing capability and doesn't have all the bells and whistles of more expensive programs, but if all you want to do is archive your VHS tapes to DVD, try out the demo version that has all functions available for 30 days.

I capture DV from my vcr through a Data Video DAC-100, but your camcorder should work great also.

What's nice with this program is that you can code the sound to DVD as Dolby Digital if you wish (surround sound on DVD works for me) and also include an auto start version of Power DVD on the DVD for use on computers.

If you don't want to have to play around with several different programs this one may do it all for you.

I've tried Ulead VS 7, Nero 6, Roxio 7 and none of them would give me the quality that Power Producer does... and if you don't want to wait 8 hours for TEMPGnc to convert your capture to Mpeg 2, this one will do the complete job from capture to final DVD in about 4 hours.

[sacajaweeda]

Capture using VirtualVCR, then use AviSynth & VirtualDubMod for finding frame numbers to trim source, then with AviSynth filter, crop or resize and frameserve to Cinemacraft Encoder 2.5 to produce DVD compliant MPEG2 elementary video stream. Then open AviSynth script with VirtualDubMod again to save the WAV audio from the source file and convert to either MP2 or AC3 elementary audio stream with either TMPGEnc (MP2) or BeSweet (AC3). Author with any one of a multitude of authoring applications out there, burn authored title set to DVDr with Nero 5.5

All that with six Biffs and a box of tots.

To go.

[unclecc]

Thanks Harold7 and Sacajaweeda....

Will give the comments a try also...

[MOVIEGEEK]

"But is there a software package that one can purchase, (within reason, money wise) that can do it all, step by step?"

Ulead DVD Moviefactory ($50USD),Ulead VideoStudio ($100),Pinnacle Studio($100).