How Do i fit 120 min home movie onto a DVD-R

[Zoolo]

I am looking for a way to fit 120 min of an old football game onto a DVD-R with good quality. there is alot of movment on it.I Have done it but got bad results. It loks very digital when playing



Zoolo

[chaseru]

Here is how I transfer sporting games recorded in low quality on VHS to DVD:

VHS-->DVconverter-->DVavi-->VirtualDub-->3x3 Blur-->Temporal Smoother (2)--->TMPGEnc VBR, low bitrate for audio-->author and burn-->DVD-R.

[Bud]

chaseru

I can find most of the software you talk about but where can we find the following w/guide to using

DVconverter
DVavi

Maybe a little more information please.

Bud

[Anonymous65]

I assume the source is VHS.

1> Capture at 352x480 AVI (Virtualdub + Mjpeg)
2> Convert to mpeg-2, 352x480 @ 4Mb/sec, 224Kb/sec 48Khz audio (Tmpgenc)
3> Burn to DVD-R (Ulead Moviemaker)

This will look just as good as the VHS tape, with no motion artifacts or loss of resolution. (I do it myself)

[Anonymous65]

Actually, if you get Ulead Moviemaker, it has a capture application that will work with ATI AIW and other video capture cards that have the capture chip on the VGA card. It can even capture Mpeg in real time using the Ligos Gomotion encoder. It will also capture and convert DV video in real-time (in addition to doing it the old slow way for slow PC's and for getting better quality). Check out a free trial download at Ulead.

[chaseru]

I can find most of the software you talk about but where can we find the following w/guide to using

DVconverter
DVavi

Maybe a little more information please.

Sorry for the brevity; didn't have much time to respond originally.

The DVconverter is simply a analog to DV capture device. I have a JVC HR-DVS2U, which is a combo miniDV and VHS tape deck that has firewire in/out port. This can convert VHS to DV and send it to your computer. It costs about $1000. Some digital camcorders have this feature. You can also buy a stand alone converter made by Sony, Canopus, or Dazzle. The cheapest way is via an analog capture card, but I have found that this method introduces too much video noise unless you buy an expensive one. Some noise is fine for certain transfers to DVD, but transfering a sporting event you want a clean file for the encoder to use.

DVavi is the video file format that is output by the DV converter. BTW you have to install Mainconcepts' DV codec (the demo works fine) to open the DVavi file in VirtualDub.

[Zoolo]

What is your settings in tmpge? and where is the 3x3blur in virtualdub

Zoolo

[chaseru]

The VirtualDub filter is actually "3x3 Average" not "3x3 Blur" as I mentioned above. You may want to resize in VirtualDub to 352x480 using precise bilinear (this should be the last filter). By resizing you can get by with less bitrate and still retain or exceed the resolution of the original VHS recording.

TMPGEnc settings: I used the standard DVD template in TMPGEnc, increased to High quality, used VBR, and decreased the audio bitrate.

[Zoolo]

what program do you use to athor it and burn it?please note what the settings are too.

Zoolo

[chaseru]

I use Dazzle DVD Complete if its 740x480 or Ulead MovieFactory if 352x480. DVD Complete doesn't accept 352x480 mpeg2 files and I can't convience their customer support that 352x480 is a valid DVD format that all other authoring programs I've tried accept.

I actually burn using NERO. DVD Complete has a bug that a few people have encountered where it takes 12 hours to burn a DVD. Using NERO I can also have more control of the process.

[robboughton]

use ulead dvd moviefactory its the mutts nuts got a good capture program and a good burner 2 very nice app