Mini DVD Disks and DV Capture

[rwlbowl]

I have 5 different Mini DVD disks from my camera that are about 30 min long and want to know how to capture them to make a new full DVD disk to show in any DVD player and 4 DV tapes that I would like to convert to a DVD disk. I need to know in laymens terms how to capture and burn these 2 types of media. I have; My DVD, Movie Maker, Studieo 10.1 and Nero 6+. I have also DVD shrink. I have several MPEGs that are on the disks and would like to add them at the end of the movie. My equipment is a p4 2.4hz at 400 fsb and 1024 Ram, 2-DVD burners, one Aopen and the HP Movie maker hp 3000, 2-80 Gig 7200 HDs, a TV Capture card and a firewire card. The movie maker hp 3000 has hookups for R, W, Y, and S-Video. My video is builtin AGP but have a G-Force 6200oc Graphic board with 256Ram that I would put in if needed. I need to know if I need anything else and the correct procedure to do these two different operations. HELP. Thanks. RL

[ipdave]

The way that I do it is with other sw - TMPG DVD Author. It can read in DVDs and save to MPGs on your system. Just add each miniDVD in turn, then add menus and burn your full-size DVD. I would then capture the DV tapes to MPG and add them also.

[guns1inger]

DVD based cameras are designed for immediate and simple gratification - shoot, pop the disc into your DVD player, watch. For anything more complex than that they bite.

TDA is probably the simplest solution. If you want to do more complex editing them you will be looking at ripping the contents to your HDD, demux them to gett he video and audio out of the DVD structure, editing (simplest with an mpeg editor like Womble or VideoRedo. if you want more complex editing you will have to convert format to either lossless or DV)

DV is simple. The format is edit ready (i.e. designed specifically for editing), easy to transfer and use, and the editors built for it are pretty good (for the most part).

You should look to tackle the two formats as seperate problems to begin with, and bring the results together at the end.

There are planty of guides in the menu to your left. That is a good place to start.

[edDV]

I agree. Sony, et. al. target DVD camcorders to those that just want to shoot and play the DVD on their DVD player.

They will freely tell you, as they did to the newsmedia when these came out, words to the effect ... (pretend quote)

If you wanted to edit, you would have purchased one of our perfectly wonderful MiniDV or Digital8 models.

But NOOOO, you said in the focus group you didn't want any hassle with DV transfer* or computers. You just wanted a playable DVD.

* never mind that we never included "I-Link" cables or explained DV transfer in the manuals. If you called us about about poor USB transfers, we would take your $25 and tell you in dismissive terms that you are a cluless idiot, USB is for web streaming (as clearly stated in the manual and every promo piece) and then sell you a new VAIO computer and charge you an extra $45 for the "I-Link" cable.