What are the best softwares to use?

[jace808]

I'm trying to capture DV video from my Sony TRV-310 through my ADS PYRO 1394 card. Once captured I'd like to edit then burn my editted video to a SVCD or XSVCD.

What I'd like to know is...

1. What is the best capture software for me to use?

2. What is the best editting software to use (with as little quality loss as possible)?

3. What is the best way to output my my editted .avi file to SVCD/XSVCD?

Some of the software I have:
AVID Xpress DV 3.5.3
Premiere 6.5
Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.5
Pinnacle 8.3
Cinemacraft Encoder SP 2.64.01.02
DivX Pro 5.02 Corporate Edition Dolby AC3

and many others...

Please don't limit your suggestions to my software list. If I need some other software you suggest I may have it or I can purchase it through my company if indeed it is what I need.

[joe444455555]

OH OOHH!!
Use I dunno for capture (sorry, U need someone more experienced than me for that)
Use TMPGenc for encoding (great quality, cheap price, MANY capeabilities)
Use Goldwave for sound sync problems (ANY sound sync problems)
Use Mighty BeSweet GUI and tools for sound conversion of about any kind (including frame rate)
Use either Ulead DVD Movie Factory, cheap easy, CVD, X(S(VCD)), DVD output by authoring it for you. This is the easiest rpogram for authoring I have ever seen. It's very intuative and you probabbly won't need to study any guides.
or use DVD Maestro/Scenarist (evil tools of the devil, both programs can do absolutely ANYTHING in authoring a DVD (scenarist is what the big people use <the comercial dvds with motion menues, multi cammera angles, a LOT of control over how the dvd responds/what it dose automatically), but they are very expensive and mainly, more than anything else:
VERY hard to learn.
for authoring those are the 2 ends of the spectrum among the nicer ones, there are some slightly more complicated one with a different approach (DVD Movie Factory, is very simple interface, and very visual) that can do other things and most likely cost more.
You want a DVD-R capeable burner (sony make a -R +R cual mode model, and I think the latest pioneer may do so as well)
You want a very reliable and compatible DVD stand alone (llike a VCR) player (I and 3 friends got the mintek 1600, seems to be exactly that but there are others that will surely fit the bill) and not cost more than 80 bucks (55-60 is more appropriate)
U will undoubtedly want to do a number of other things (take a still of the frame in a movie to use for backgrounds; use hypersnap, info available in "TOOLs" Section.
Get CD-RW or DVD-RW (or the + variant) so you can screw up a lot, and not really lose anything.
have decent ram (greater than 350 MHz is good, greaten than 500 is better) and a fast processor (VERY fast is most important, perhaps even dual processor since TMPGenc can use both at once fully
Raid0 is very important, you want to be able to write data very quickly, raid zero uses 2 drives like one double size drive, but the data is spread on both, not one, then the other. U can write some screaming rates with that and it works with the IDE drives we all love and can afford (U want this for high quality capture, so you can write as fast as necessare and not drop frames).
a really nice monitor, not necessarily big, but good contrast and saturation, something with a really vibrant well focoused picture.
and a partriage and a pear tree for compleatness

oh, I've added in note below with the edit option

you will want to make sure you check pricing on these things for business liscense, and goldwave and besweet stuff will probabbly not be free either, also besweet uses a wonderful gui and proggy that runs a LOT of other programs from other individuals, so if it's for your business again, you may need higher costing liscense, still this method will be drastically less expensive than most other programs, as these guys just want a few bucks for making a good stable easy intuitively interfaced working program.

[jace808]

Wow.. thanks for all the great information.

Anybody else have opinions?