Simple question

[tbarrnes]

I have a very simple request. I want to take home movies of my kids and dump them into the computer via Firewire with my Canon ZR40. I want to burn them onto DVD's and have ZERO quality loss. I want the DVD to be playable in any consumer DVD player. What is the most practical software for this?
Up til this point I have used Adobe Premier to capture the video to an AVI and Sonic Foundry DVD Architecht to burn it to a dvd. It works, but sometimes the video seems to slow down for a split second. It's not terrible, but is there a flawless solution? Another thing to mention is that resulting avi file from Premier is HUGE....a 10 minute video is 2 or 3 Gigs.
Any suggestions? Thanks Travis

[Specialist]

Have a look at Ulead's solutions.

I'm putting my family videos on DVD using both Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 and Ulead DVD WORKSHOP:

http://www.ulead.com/dws/runme.htm

http://www.ulead.com/dmf/runme.htm

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Craig Tucker]

I want the DVD to be playable in any consumer DVD player.

Not possible, not all players will play burned DVD's

AVI files transfered from DV are large, that is just the way it is, around 1gig per 5 mins.

I don't know much about the software you are using so I cant really comment on that, but I use TMPGEnc to encode, DVD workshop to author to a disc image, and nero to burn, and I have no problems.