roxio easy cd & dvdcreator 6(basic edition)

[ray316]

still confused. l am a real novice to all this movie making and have took advice off people on this site to read info on this site, l am none the wiser.l have a toshiba a60 super multi-drive laptop, and want to download home movies from my panasonic dv. l have roxio 6 and used a firewire lead to transfer the movies to the laptop, this seemed to work.l noticed it was put onto the laptop in avi is this right, as it did not give me a option.From this it asks if l want vcd, svcd or dvd, l picked svcd and put a cd-r in. l had about 15 mins of filming on and it started encoding it,which took about the same length of time, does this take this long or is there a quicker method.Then it burned it.The disc does work on the video recorder but the pictures not very sharp, whys this. l transfer the home movie from tape in 12 bit, does this make any difference, hope someone can help me with my questions, keep it as plain as possible, thank you.

[Rivers]

I can help with some of your question. I have a Toshiba laptop and capture footage off my Canon DV using firewire. I use Windv to capture (transfer) now as its a small, free and simple utility. I edit in Ulead Videostudio and burn the disc with it too. I've done 15 minutes or so of test footage and it does take about that time to encode from AVI to MPG.
I've burned both Dvd and Svcd using this method and I find the footage to be as sharp as the original to my eye on both, even with Svcd (unless there is complex moving footage on Svcd)