ADVICE NEEDED!!!! DV to m2v?

[olobay]

Hi,

I am being asked to produce 150 different dvds daily of auditions. I will be getting DV tapes from the days recording of auditions. I need to quickly edit (just cutting out some of the begininng and end), digitize and author 150 dvds daily. I will have a stock menu with an standard default intro and outro. The only thing that will change is the middle part, which will be the audition footage. I would like to know what the best way to go about this is. Right now, I am using DVD Studio Pro to author and iMovie to digitize on Mac but going to PC is not a problem. I would create my menu with my intro and outro. The only thing I would have to do is extract my audio as AIFF 48kHz and encode my DV footage. Is there a way to record from DV to m2v directly and having my sound 48kHz AIFF or WAV or AC3? Or is there a better, faster way of doing what I need using another program, either Mac or PC? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[pijetro]

I'd personally edit on the timeline, and export via firewire to a standalone burner...I believe most of them have basic menus...
That's a tight timeline on your part...

[olobay]

bump.

[aedipuss]

seems fairly impossible. to take 150 dv tapes, transfer to pc, edit, encode, and then author will take on the fastest pc/mac maybe 5 times actual footage time each. if you're really good. do the math.

for software you need a capturing program, editing software, an encoder, and an authoring program. if the company's buying i'd go with the adobe production suite premium -
http://www.adobe.com/products/productionstudio/index.html

and the fastest intel based comps you can find. and more then just one maybe 6 or so. transferring dv happens in real time only. so if you can have several machines doing tape onto a network drive you can be editing/encoding/authoring on others.

good luck, but i think you'll burn out fast or at least need a few assistants i've got three workstations and i wouldn't agree to do it.

[pijetro]

If you've got these potential customers, the investment in Premiere Pro, and a standalone burner with DV inputs would be the ONLY way that i'd attempt to attack this.....

1) Editing the timeline to suit each child/actor/protege, takes seconds..I'm assuming you're giving them simple playback only, no fancy compositing..Straight output..
2) Export to tape will do a realtime playback, and a standalone burner will record on the fly...

I wish i had your dilema.