Creating DVD from mini dv tapes

[1234567]

I have a mini dv camcorder. I do not now how to make DVD from min dv tapes using my PC. Any solution? Thanks!

[SingSing]

Or, buy a DVD recorder with miniDV input. Connect the wire and Press record.

[Schmendrick]

Recently I had just done the very same:
1. Connect your miniDV camcorder to your PC using a fiting firewire cable.
2. Use the freeware program WinDV to copy your movies from the miniDV cassette to your hard drive. This requires about 13 GB per hour if I remember it correctly. WinDV writes each separate scene in a separate AVI-file.
3. Install a DV-Video for Windows codec (available here @ videohelp) on your system.
4. Edit and append all videos you want to have using VirtualDub set video to direct stream copy and audio to full processing if tha audio was not recorded at 48000 Hz stereo. If the latter was the case then you can also use direct stream copy for audio. If you have to convert audio you will have to set conversion to 48000 Hz stereo accordingly and compression as uncompressed PCM. To save the video you use save as AVI.
5. Use the finished video file with any DVD-authoring/burning software as explained in the guide section.

Good luck

Schmendrick

[1234567]

Thanks a lot!

[mats.hogberg]

5. Use the finished video file with any DVD-authoring/burning software as explained in the guide section.

Well, you'd better convert the AVI to DVD specs mpeg2 first, before trying to author and burn...
But there are plenty of guides for AVI to DVD too!

/Mats

[Schmendrick]

Naturally I was referring to these AVI to DVD guides. Still a number of simple DVD-authoring/burning programs accept AVI-files as input.

Schmendrick

[davideck]

Or, buy a DVD recorder with miniDV input. Connect the wire and Press record.

Some DVD Recorders will also automatically set chapter points at date or scene changes. Very convenient.