making DVD from mini DV

[saramalik]

hello
i have home videos on mini dv and want to capture, edit and author DVD. what is the best way.
i tried capturing with ulead 7.0 as mpeg, then edited it, but rendering took very long, about 2 hrs for 53 min video.
Any better way?
thanks

[zoobie]

it's probably re-encoding everything
check preferences/project settings to see if there's a box you can check that says "do not re-encode compliant files"...or somesuch

[guns1inger]

Capture as DV avi first using WinDV
Edit with Ulead
Author DVD with Ulead
Burn with Imgburn

That would be my preferred order and tools if using your system. Your system is barely powerful enough to capture DV nicely, let alone convert to mpeg-2 on the fly. Disk space, or lack thereof, is your biggest problem. Given the speed of your processor, I suspect that you aren't actually capturing to DVD compliant files, which is why you are then having to re-encode afterwards.

Use g-spot to see what your captured files look like. Post a screenshot here if necessary.

[edDV]

If you have a small drive (e.g. old laptop) you need to capture DV and encode in chunks then link the sequential MPeg2 files during authoring.

Each hour of DV format takes up 13GB of hard drive space.

[CogoSWSDS]

With the processor the OP has, 2 hours for 53 minutes of video is about right. If I do single-pass with my computer, which has a 2GHz processor, using a fast encoder like HCEnc or QuEnc I can get about 25 fps NTSC, which is almost realtime. An hour's worth of video would encode in about 1hr 11 minutes. If I use a slower encoder, like TmpgEnc, it'd take me about an hour 30 minutes.

CogoSWSDS

[saramalik]

thanks for the replies, i actually capture from camera using ulead, in DVD format, i.e. mpeg format.
after editing i save the file as one single file, use tmpegEnc finally author and burn DVD.
I want to know why does ulead render the mpeg file, which takes too long, isnt it suppose to render only avi file.
thanks

[saramalik]

The editedvid.mpeg file is saved by ulead after rendering
in the 2nd screen shot the vob file is created by TmpegEnc.



screenshot.jpg

[thecoalman]

I want to know why does ulead render the mpeg file, which takes too long, isnt it suppose to render only avi file.

You need to look into the settings, if your output settings differ from the file it will reencode the file.

This may help: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic325840-60.html#1683670