DVD burining from Studio 7

[mjshack]

I wish to convert all of my old videos to DVD. I have yet to buy a burner (I need to make sure about compatablity) - but it looks like I will have to go with DVD-R or -RW. What is the best way to save my edited videos that I have created in Studio 7 - MPEG (DV quality), AVI, etc., for best TV picture quality from my set top player (Toshiba 6200)? I would like to save the files to a cd for storage unitl I get the burner. I know I will need some DVD burning software. I have been writing back to tape on the DV camcorder, but that seems a waste.
Thanks for your help.
Mike Shack

[Chaoji3791]

You don't even need a DVD burner to archive your home videos in a high-quality format. The majority of people on this forum use the SVCD format which offers terrific quality and allows you to burn your movies to cheap-ass blank CDs, which usually cost less than a dollar each.

Here's how to do it:

* Export your videos from Studio as AVI files (using the same settings at which you captured).
* Run these files through a standalone MPEG encoder, like TMPGEnc, bbMPEG, Ligos's LSX-MPEG or Ulead's DVD MovieFactory. (There are heaps of others; the quality varies. At this stage, bbMPEG is absolutely free.)
* Burn to CD-R using Nero or Ulead DVD MovieFactory or similar.

If you want to stick with the DVD option, Ulead's DVD MF is probably the cheapest and easiest DVD auithoring/burning option around, and it allows you to encode several large AVI files into one compact SVCD-compliant file. (Presets are provided.)

Check out the Tools section of this site for more info about what programs are available for encoding, authoring, burning etc...

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