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[drewbrow]

G'day. I have a digital video camera with film of stuff I am doing on my olive grove in the Adelaide (Australia) hills. I want to copy the film onto a CD Rom so that we can play it on our normal DVD player and make copies to send to friends etc.
How do I go about it.
I am about to buy a new computer - pentium 4 1.5GHz
What cards do I need and what is the best burner.
My current computer is a pentium 133M with a HP burner so I am used to the concept of burning CD's
I was thinking of getting Nero V as my burn software. Any alternative suggestions.

Best to all
Andrew

[Vejita-sama]

Take a look to the left under 'capture' and there's info on getting DV recordings to x(S)VCD. To answer your specific questions thou there are a lot of different ways.

You'll need a firewire card to connect your DV camera to your computer. Then you capture/transfer the images to your HD.

From there you encode it to a MPEG stream. There are a lot of programs that can do this but TMPGenc and CCE are the most popular.

Then you burn your MPEG to a CDR. Best CDR? Anything by Plextor, there 16x is really nice. Nero and CDRWin are the most popular burnings, but a few program require Easy CD Creator.

I like to use TSVC (www.ttool.org) to make menus for my SVCDs. TSVC generates bin/cue files to burn. Also note that not every DVD player can read CDR media, VCDs, or SVCDs. Although pretty much every player made in the last 2 years can...