X-David
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May 4, 2004, 9:15 AM
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Re: Copying Video to DVD
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Well,
There are a couple of avenues that you can approach. Either go the computer route, digitizing, encoding, authoring and then burning. It takes longer but gives you the most control over your finished product. You can also get a stand alone DVD recorder. Which is faster, just as good quality but limits your control over the clips. Panasonic makes a nice recorder that has an internal harddrive that would allow you to trim clips before you make the final DVD. It also has a small selection of templates for different menus. In the $900 range retail. Then you could just get a recorder that would be like going from VHS to VHS. There a few different brands out there, in the $400 to $800 range retail.
On the computer side if you have a system running XP, you could use a firewire card, analog to digital converter, windows movie maker, Nero 6, and a DVD burner to make simple DVDs. First you need to make sure you have plenty of harddrive space. It's around 7 gigs of space per minute of video, I think, I never can remember. Firewire card $20-$50, converter box $300, Movie maker free, DVD burner $100, and Nero 6 $99. Then you could digitize the video, do some basic editing, add titles, music, transitions. Take the finished DV file into Nero, make a menu and burn to a disk. More work, more control, longer turnaround. Both ways work, it just depends on how much time you want to spend and how much money.
Good luck
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