All I want to do is to put a little movie on video tape

bruceb wrote on 6/22/2001, 5:06 PM
I have a little movie that I've edited and want to save on video tape. I can't seem to make an avi of it because of disk space. I am trying to put in on to a 3 gb EMPTY drive. Should I be trying to use some other format other than avi?
We were fine until this rendering problem. Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks.

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SonyEPM wrote on 6/23/2001, 9:03 AM
You should not be rendering to uncompressed avi unless you are doing ultra-high end broadcast work. If you are a DV user, pick one of the .avi DV templates. If you have an analog capture card, check the card's documentation for the preferred render format (usually involves fairly specific codec, framerate and size settings)
FrankM wrote on 6/23/2001, 7:23 PM
I have a Sony video camera. To transfer my edited movie to tape, I go to Render and use "Video for Windows - NTSC template". That will produce a digital video output that you can then record back into your camera using the Capture program. Then from your camera you can download/copy to your VCR.

There may be other ways to do this, but this method works fine.
bruceb wrote on 6/24/2001, 12:52 PM
I have a All-in-Wonder Radeon Card. The documentation is pretty weak when it comes to that kind of specifics. Knowing this, can you suggest anything.??
Thanks.
Bruce
steveh wrote on 6/25/2001, 8:09 AM
I've got the All-In-Wonder Pro 128 card (think an older version of your Radeon). What I do is render the video as a .avi project that I can play in Window Media player. I physically move my pc over to the entertainment system and connect it to the vcr using the composite/rca jack connector that came with my All-In-Wonder card. When I boot up my pc it automatically recognises that it is connected to a television versus a monitor and sends the video signal out to the vcr.
I set the display to be 800x600, then start up windows media player. I turn off the control display for wmp, set it to full screen, and get it to where hitting the space bar starts the video playing.
I put a blank tape in the vcr and record for about 5 seconds, then hit the space bar on the keyboard to start the video playing.
Not hi tech compared to digital, but it works pretty well as long as you have a decent vcr (stereo) and record in the SP (2 hour) mode.
Steve