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Art wrote on 3/22/2001, 2:02 PM
When you say "copying video files to my cd..." are you
copying pre-rendered video (an existing AVI file from
another source) or is it something that you captured from a
source (digital camcorder, TV card, VHS tape..). If you
captured the file that you were rendering, make sure that
you are capturing with at least 29/30fps (frames per
second) to attain "real motion", otherwise, you may be
rendering a file using 15fps. This will depend on the
software you're using to capture. Also, make sure that you
don't have a lot of frame drops when capturing your video
before you render. I hope this helps...
SonyEPM wrote on 3/22/2001, 3:50 PM
If you just want to send a video to a friend/family on a
CD, you might try rendering the file with one of the
Windows Media templates (.wmv), then copy that file to CD.

The video quality is pretty good, and all the user has to
do is load CD and double click on the file(they have to
have Media Player on their machine of course)
rbyam wrote on 3/26/2001, 10:16 AM
Thanks for the info. I am capturing the video clips from a
digital camcorder into AVI files, and then writing them to
a CD. I will take a look at the FPS. How do I measure the
number of Frame Drops, and how do I correct it if there are
too many?
rbyam wrote on 3/26/2001, 10:18 AM
I will try to render to a WMV file and see if that helps.
Thanks
SonyEPM wrote on 3/26/2001, 11:11 AM
If you are capturing DV with a 1394 card on a properly
configured system, there shouldn't be any frame drops (SF
VideoCapture reports the frame drop count).

It is a good idea to do nothing else on your system while
capturing- this is an intensive operation for cpu, bus, and
disks.
patrickm wrote on 3/26/2001, 10:45 PM
also make sure your cd-rom can support a steady-state
transfer rate high enough to play them back. not just the
maximum "50x" or whatever. it has to be able to sustain it
over a longer period of time. try copying them back to the
hard disk and playing them (or jsut play them before you
copy them to cd and make sure they're all right beforehand)