Is there an easier way to make DVD

Mahesh wrote on 11/26/2004, 12:24 AM

I have to convert some DV tapes to DVD-R. The tapes are in 16:9 and are 90 minutes in length. There are no menus.
Normally I use my analogue capture card to capture and DVD Workshop V1 to burn.
Time taken would be
90 minutes to capture using analogue Dazzle card
50 minutes to prepare and burn at x2 speed using DVD Workshop.
Total turn around time = 140 minutes

My capture card and DVDWS can not handle 16:9. I purchased DVDA2 instead of upgrading to DVDW2 last summer.

So using Vegas 5 and DVDA2

90 minutes to cature
187 minutes to render as MPEG2 using V5
39 minutes to prepare Video_TS and Audio_TS folders in DVDA2
52 minutes to burn at x2 speed using DVDA2
Total turn around time = 368 minutes.

What am I doing wrong? There must be an easier away.

Comments

farss wrote on 11/26/2004, 1:49 AM

Why are you burning at 2X?
Combine prepare and burn and go do something else.
Encode to mpeg-2 overnight, use batch script to queue multiple jobs.
Get faster PC?

Buy STB DVD burner and put up with crappy menus.
Buy ADS mpeg-2 capture box and capture and encode in one go.

PS your capture card could handle 16:9, it's exactly the same as 4:3.
Bob.

Laurence wrote on 11/26/2004, 9:52 AM

There was a post lately about a standalone JVC DVD recorder with a firewire input. You could probably just dub the DV tapes to DVD if you had one of these.

tailgait wrote on 11/26/2004, 10:56 PM

The problem with that is that V5 will not output audio. What you have to do is render your file and then output it to your DV camera and take the S-video feed from that and plug it into the input of your stand alone DVD recorder. then you take a stereo mini with stereo RCA's and plug the mini into the "speaker out" jack on the back of your computer and the two RCA's into the audio in plugs on the DVD recorder. Use record levels that peak at about 10 (I use a Sony DVD recorder) and it'll work fine.