MiniDV Tape to DVD

lg777 wrote on 12/12/2005, 6:32 PM
I read in Vegas Video forum that DVDA 3 can use all the AVI clips from a tape to burn to DVD. How do you do that??? If I add all these AVI clips from a menu, I have sometimes over 100 clips and I just want a seemless play from beginning to end as if watching from the camcorder.

I first capture all my video from tape to avi. This leaves me with about 1 to many video clips. I am selecting all the clips and let vegas make video. If DVDA 3 can do this then I can go straight to DVDA 3 and Burn.

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jrazz wrote on 12/12/2005, 8:00 PM
I think you kind of answered your own question. "...DVDA 3 can use ALL the avi clips from a tape to burn to DVD." DVDA is not meant to be an editor but a DVD preparer or "Architect" if you will. I would also use Vegas to encode to mpg-2 for DVDA using the DVDA template as you have many more options with encoding to mpg-2 than with DVDA. I would not skip the Vegas step, but use it to make your DVDA time minimal. Instead of saving to avi, save directly to mpg-2 after capturing and DVDA will not need to re-render the files as they will already be compliant. You can also go ahead and save ac3 audio in Vegas for DVDA.

j razz
lg777 wrote on 12/12/2005, 9:22 PM
Ok, looks like I'll stick with Vegas for video rendering. Like to save the avi files for further editing rather than going to mpg-2.

I have been experiencing some issues with DVDA 3. When I do join all the clips to get one mpg-2 about 2.5 GB. I burn in DVDA 3 and get VOB files at around 1 GB for the main video. I can play the first VOB file of the main video but get errors trying to view the rest. Know of this problem?
PeterWright wrote on 12/12/2005, 9:32 PM
Don't forget you can capture a whole tape as one clip by disabling Scene Detection in capture preferences.
bStro wrote on 12/13/2005, 7:50 AM
That is the way all DVDs are structured -- no file over 1GB. If your project has a menu, you should start from there in your player rather than trying to play individual files. Otherwise, try loading the first IFO file on the disc.

Rob