Hi,
I've been reading a lot of great info here. Haven't been able to find some overall answers to a few things so I thought I'd post. I appreciate any feedback.
I am totally new to video on the computer, but am very computer savvy otherwise. I am not too video or audio savvy, though.
My initial goal is to convert 13 years (about 40 tapes) from video to DVD. About half the tapes are Sony HI 8 (2 hours, analog), and the rest are Sony Digital 8 (1 hr, digital).
I have a Sony Handycam Digital 8 TRV 480 (plays both analog and digital tapes). I have firewire from it into a Pentium M laptop with a USB external drive (along with a 60 mb internal drive). I have a LACIE DVD +- RW external player.
I don't plan on doing any editing. I'd like to add in a DVD title and just have DVD chapters that allow me to skip ahead at 5 minute intervals when I'm playing back on a standard DVD player.
Here are my questions:
1) What do you think is the best overall strategy and procedure to get from 2 hour analog hi 8 to dvd.
2) What do you think is the best overal strategy and procedure to get from a 1 hour Digital 8 to dvd.
3) The DVD burner I have came with Sonic DVD and I originally did a test where I 1-clicked straight from the camcorder to the DVD burner. It was easy and seemed to be okay quality (couldn't add in any chapter stuff, of course). Will the above processes (Items 1 and 2), turn out a significantly better quality DVD when all is said and done.
Currently I've put in a HI 8 tape into the camcorder and Captured it to the USB harddrvie through Movie Studio (2 hours). I then put the 8 clips it produced onto the video timeline and then hit Make Movie. It's now rendering (est. 5 hours). From there, I believe I have to go into DVD Architect and figure out the Title/Chapter stuff and the actual burning.
I get the feeling I should have just done 1 hours worth of video onto the timeline so it would fit onto the DVD.
Anyway, any advice would be appreciated. It seems that it will take a lot of time to process each tape (most of it unattended, however).
Thanks in advance.
I've been reading a lot of great info here. Haven't been able to find some overall answers to a few things so I thought I'd post. I appreciate any feedback.
I am totally new to video on the computer, but am very computer savvy otherwise. I am not too video or audio savvy, though.
My initial goal is to convert 13 years (about 40 tapes) from video to DVD. About half the tapes are Sony HI 8 (2 hours, analog), and the rest are Sony Digital 8 (1 hr, digital).
I have a Sony Handycam Digital 8 TRV 480 (plays both analog and digital tapes). I have firewire from it into a Pentium M laptop with a USB external drive (along with a 60 mb internal drive). I have a LACIE DVD +- RW external player.
I don't plan on doing any editing. I'd like to add in a DVD title and just have DVD chapters that allow me to skip ahead at 5 minute intervals when I'm playing back on a standard DVD player.
Here are my questions:
1) What do you think is the best overall strategy and procedure to get from 2 hour analog hi 8 to dvd.
2) What do you think is the best overal strategy and procedure to get from a 1 hour Digital 8 to dvd.
3) The DVD burner I have came with Sonic DVD and I originally did a test where I 1-clicked straight from the camcorder to the DVD burner. It was easy and seemed to be okay quality (couldn't add in any chapter stuff, of course). Will the above processes (Items 1 and 2), turn out a significantly better quality DVD when all is said and done.
Currently I've put in a HI 8 tape into the camcorder and Captured it to the USB harddrvie through Movie Studio (2 hours). I then put the 8 clips it produced onto the video timeline and then hit Make Movie. It's now rendering (est. 5 hours). From there, I believe I have to go into DVD Architect and figure out the Title/Chapter stuff and the actual burning.
I get the feeling I should have just done 1 hours worth of video onto the timeline so it would fit onto the DVD.
Anyway, any advice would be appreciated. It seems that it will take a lot of time to process each tape (most of it unattended, however).
Thanks in advance.