Each year I film the games and do a highlight DVD for the high school JV and Varsity soccer team. After the banquet is over, I contact each players family, and sell them the players individual clips out of my DV AVI database. For these discs, I navigate through "My Computer" to the drive and folder containing the clips, and use the Windows XP Professional function 'Copy To CD", listed on the left side XP display. The program converts to MPG1 and prints to a CD-R TDK 700MB discs in 10-15 minutes per disc. Some players get 1 disc, some get 15 depending on the number of clips for that player.
This method provides these benefits to me;
1. The file names are retained on the CD-R and display in Windows Media Player playlist
2. I get the discs back from the families in the future, and compile college recruitment tapes from the clip collections. MPG1 is slightly more editible than MPG2.
3. The families store the data and I don't need to.
4. More PC's have CD players than DVD players, and can play MPG1 on their PC's, although this trend is changing.
5. Nearly all PC's have Windows Media Player installed, and it will playback MPG1.
This year I received a number of complaints about playback problems. I know specific PC configurations will cause this, but I need help troubleshooting their settings.
Does MPG1 seem to you to be the best code to use?
Should I convert to WMV? Will WMV playback better?
What settings in WMP will increase playability of MPG1 files? WMV? Are these settings different for each version?
I am currently on version 10. Has SP2 effected this function?
Retaining the file names is critical for speed of compiling the college tapes, as I label the files with a letter to indicate the 'best' clip of a group. So I don't want to recode and lose the file names.
With this model I get $25 for the highlight video, $25 for the collection of individual clips, and $75 for the recruitment tapes for $275 over 4 years from each of 60 families, or ideally, $4125 per year with 100% hit rate. I average about 40% hit rate overall, for about $10/hr.
What do you think of this business model? What do you use?
Thanks for any help or suggestions? I am looking forward to your responses. John
This method provides these benefits to me;
1. The file names are retained on the CD-R and display in Windows Media Player playlist
2. I get the discs back from the families in the future, and compile college recruitment tapes from the clip collections. MPG1 is slightly more editible than MPG2.
3. The families store the data and I don't need to.
4. More PC's have CD players than DVD players, and can play MPG1 on their PC's, although this trend is changing.
5. Nearly all PC's have Windows Media Player installed, and it will playback MPG1.
This year I received a number of complaints about playback problems. I know specific PC configurations will cause this, but I need help troubleshooting their settings.
Does MPG1 seem to you to be the best code to use?
Should I convert to WMV? Will WMV playback better?
What settings in WMP will increase playability of MPG1 files? WMV? Are these settings different for each version?
I am currently on version 10. Has SP2 effected this function?
Retaining the file names is critical for speed of compiling the college tapes, as I label the files with a letter to indicate the 'best' clip of a group. So I don't want to recode and lose the file names.
With this model I get $25 for the highlight video, $25 for the collection of individual clips, and $75 for the recruitment tapes for $275 over 4 years from each of 60 families, or ideally, $4125 per year with 100% hit rate. I average about 40% hit rate overall, for about $10/hr.
What do you think of this business model? What do you use?
Thanks for any help or suggestions? I am looking forward to your responses. John