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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to create a video cd/dvd on a windows machine?
« Last post by 4wd on December 09, 2010, 01:00 AM »MiniDV has a data cost of approximately 1GB per 4 minutes of footage.
So 10GB will be approximately 40-50 minutes of footage - this is an AVI in raw DV format.
The DV codec is pretty standard on Windows machines so you should be able to use any All-in-one type video to DVD converter, check the thread here.
If you want to do a bit of editing first, then AVIDemux is free and will let you do it - you can then output to a DVD compliant MPG stream, (Auto->Optical Disc->DVD), which can be written directly to a DVD and any decent standard DVD player will be able to read it directly.
If you want to turn the output MPG into a properly formatted DVD then one of the converters in the thread above should do it without re-encoding.
Personally, I use Scenalyzer Live for transferring DV to the computer - nothing comes close to the ease with which this program works. If you use MiniDV at a consumer level then quite frankly, I don't know how you can not use this program. It makes the first step of choosing what to keep/remove so much easier.
For editing and encoding, AVIDemux, and for authoring DVDLab Pro - if you're not interested in menus or want simple menus only then the basic All-in-one converters will suffice.
So 10GB will be approximately 40-50 minutes of footage - this is an AVI in raw DV format.
The DV codec is pretty standard on Windows machines so you should be able to use any All-in-one type video to DVD converter, check the thread here.
If you want to do a bit of editing first, then AVIDemux is free and will let you do it - you can then output to a DVD compliant MPG stream, (Auto->Optical Disc->DVD), which can be written directly to a DVD and any decent standard DVD player will be able to read it directly.
If you want to turn the output MPG into a properly formatted DVD then one of the converters in the thread above should do it without re-encoding.
Personally, I use Scenalyzer Live for transferring DV to the computer - nothing comes close to the ease with which this program works. If you use MiniDV at a consumer level then quite frankly, I don't know how you can not use this program. It makes the first step of choosing what to keep/remove so much easier.
For editing and encoding, AVIDemux, and for authoring DVDLab Pro - if you're not interested in menus or want simple menus only then the basic All-in-one converters will suffice.
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