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Posted by Bill Cotton on 01/25/08 12:14
"Nathan" <nathan.stanford@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> What is the best way to quickly produce a DVD for a church service?
>
> Right now what the procedure is...
> 1. Record the church service to the hard drive on the computer.
> 2. Burn a Master DVD - (1 hour)
> 3. Burn High Speed some copies of the master.
>
> How can I reduce the 2nd step or remove it. I would also like to make
> our church services dvd's Menu's look professional. Is there a way to
> make the Menu, Cover of the DVD, and Case look nice without spending
> to much since this is a church. When I get the sales to cover the
> current equipment then I can start spending more to make it even
> better.
>
> What are your suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan
I have read all of the suggestion in the thread and learned a lots.
I have recorded our church services for the shut-in for more than a year,
learning as I go. I want to one day use two or more camcorder and a mixer
and deliver the disk a few minutes after services. The ideas in this thread
will be helpfully.
I now use a Sony DCR SR80 Hard Drive camcorder. It had a direct to DVD burn
button on the Handycam station. However, our services are usually more that
two hours and this method requires two DVD blanks. I use Window Moviemaker
in Vista to encode from the camcorder to DVD and compress various clips to
our WebPages. Window Moviemaker let me put title at the beginning and
credits at the end, which Choir singing and ect. It allow up to 150 minutes
of clips. Also it allows cutting and editing, With a Pentium 4 it takes 6
hours to encode, a Core 2 processor it takes 3 hours.
I have three computers so I use all to make copies with Nero software that
comes with the drives. I tried Sharpie and litescribe for labeling the DVD,
now I use the stick on labels, I found a source on the web
www.onlinelabel.com for about three cents each. I do take care to center the
label using the guide rings on the disk.
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