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Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/25/08 19:22
"Bill Cotton" wrote ...
> I now use a Sony DCR SR80 Hard Drive camcorder. It had a direct to DVD
> burn button on the Handycam station.
Since your camcorder produces MPEG-2 files natively,
not clear why it takes you hours and hours to re-code
this to write back to DVD discs? Your workflow needs
to be re-examined for efficiency.
> However, our services are usually more that two hours and this method
> requires two DVD blanks.
I suspect that if you analyzed the situation rationally, you would
conclude that you likely don't need more than 120 minutes to
record all the salient features of a worship service that would
be of benefit to people who weren't in attendance. Remember
that most services produced for TV or radio fit into ~58 minutes
(or even ~28 minutes).
> 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.
Which could be done in real-time with a relatively inexpensive
titling generator. That would allow you to record "live-to-disc"
and have a "master DVD" within 5 minutes of the end of the
program.
> 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.
You seriously need to look at alternatives for encoding.
6 (or even 3) hours is completely unacceptable. You are
getting nothing in return for your extraordinary patience.
> I have three computers so I use all to make copies with Nero software
> that comes with the drives
There are pretty inexpensive "towers" that are available
to produce several times more copies than your three
computers can, and likely cost way less, as well. There
are also "automated" systems that take a stack of blank
DVD discs and write the data AND print the labels
unattended.
> 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.
Stick-on labels are a horrible idea for DVD discs (and for
CDs, also). See the other responses for details.
I've never understood the fascination with "Lightscribe"?
Why would anyone want to use a system that produces
a *monochrome* image that takes several times longer
to print than it took to write the data on the other side?
And requires more expensive (and limited selection)
media, as well.
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