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Posted by Arny Krueger on 01/30/08 23:11
"Bill Cotton" <Billcotton@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arny Krueger" <arnyk@hotpop.com>
> Newsgroups: rec.video.production
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:42 PM
> Subject: Re: What is the best way to quickly produce a
> DVD for a church service?
> Portions snniped
> I am learning a lots from your and other posts.
> I have a Sony DCR SR80 Hard drive cancorder that has USB
> output. I cannot use any capture features from any
> progran that I have.
Surf the web.
I know that there are some issues with SB transfers.
Can you do as we do, and that is use the camcorder as a camera and do the
recording elsewhere.
> Ulead 10 Nero or window moviemaker.
> I have to download as a picture file and inport that to
> Moviemaker. I am thinking that I need to use a camcorder
> with Firewire output.
We just use the video output of our camcorder. It does HDMI but we don't
have the rest of the infrastructure for that, so right now we're just using
the yellow male RCA plug.
>> As far as after-the fact processing goes, I'm getting
>> the following timings for editing 90 minutes of NTSC
>> program material with PE4 on a 2 GB PC with a 6 GHz dual
>> core Athlon64 under XP, running off a single 250 GB 7200
>> rpm drive:
> What is PE4?
>> (1) Open MPEG capture file which includes indexing and
>> transcoding to DV-AVI for PE4 processing - about 4
>> minutes.
>> (2) Edit to trim the ends and overlay and align 4
>> pre-fabed titles and a DVD menu with pointers to 3
>> places in the video - 4 minutes.
> Where can I pre-fabed titles and menu.
The pre-fabricated titles and menu are a shell of a project that I saved in
PE4 - that is Premiere Elements 4 (about $80). By a shell of a project, I
mean a project with the main video file missing.
>> (3) Burn 90 minute DVD - approximately 15 minutes.
> My viedo are up to 150 mintues, but I am will to reduce
> the raw to 120 mintues as it seems that this is the limit
> for high quality DVD.
Usually, getting the highest quality is not of the essence for church work.
Also, dual-layer DVDs can run more like 3+ hours in top quality mode. DL
burners and DL media seems to be coming down to a reasonable price. I'm just
starting to experiment with them.
> If I can pre-fab title to the
> camcorder, the one button direct burn to DVD will gives
> me a master in about the same time as you get.
I Don't think that is going to be possible, but I don't know the details of
your equipment.
>> I think duplication on a tower-style DVD copier takes
>> about another half hour.
> As soon as the budget allows, a tower is planned.
Ours does 6 DVDs at a time and cost about $600. Many people sell them. Ours
is about a year old and has run flawlessly.
Whatever you do, don't restrict your pricing of video gear to sources that
sell specifically to churches. IME they are a mixed bag, and not always
price-competitive.
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