Posted by spinach47 on 10/11/05 03:14

I'm a little confused. You said it took 3 hours to convert and burn but you
said it could
take 10-12 hours too. Is it ProCoder that takes longer?
If my capture process creates an avi file, how do I know what to convert it
to for the burn?
Nero says the avi file is too big for the DVD and tells me it will compress
it for me. It
mentions something about Type-7 and Type-9 but that's Greek to me. I just
let it go for it.
So does that mean that Nero is converting it for me?
It sounds like the concensus is that Nero is just sloooow.
Am I getting the drift of things? thx again.

"Ben Wallace" <pistonchamps@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "spinach47" <spinach1947@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Oops. Sorry. I see you have answers to my reply embedded in my questions.
>> I captured my video by using the original camcorder that created the tape
>> and passed it through my Digital camcorder.
>> It takes 2 hours to copy the 2 hour tape to my hard drive. Where would
>> the
>> conversion program come into play. How long would that take? By
>> extrapolation, you're saying about 1 1/2 hours minus the 5 minutes to
>> burn?
>> Sorry about the additional questions but I'm definately not an expert in
>> this area. Sounds like you have it down. I am open to trying new
>> software. thx
>> "Impmon" <impmon@digi.mon> wrote in message
>
> It will of course take 2 hrs to capture 2 hrs of video via tape, it's done
> in real time.
> Once captured you need software to convert the video to dvd compliant
> files.
> Others have mentioned ulead, but there are many out there.
> Depending on the software you are using it could convert it in a few hours
> or up to as much as 10-12 hrs to finish.
> Once the files are dvd compliant it should burn rather quickly, depending
> on
> the speed of your burner and media.
> It's hard to give you specifics but here's an example from personal
> experience.
> Using dvd workshop i captured a 1 1/2 hr tape of old home video.
> I then spent about 20 minutes cutting out stuff I didn't want, adding
> menus, etc.
> Clicked on convert and about 3 hrs later it had converted and burned the
> dvd.
> I sometimes need to convert different file formats that DVD Workshop can't
> handle. For this I use Canopus ProCoder. This is a great converter,
> excellent quality but slow.
> A 2 hr video takes about 10-12 hrs to convert. It does however create the
> necessary IFO's and leaves me a folder ready to burn. Burning takes 6
> minutes.
> Hope this helps.

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