Posted by PTravel on 12/23/90 11:26

"Vernon" <big_vernnn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am in the process of copying some old video cassettes to DVD. I am using
> my digital camcorder as middleman, to convert the VHS signals into DV. I
am
> then importing the DV onto my PC as an AVI file. I then try and clean up
the
> footage, and make a DVD image. I can then create as many DVDs as I want
with
> my standard DVD writing software (Nero)
>
> Now I know I could skip the recording to DV if I moved my VCR closer to
the
> PC, but I am happy with this method. I am fairly happy with the speed of
> editing, bearing in mind that I am usually working on 30-40 minutes of
> video.
>
> I am using Pinnacle Studio 9 with all the latest patches and it is fairly
> stable. PC specs are Intel mainboard, Intel 3.06Ghz P4 with
hyperthreading,
> 1Gb PC1066 RAMBUS ram, C drive is two 80gb drives in a raid array,
> configured for speed, video footage is put on a seperate 400Gb drive.
> Graphics card is a Geforce 6600GT with 128mb ram. OS is XP Pro.
>
> What I am not happy about is the time it takes to render the final DVD
image
> (could be hours). How can I speed up this stage of things, is there a
> hardware solution that would speed it up?

The longest step in the process is transcoding the DV-25 video produced by
your camcorder to mpeg2. If all you are doing is copying with no editing,
correcting, etc., you might consider a stand-alone DVD recorder or one of
the cheapie boards that captures to mpeg directly.


>
> Many thanks
>
> Vernon
>
>

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