Posted by Innocent Bystander on 12/23/21 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.
>

Why would moving the VCR closer to the PC have any bearing on whether or not
you record to DV-AVI. You are passing the analog signal through the
camcorder for that. If you have a DV compliant capture card with analog
inputs you wouldn't need the camcorder in the first place. In either case
moving the VCR closer would not negate the step of recording to DV.

> 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?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Vernon
>

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