Posted by AnthonyR on 09/13/05 16:06

<kevinsyder@aol.com> wrote in message
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>i recently got married and want to put the tapes onto dvd, i have
> obtained an i link cable and already downloaded it, but the quality
> looksb like an mpeg, which is the best software to make it a dvd format
> and also the best software to edit and produce my dvd.
> thanks
>

kevin, what did you mean by the quality looks like an mpeg?

you didn't give us much information to work with, is your camcorder a miniDV
tape or miniDVD disc type?
When you transferred to the PC ( or are you using a mac?) see, we need more
info to help, what software did you use?

DVD's use Mpeg2 as their native format to play on standalone dvd players.
Depending on what type of file you have your original video footage on that
will determine how
you will edit and encode to final file to be burn for DVD.
I will assume you don't have a miniDVD camcorder just because you want it to
be on DVD in general.
In that case, you can use a consumer version of Adobe stuff like Premiere
elements of something comparable to
import video, add titles, edit out bad scenes and then save the avi file to
be authored to dvd either in
another program which can give you menu's to chapters etc. or burn a dvd
directly.
You have to start at the beginning, pick something under $100 and give it a
try, experiment and have some fun
learning. Later when you got better at it, i suspect you'll want to do a
better job at the wedding DVD again.
So never destroy the original tape thinking the dvd will last forever, cause
the original is higher qulaity than mpeg version.
Hope this helps and gets you started.
Also there are great articles on how to get started at www.videoguys.com to
read. It helps.
:)

AnthonyR.

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