Transfer of video from Mini DV to DVD

[irman]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

One is called Video Studio and another called Movie Factory. Each will go from capture to burn.

Whoa ...... unless you have a very fast computer, that first one is a slow bugger, or may be the programme is just very slow .....

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by hoffdano

The statement about USB is not true - at least with my Sony mini-DV camcorder. It is a digital stream with the same data content as the 1394 stream. My old computer dropped some frames using USB - possibly because the 1394 simply outperformed it.

Which model? I know some pro cams have DV over USB but I'm not aware of any in the consumer market. Been a while maybe they added it in new ones? In any event firewire is better. Technically USB2 is faster but for sustained data transfer firewire is superior especially on under powered PC's.

Whoa ...... unless you have a very fast computer, that first one is a slow bugger, or may be the programme is just very slow .....

Video requires a lot of processing power especially when you're encoding video. No matter what software you use they will have roughly the same performance. When encoding the encoder and whatever settings you have selected is the primary determining factor. Most of the consumer applications all use the mainconcept encoding engine so they will all be about the same and others using a different engine will not be significanly faster or slower.

To make it go faster you need hardware like the Matrox line, get your checkbook out. The dealers don't even list prices but last I heard a base system starts about $15K

Realtime Editing with Adobe CS4 for Broadcast and Post - Matrox Axio (http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/axio/ - broken link)

[irman]

@coalman:
Regarding the comment I made about MS movie maker before, I found out that I had an older version.
Downloaded the latest one, and now figure that it is as good as any other programme.

Found some help on the net, about *helping the pooter* speed up the process, by closing a lot of other things still running.

Still a long time to do it (all the editing is done *real time*, and the final conversion in order to play the movie on *any DVD player* is also long), but the results are *not half bad*.

LBNL, we have about 6 hours of time of our grandkids, and after hours of *editing*, it was worth it looking at the results !!!!

Thanks for all the info and help.

[hoffdano]

The "make a movie" part, also known as "rendering" can indeed take a long time. The elapsed time can vary too with the specific format of the movie file - mpeg, WMV, AVI, etc.

When I upgraded my old Athlon XP3200 system to an overclocked quad core Intel Q6600 my rendering times dropped massively. It used to take 3 hours to render 30 minutes of video. Now 30 minutes of video is less than 30 minutes of wall clock time.

Enjoy....video editing can get a bit addictive.