Hi, I'm on a mission to convert my family's old home recorded tapes to DVD. I had ViVo on my Radeon X800XT PE so I figured why not. The task has showed to be much harder than I expected, though. I'm currently planning to use ATI's MMC for capturing, I tried with Nero Vision express and Virtualdub but neither of them felt quite suitable. Anyway, so the tape I'm going to capture is about 2 h and 40 min long and was recorded in LP mode. This is supposed to fit on one single DVD-5. I'm using a composite cable for video, I tried S-Video (through a scart adapter), but I only got BW picture so I figured I should composite. To the questions. What resolution should I use? Should I use VCD, SVCD or DVD resolution? At what bitrates do these formats reach their peaks where there is no gain from setting any higher bitrate than x? Should I use VBR or CBR? The source is PAL and the DVD will be PAL, too. My system is: Abit IS7-E Pentium 4 3.2E GHz Prescott 4*256 MB RAM Radeon X800XT PE Hitachi T7K250 160 GB + Maxtor DiamondMax9+ 80 GB and so on... Any input is appreciated.
Don't know if this helps !! But I have the ATI ALL IN WONDER 9000..I just use the settings it starts up with,everything comes out AOK..I card captures everything in Mpeg2 which is DVD.Now I don't know if your card is the same,but once you've got it on your hard-drive in Mpeg U have to convert it to DVD.I use TMPGEncDVD16 to convert.Now if by chance your converted DVD is more then 4.36GIGS,U can use a free program called DVD Shrink to compress it.DVD Shrink will burn it for U also,as will TMPGEncDVD16,if it the proper size [4.36] Your LP is not going to improve with diff.settings,the quality of the finished product,will not be any better then the source.But you will end up with something that U can watch & enjoy on a DVD next make sure U use QUALITY DVD's,if U buy from retail stores,buy FUJI,Verbatim..do not buy store brands as they are mostly very low quality..6 mons from now your DVD might not even work [QUALITY DVD'S are very IMPORTANT] I don't recommend VCD OR SVCD as to gain the same quality U would probably need 3 CD's unless all U have is a CD Burner,but by looking at your system you should have DVD BURNER,IF NOT U can get one very inexpensivly,I highly recommend the TEAC DV-W516GB,although their are other preferences out their [NEC,PLEXTOR,etc] Another recom.,don't burn any faster then 8x.FASTER COULD RESULT IN UNUSEABLE DVD's
Don't know if this helps !! But I have the ATI ALL IN WONDER 9000..I just use the settings it starts up with,everything comes out AOK..I card captures everything in Mpeg2 which is DVD.Now I don't know if your card is the same,but once you've got it on your hard-drive in Mpeg U have to convert it to DVD.I use TMPGEncDVD16 to convert.Now if by chance your converted DVD is more then 4.36GIGS,U can use a free program called DVD Shrink to compress it.DVD Shrink will burn it for U also,as will TMPGEncDVD16,if it the proper size [4.36] Your LP is not going to improve with diff.settings,the quality of the finished product,will not be any better then the source.But you will end up with something that U can watch & enjoy on a DVD next make sure U use QUALITY DVD's,if U buy from retail stores,buy FUJI,Verbatim..do not buy store brands as they are mostly very low quality..6 mons from now your DVD might not even work [QUALITY DVD'S are very IMPORTANT]
