burning digital camcorder movies using DVDit

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  1. robjude

    robjude Member

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    Can anyone tell me where to find information on the process of downloading my digital home videos from my sony camcorder, to my sony vaio and burn it to a dvd using dvdit! I am new to this, and I just want my home movies on dvd. If anyone can give me some advice i would appreciate it. I can download the video to the hardrive, but i am clueless where to go from there. thanks
     
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  2. commwiz

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    I'm not familiar with DVDit but basically you want to plug your digicam into your firewire port, at that point your pc should see it as a new "drive". Software that comes with your digicam should allow you to view and download whatever you select. That will then be saved to a folder as an mpg file (ie. filename.mpg). Your dvdit (or many other programs) will then transcode to dvd format. By that, I mean it will take the one .mpg file and create a folder named VIDEO_TS, and it will create several files within the folder, named video_ts.ifo, video_ts.bup, video_ts.vob, and more files named something like vts01_01.vob. You then use a burner program to burn the VIDEO_TS folder to the dvd. I use Sonic myDVD which transcodes and then burns. Lots more information can be found at www.vcdhelp.com/dvd, and at www.doom9.org.
     
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    thank you soooo much for your help. I will try your advice and check out those sights. I will let you know if it works. thanks again for taking the time to respond.
     
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    I would suggest using something other than DVDit. The interface for chapter settings will drive you insane.

    Rgds,
    jnihil.
     
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    DVD Architect is good for chapter settings & much more IMHO.

    You will need to set .VOB size to not exceed 1GB by the way.
     
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  6. MikeBUK

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    I think you will find that the footage needs to be rendered before outputting or before video compliant files are created. The best software for creating a DVD from your video camera is Pinnacle Studio 8. It's very easy to use and will do all the rendering and output to a DVD disc with two clicks after you have chosen the scenes you want. Alternatively Sonic 'MyDVD' allows you to upload your video footage directly on to a DVD disc without any rendering or editing.
     
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