I have a "new" panasonic VDR-M50 video camera which came with a DVD-RAM disk. I now have an hour on this disk and want to clean it up and put onto a DVD for safe keeping. The tools that came with the camera are crap and the first DVD I made looks pretty awful. So I was figuring on getting the video off the DVD-RAM in AVI format then cleaning up with virtualdub, ultimately burning to DVD with DVD Decrypter. The program I am using now get the AVI from the DVD RAM is AutoGK which wants to use xvid or Divx along the way. Since I plan on burning my DVD for general purpose viewing on my cheap and nasty DVD player, I don't want xvid or Divx so I guess I'm going to have to perform another step to strip that out. Am I on the right track here or should I use something instead of AutoGK to take the VRO files from my DVD RAM to AVI? Cheers.
Copy the .VRO to the hard drive. Rename it to .MPG. Voila!! Mpeg now converted with no processing time. I just used VSO DivxtoDVD to convert a few Xvid's to dvd, it would probably handle the .mpeg also. I'll try that soon.
