Post producing DVD

filmelife

filmelife

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what do others recommend if i wanna do this?

I mastered a 3 hour tape and want to put it onto dvd (a wedding), what do you find best? capturing the whole three hours to computer and authoring everything.

or is there a simple way of just live recording and marking chapters. what is the best way for this?
 
Re: Post producing DVD

Not sure what you mean by "live recording and marking chapters"...

If I read your post correctly, you've already edited the piece and have produced a finished product that is 3 hours long, correct? If you want to put it onto a DVD, all you have to do is recapture it to your computer (unless the files are still on your computer), and encode the footage to mpeg-2, and author a DVD of it.

Also, depending on the type of footage, you might want to think about spreading the piece over 2 dvds as 3 hours of video will have to be compressed quite a bit to fit on a single dvd.
 
Re: Post producing DVD

thanks jive. i've heard of software that enables you to record your dv tape live onto the dvd. maybe this is only for dvd cameras, but iam not sure.

The 3 hour footage is on dv tape and the client needs a dvd. Is there a way to skip capturing back to computer and record straight to dvd. should i have to split?

i wonder how other videographers are giving their clients a DVD copy, the process?
 
Re: Post producing DVD

There are hardware encoders that act as a passthrough between your cam and your PC. For instance, the Plextor ConvertX™PX-M402U (link)
However, AFAIK, you only can use an analogue connection between your cam and a converter such as this one. The biggest problem with on the fly mpeg-2 recorder is that your results, especially for "tricky" pieces of footage (that are hard to encode without artifacts), are limited by the prowess of the hardware encoder. Encoding will go much smoother (tho it may take longer) if you already have the files on a HD and the encoder (whether hardware or software) can take the time necessary to properly encode the DVD.

There are also set-top DVD recorders that some people use to get simple dubs of a tape to DVD. However, in this case you are limited by the player in the quality settings that you can choose as well as the options you can include on the DVD.

If quality and control are of any importance for your project, then recapturing and encoding to mpeg-2 is your best solution IMHO.
 
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