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Transfer Video to DVD

A VCD (video compact disc) is nothing more than a CD containing moving pictures and sound. You can capture from  your PC into a VCD that's capable of playing in almost all stand-alone DVD players.

Digitizing is a way to convert analog video into data you can store on your hard drive. To do this, you need a video capture card or, if you have a digital video camera, a 1394 or FireWire port.

You first need to capture your video to hard drive using the best quality capture card that you can afford. I must have a color depth of at least 24 bits per pixel. The chief limitation here is the speed of your system and size of your hard drives.

You can capture analog video (VHS, Hi8 etc) utilizing an external component that lets you convert analog video to digital video or digital video to analog video. There are many devices out there but only a few that work well. Contact us to discuss in more detail. These devices come with video capturing and editing software, some are great some are a little lean in features depending on the quality of your device.

Once you have the movies on your drive, the next thing you need to do is convert the video to a format that will play is either a standard DVD player on your PC or at home depending on what you want the result to be. The video files must be converted to MPEG-1, 2, 4 or DivX video. More details will be posted on this soon.

Convert and burn

If you don't want to take the easy route of using Nero to automatically encode and burn VCDs, then try using a separate conversion program. If your video files are AVIs, then you can use the free program avi2vcd to encode them, or a hardware encoder such as the ConvertX from Plextor (www.plextor.com) a favorite at NTI. Another free conversion program is TMPGEnc, which is capable of converting DivX, AVI, QuickTime, and Windows video to VCD-compatible MPEG-1 video.

Once you've converted the video files you'll need to create the VCDs' file structure and menus. To do this, use a free program called VCDEasy. Once the final VCD setup is complete, VCDEasy generates a CD-ROM image file that you can burn to CD. The ConvertX hardware encoder comes with everything you need from start to finish and will also endode to DivX and MPEG-1, 2, & 4.

Additional resources

If the general guidelines presented in this article don't cover your specific requirements, make sure to visit VCD Help. This site features everything you'd ever want to know about authoring, converting, and capturing VCDs, SVCDs, and DVDs.

Source: Tech TV Article April 2003

 






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