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Transfer a Video or Movie 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.

Capture your Video

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.

Convert and burn

Nero or Roxio are the easiest way to automatically encode and burn VCDs, but you can also try using a separate conversion program or a hardware encoder such as the ConvertX from Plextor (www.plextor.com) an NTI favorite. The ConvertX hardware encoder comes with everything you need from start to finish and will also endode to DivX and MPEG-1, 2, & 4.   There are many other free conversion programs out there, see our Downloads page for more information.

Once you've converted the video files you'll need to create the VCDs' file structure and menus. The easiest way to do this is to use a video editing program such as WinDVD Creator, Pinnacle or similar type program. It allows you to take your captured video files, compile and splice a full movie complete with menus and output to a DVD format of your choice. The output format will vary depending on where you intend on playing the movie (home DVD player, or your computer for example).

 



   
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