RE: DVD drive

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

Video production is my business. I use PC based systems with Adobe Premiere= on a Matrox Digisuite Max system (3 full length cards, packed with silicon= ) and the Ligos MPEG plugin for Premiere. Only trouble is a system would co= st you about =A312K !!!



Seriously though, there are a load of low-end video editing and DVD convers= ion progs out there but Premiere is definitely the best for PC use. If you = can get hold of it, it's worth it (there is an LE version but I can't remem= ber what's cut out of it).



As I posted recently - I use DVDXCOPY to 'backup' DVD's to DVD-R. It works = really well and is very simple, automatically copying 9Gb dual layer DVD's = to 2 DVD-R's.



Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Doogie Brodie [mailto:ukhad@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 November 2002 21:51
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ukha_d] DVD drive



J Starkie wrote:

> What are you using to import your video's to the PC?
>
> I have tried a product called instant DVD to covert composite video to=
> mpeg 2 and was so impressed I sent it back !
>
> Is the best bet buy a Digital camcorder with video input and fire-wire=
> output
>
> Then capture you old vids from the new digital camera and burn the dvd= ?
>
> Has anyone done this with good results ?

I've got an ATI Radeon 8500DV which has firewire, composite, svideo and rf inputs (but the svideo only works in b&w... no matter how much I change settings about.... :S )

I had some major problems with some tapes.... stuff that was recorded
off the TV, can copy fine VCR->VCR but was showing Macrovision style brightening and darkening on the input.... had to buy a Macrovision
removed type blackbox to sort it out.... I *think* the card was
confusing the fuzzyness of the VHS with a Macrovision signal...
purchased tapes work fine, just some of my others.... !

Not been giving it that much attention, but now that I've actually got
my Sony multi format DVD burner, I suppose I will get the motivation I
need... :)

Was Instant DVD a hardware or software product....? What do you have for video in?

--
Doogie




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