Advice needed on Getting DV movies onto CDs/DVDs

[JohnW]

Hi people.

I have some on track footage from Spa that is currently on small DV tapes.
I would like to transfer this onto CDRoms, or possibly DVDs.

My desktop (shuttle) has a DV in connection (firewire400 ?) and is running XP.
I'd like some advice on what extra hardware or software I might need, if any.

Is it simply a case of downloading MS MovieMaker and doing a transfer ?
If so, any advice on what settings I should use.

I've not done this before so have no idea how easy/hard it will be to do, so please bear with me

Cheers,
John.
p.s. I know I've asked some of you in the past, but I have the memory of a goldfish, especially where alcohol is involved

[PhilT]

CD/DVD movies tend to be more difficult.

If you want to just get the stuff from a DV to a CD/DVD as a file that can be played by Windows Media Player, then Windows Movie Maker is the one. It's really easy to use. I recommend you keep the DV tapes write protected and save them as the original backups.

[PhilT]

Oh and for the stuff we post on RS246... It's all saved as "Video for Broadband 512 Kbps"

[TWH]

If you want to make cd/dvd, you may find something like Adobe Premier is good for the task. That's what I always use to edit videos and it does a really fine job.

The only problem is that since my firewire port on my camera has been bust for the last year or so (don't ever buy JVC!) it's that long since I used the software so I can't actually remember if it will cater for cd/dvd or whether you need another program.

There's also stuff like AVItoDVD (or something like that).

Hope that is of at least some use?!?!

[JohnW]

Thanks chaps.

[RS4ge]

If you want to do video editing, menus, titles, putting music or sounds to it etc I have used Pinnacle Studio Version 8 but plan to get the new V9. Cheap, simple and good results as you can burn to CD/DVD and different quality/file format.
http://www.simply.co.uk/productinformat ... _STUDIO_9/
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