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[AncientGeek]

I've had a commercial service convert some 15 hours of 8mm film to DVD.

I'll need to break it into segments and put menus and titles before its useful to younger family members who won't know what they're looking at until I polish the presentation.

It's not clear what I should do to begin building my "productions".

Do I "capture" the disks and save to an MPG4 and then break that into clips or is there are better way that is repeatable?

Nothing is protected but the sequence of the clips is random because the firm who converted the film didn't have any way to know what should get clipped together.

I'm using EMC 7.5 but can/will upgrade to 9 if that makes things easier/faster/better.

TIA.

Dave Nuttall
San Antonio, Texas

[bobstripower]

one of the gurus will probably answer you,but just a few points that Ive learned thru this forum and by trying the software out-
A high quality DVD will hold only an hour of film.You can get more,but you;ll lose quality.So you must have 15 DVDs,or atleast 7or 8.So id capture them one at a time,name them and then bring them into storyline one at atime.then you can split them up into a sequence that makes sense.Once you have the sequence done and named,then go back into videowave and drag the files in the order you want,remebering the hour limit.When you get the first production done burn it as an iso file first, so you know it works.there are several threads here on making chapters so do a search in this forum and itll tell you how to do that.hope this helps.bob

[AncientGeek]

bobstripower, on Sep 12 2006, 09:11 AM, said:

A high quality DVD will hold only an hour of film.You can get more,but you;ll lose quality.So you must have 15 DVDs,or atleast 7or 8.So id capture them one at a time,name them and then bring them into storyline one at atime.then you can split them up into a sequence that makes sense.

You are correct, I have 7 DVDs at around 2hrs each.

Thanks.

[ml]

AncientGeek, on Sep 12 2006, 06:17 PM, said:

You are correct, I have 7 DVDs at around 2hrs each.
Thanks.

Are these mpeg2 files on the DVD?  

The first thing you're going to have to do is see if the Capture program will capture the footage on the DVDS.

Then VideoWave is the correct program to edit the video and DVD Builder is used to make menus and chapters.

You can only get around one hour of 'best' video onto a DVD with EMC7.

Try capturing the video and let us know if that works first.

[AncientGeek]

mlpasley, on Sep 12 2006, 03:26 PM, said:

Are these mpeg2 files on the DVD?

They are directories/files of a playable DVD, such as "VIDEO_TS" and "VIDEO_TS", "VTS_*" names.

When I "capture", I seem to end up with an MPEG4 file?

Life was so much simpler in the old days when I could just physically look at the film and decide what to splice!!!

Thanks for the response.

Dave

[ml]

If you're capturing with Easy Media Creator 7, you're getting an mpeg2 file.

Now open VideoWave and drag and drop that captured video onto the storyline.  

I find the easiest way to split the video into scenes that I want ( and delete the ones I don't want ), is to switch to the Timeline View.   Then either drag the orange bar or preview the video until you find the place you want to edit and do a 'split'.

Then when you're done, hit the burn button which will open up DVD Builder and burn the DVD.

If you run into problems, please let us know.

[AncientGeek]

mlpasley, on Sep 15 2006, 02:54 PM, said:

If you run into problems, please let us know.

Thanks, I will give it a good workout!

[AncientGeek]

mlpasley, on Sep 15 2006, 02:54 PM, said:

If you're capturing with Easy Media Creator 7, you're getting an mpeg2 file.
Now open VideoWave and drag and drop that captured video onto the storyline.

No problem, that worked fine.

Then I followed this:

mlpasley, on Sep 15 2006, 02:54 PM, said:

I find the easiest way to split the video into scenes that I want ( and delete the ones I don't want ), is to switch to the Timeline View.   Then either drag the orange bar or preview the video until you find the place you want to edit and do a 'split'.

Got the orange bar at the point where I wanted the split (actually to dump some black at the beginning).

Big problem (so far) is that when I click the "split", the entire instance of VideoWave just crashes.

It's EMC7.5 with latest patches, XP Media Center, 1GB RAM, PIV @ 3.06Ghz and about 10GB of free space on the hard drive.

There are no error messages or crash dumps...just a complete closure of the VideoWave program.

I hope that doesn't mean I'm headed to CompUSA for V9!

TIA for any insights.

Dave

Edited by AncientGeek, 22 September 2006 - 02:26 PM.

[myguggi]

AncientGeek, on Sep 22 2006, 06:24 PM, said:

No problem, that worked fine.

Then I followed this:


Got the orange bar at the point where I wanted the split (actually to dump some black at the beginning).

Big problem (so far) is that when I click the "split", the entire instance of VideoWave just crashes.

It's EMC7.5 with latest patches, XP Media Center, 1GB RAM, PIV @ 3.06Ghz and about 10GB of free space on the hard drive.

There are no error messages or crash dumps...just a complete closure of the VideoWave program.

I hope that doesn't mean I'm headed to CompUSA for V9!

TIA for any insights.

Dave

Only 10 GB of free disc space? That could be creating problems especially if that 10GB is also fragmented. How long in time is that video you are trying to edit?