Dvd Burning

[Reginna]

Sorry for the topic description I could not resist.l I do have a real quesiton.

I am transferring some8mm cassette tapes to dvd. I am proably doing all of

this the hard way. I am ripping them ( not with roxio I can't figure out the how to

on that) Then I am going through the Video Wave and then to My DVD.

Here is my question

Does it degrade the quality of the video if I use the standard or long play

options? The cassettes where film in long play and are about 11/2 hour to 2 hours

after I edit out on the mistakes etc.

Thanks for your help.

Reginna

[malatekid]

I understand there is compression when you use the EP mode in camcorder so I stick to the Standard mode when I record.

 

For MyDVD, select High Quality.

[bimicher]

Sorry for the topic description I could not resist.l I do have a real quesiton.

I am transferring some8mm cassette tapes to dvd. I am proably doing all of

this the hard way. I am ripping them ( not with roxio I can't figure out the how to

on that) Then I am going through the Video Wave and then to My DVD.

Here is my question

Does it degrade the quality of the video if I use the standard or long play

options? The cassettes where film in long play and are about 11/2 hour to 2 hours

after I edit out on the mistakes etc.

Thanks for your help.

Reginna

A standard 4.7GB DVD will hold 60 minutes of video at high quality. Anything longer will have to be compressed more and there will be some loss in quality. Many of us have found that if you use myDVD to burn to an iso (image file) and then use Copy&Convert to burn the image file to a DVD you seem to get better results then using one of the EP or SP modes.