I am working on moving my home videos over to DVD and I have a couple questions...
#1. Not sure what to capture the video at. There is something like low 4mb med 6mb or Best 8mb. With VHS does it really matter what I user here? I mean if I use the best or the worst and burn, won't it still look the same? What I want is the same quality on the VHS to be on the DVD. I don't want to lose anything and still be able to fit 120 minutes (give or take) onto a single 4.7gb DVD. Any recommendations?
#2. What is the best program to use for scrolling and animated credits and text? Something like ending credits plus the ability to change or edit the text as animation... Something like saying STARRING: Mary Smith and then have it explode the last name and change it to your last name Mary Jane. Stuff like that.
Maybe just a seperate text program that I can export to mpg and then put into the film? Thoughts?
Quote:I mean if I use the best or the worst and burn, won't it still look the same?
Well, not exactly. Anytime you transfer or encode, you loose quality. If you want to keep the best possible quality, use the highest possible quality you can acheive, or that the software can make. Then, author your DVD and then use DVDShrink to fit it to a 4.7GB disc. DVDShrink has a better encoding algorithm than most mpeg2 encoders, and you don't have to worry about whether you can fit it on a disc or not. Also, if you can, use a digital video camera to record your videos to. Most cameras have a video amplifier built in, that can reduce flicker, jitter, scanlines, etc... then use a program to rip the video from the camera via fire-wire.
Quote:What is the best program to use for scrolling and animated credits and text?
I've been using Vegas Video to create credits, animated texts and scrolling credits. You can blend backgrounds, video and all that or just leave it black with text... easy to use (mostly). It also can grab video from video cameras very easily (see above)
I've been encoding video from .avi, VHS, DVD, .mov, and SVCD's now for quite a few years on a minimal budget
