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Well, I have spent hours reading through the different posts on this site and needless to say there is an endless amount of information. Minion, you must be the nicest person on earth for answering so many of these questions for people like me who are new to this. Even with all of this info, I am still a bit confused (mostly about the best software to use) and just want to double check my current set-up and things I am considering getting.
I want to capture video from both my old Sony Hi-8 video camera and my newer digital video camera (Sony DCR-TRV50) and burn them to DVD for play on set top DVD players.
My PC is:
P4(HT) 2.6 GHz
512 MB RAM
Video ? NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB)
Audio ? Creative Soundblaster Live
80 GB hard drive (for OS and Apps)
I just purchased this week:
Plextor DVD Burner (Model PX-708A)
Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 160 GB hard drive (for data, including the video files I am hoping to create)
I am getting in the next couple of days:
Canopus AVEDVio analog/digital capture card
What are the best additional software applications that this set-up will require? From what I have read in this forum I will need something to:
1. Capture the video
2. Edit the video
3. Encode the .avi file to mpeg2/dvd format
4. Author the DVD
I would like to get as high a quality as I can as a lot of my old Hi-8 tapes are of my daughter being born through age 5. That being said, I would also like to do it in the most affordable route I can, especially since I have just spent $400 on the new hardware (DVD Drive, Hard Drive, and Video capture card) for this project. Another thing I would like to do is to be able to burn DVD?s that will play in countries that use PAL. I am in the US, but my in-laws are in Australia and I would like to burn DVD?s of my kids and send them over to them. Any suggestions for software that will do that would be appreciated as well. Thanks in advance to anyone who has any suggestions.
Cheers,
Steve
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