I just got a copy of Nero 6 Ultra and would like to take my 2 hr 8mm video tapes, capture them (I do have a capture card), add menu's and burn them onto DVD+R's. If anyone out has done something similar, could you provide me with some rough instructions to get me started ...there seems to be some many options in Nero. Thanks!
Hi Mike . Let me know how you get on. Im trying to do the same, but dont have a capture card (did you buy it seperately?) Ive almost given up as I cant seem to get any good quality DVD's from my old camcorder .
I bought a separate video capture card that came with its own software, but that software wasn't very good, so I've been looking for alternatives. About the only thing I've found that does work so far is capturing & editing with Pinacle 9, then burning with Nero, but the Pinacle software is quite slow and not very intuitive, so I was wondering if anyone here had tried capturing with Nero. I can't believe no one on this forum has?? Good luck,
Not sure what kind of capture set up you have built, but I have been transcribing VHS tapes to DVD using Nero for 18 months and have had good results. I do use an outboard A/D converter - a Canopus unit which accepts NTSC composite video and line audio inputs, and generates a Firewire output. When the VCR is plugged in, and it and the Canopus unit are turned on, Windows (XP Pro in my case) detects the video source. Then I start Nero Vision Express 3 (I have also used version 2) and start the capture tool. NVE will create an AVI file, at roughly 10GB per hour of material. Once I have finished the capture, I create a DVD image on the hard disk using the other parts of NVE - editing, transitions, chapters, menus. NVE is used as both editor and encoder. Figure on about 5GB output for a 2-hour production. When all of this is done, I burn it to a DVD (DVD-R in my case, but that shouldn't matter) using Nero. These are pretty rough instructions (as you requested), and not too different from the manual. The most likely stumbling blocks will be getting your capture card to talk to your OS and NVE, and making sure you have enough hard disk space (less than 30GB free is problematic) for all the intermediate steps. Oh, and remember that all of this is going to happen in real time - not 2X or 4X or whatever. You have to play the tapes back to capture them, and it will probably take about an hour of wall-clock time to encode an hour of video (or does on my 3GHz P4). So that means a couple of hours activity for every hour of program material. If you start looking around, there are some very serious folks doing much more sophisticated video production using all kinds of specialist software, but I have been happy with the results I get from the Nero suite.
