I'll try to give as much info as possible, and thanks in advance for the help... I'm a video noob!
Panasonic Photoshot Palmcorder VHS-C, model PV-L958D.
It came w/ a cable that has 2 RCA connections on the end, one for video, one for audio. I used a RCA to S-Video converter and another mini audio plug converter into my Leadtek Winfast Deluxe TV2000XP PCI card.
I used the Winfast capture software, w/ video capture settings set to Uncompressed AVI, and a default resolution of 320x240 NTSC, which I couldn't change. No audio options were available.
I had 3 tapes to capture video from and after using VirtualDub to create 15 separate avi clips, totaling a total of 44.5GB. Each clip is a different day of a 2 week vacation my parents went on.
Time for my questions (finally):
1. The end result I'm looking for is to burn these to a DVD. Do I have to "join" all of these videos into a single avi then convert to mpg file before burning the DVD? Or will just converting each file be to mpg be okay?
2. What do I use to convert from avi to mpg, and will all this video fit on a single DVD? I'm more worried about keeping the quality of the video (which isn't great to start with), than how many DVD's I end up burning, but 1 would be great!
4. Any good freeware DVD authoring apps? All I want to do is create scene selection points for each day of the vacation (15). I have some SE versions of software that came w/ my DVD burner (Ulead VideoStudio 7, Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2.5, and Ulead Cool 3D 3.0). Would any of those work?
Panasonic Photoshot Palmcorder VHS-C, model PV-L958D.
It came w/ a cable that has 2 RCA connections on the end, one for video, one for audio. I used a RCA to S-Video converter and another mini audio plug converter into my Leadtek Winfast Deluxe TV2000XP PCI card.
I used the Winfast capture software, w/ video capture settings set to Uncompressed AVI, and a default resolution of 320x240 NTSC, which I couldn't change. No audio options were available.
I had 3 tapes to capture video from and after using VirtualDub to create 15 separate avi clips, totaling a total of 44.5GB. Each clip is a different day of a 2 week vacation my parents went on.
Time for my questions (finally):
1. The end result I'm looking for is to burn these to a DVD. Do I have to "join" all of these videos into a single avi then convert to mpg file before burning the DVD? Or will just converting each file be to mpg be okay?
2. What do I use to convert from avi to mpg, and will all this video fit on a single DVD? I'm more worried about keeping the quality of the video (which isn't great to start with), than how many DVD's I end up burning, but 1 would be great!
4. Any good freeware DVD authoring apps? All I want to do is create scene selection points for each day of the vacation (15). I have some SE versions of software that came w/ my DVD burner (Ulead VideoStudio 7, Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2.5, and Ulead Cool 3D 3.0). Would any of those work?
