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Encode from DV to MPEG-2 in Real Time

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Finnatic

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Just wondering if someone could clear up some confusion I have. Is Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 capable of doing real-time encoding from a Mini-DV camcorder via firewire to my harddrive in MPEG-2 format? This is a feature that Pinnacle Studio 9 has, but it isn't clear to me if it is present in Easy Media 7, aside from being able to burn to a DVD on the fly from whatever is incoming on the firewire stream. I want to avoid time-consuming transcoding if at all possible by editing directly in MPEG-2 format from my Sony mini-DV tapes without having to do any encoding passes first. I have a 2.53 ghz P4 with 512 mb ram on XP Pro, so I think I should have just barely enough muscle to pull this off.

I have some old videos that I want to convert over to DVD using my Sony camcorder as a passthrough into the firewire port, as well. MPEG2 real time would be a huge asset.

Your expert opinions are highly valued. I bought Roxio based on PC Mag's round-ups, but I don't want to break open the box til I am sure about this one nagging point.
 
real time mpeg2 will need a seriously fast CPU and fast hard drive.

im not sure the format the DV is in but ...

with a 2.2ghz AMD BARTON .. it took me 4 hours to encode 4.5 gigs (2hours) of video into mpeg2 (VOB ready) files for DVD-Video.
 
I believe your camera already records in MPEG 2, doesn't it? So therefore, it's a simple matter of transferring, which I think any good video capture program will do...
 
I want to avoid time-consuming transcoding if at all possible by editing directly in MPEG-2 format from my Sony mini-DV tapes without having to do any encoding passes first.
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If it were me, I'd rather transfer the DV to my hardrive and edit the DV format, and then encode to DVD compliant MPEG-2 to burn. DV is a lossless codec, and especially suited to frame accurate edits. MPEG-2 is a lossy format, you'll eat alot of CPU just to capture it to your hardrive, MPEG-2 edits poorly compared to DV, and you'll likely end up losing more PQ in the end. I thinks its worth the time, especially for your old videos.
 
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