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how to burn a dvd?

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rchong

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I have a fujitsu lifebook that came with a DVD-burner and the InterVideo WinDVD creator program. I used the program to capture media from my camcorder via a firewire, and now I want to burn it onto a DVD. I have the Veritas Record Now burning program, but it seems that I can only burn a VCD with that. Do I have to buy a separate DVD specific burning program? I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to computers, so pardon the simplicity of my question. I can't seem to figure out how to use my DVD burner, whether I need to buy a DVD burning program or if the programs I have would suffice.

Also, the images that I captured from my camcorder are not the best quality...anyone know how I can capture better quality? Just looking to burn home movies onto DVD. Thanks!
 
Welcome to AT rchong 🙂

I'm sure you don't need a separate DVD specific burning program for what you want to do. Have you read the help files for the InterVideo WinDVD creator program?

As for capturing better quality this might help:

How can I get the best quality of my video?

There are two ways to get the best quality out of WinDVD Creator. One is to use native input format and the other is to use native output format.

Using analog source like TV, Composite or S-Video, it will be too big to store in native input format (RGB). It is better to pick recording profile to match your native output format.

When your output target is VCD disc, the recording profile should be VCD profile (MPEG1 at 352x240@NTSC, 352x288@PAL).

When your output target is DVD disc, the recording profile should be DVD profiles.

There are several DVD profiles provided in WinDVD Creator, pick the one that your system can reach (P4 can normally handle DVD recording, P3 could handle ½ DVD recording.)

Using DV camcorder via 1394, you can still use the above method as analog source if hard disk space is a concern. If you have plenty hard drive space, you can capture everything in DV AVI type 1 format. Afterward you can get the DV AVI type 1 into editing space, output to VCD/SVCD/DVD as you wish. That'll be the best quality.
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The above was taken from this InterVideo support page:

http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Support.jsp#performance5

I hope this helps 🙂
 
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