How to:Composite video to DVD

[Bedford]

I have a P4 2.4Ghz 512 Ram and a ATI All in Wonder 9600 pluged into an AGP x4 socket.
I am doing video capture from VCR using ATI software "Pinnacle Studio 8". The video capture part is as fast as the VCR playback but then the "rendering" takes over an hour for a one hour long tape and then compressing or something of the sort takes another hour or so then the burning. Is this right or am I using a wrong setting somewhere?

 

[Matthias99]

That sounds about right for raw AVI->MPEG2 encoding, or re-encoding to DVD resolution (720x480).

If you encode straight to 720x480 MPEG2, you might be able to skip the encoding later on. But that takes a real beefy CPU to do in real-time with a software encoding card.

 

[Bedford]

When you say real beefy CPU, is my Pentium 4 @ 2.4 Ghz fast enough? Seeing that my mother board only goes to AGP X4 is that a problem? Any chance that I can us "Direct to Disk" from Roxio?

 

[imverygifted]

sounds like your doing it right, video card doesn't matter as much as you think it would for rendering videos- its more your processor

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Bedford
When you say real beefy CPU, is my Pentium 4 @ 2.4 Ghz fast enough?

Maybe; it was pushing it on my AXP 2500+ with a TV Wonder VE, and I was only capturing at 640x480. P4s tend to be better at encoding, though, so maybe it wouldn't be a problem.

Seeing that my mother board only goes to AGP X4 is that a problem?

No. Why would that even matter? Obviously the bottleneck is not the video card.

Any chance that I can us "Direct to Disk" from Roxio?

No clue what that even is. Recording straight to a DVD, maybe?

 

[Bedford]

I tried Roxio's "Plug & Burn" or like someone else calls it "Direct to Disk" and it worked! (untill one of the kids switch off the split plug feeding the outlet to the VCR). I guess like some of the software makers said, it saves HDD space. The disadvantage is that there is no chance to edit.