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Quickest way to go from mini DV to DVD
Can y’all recommend the quickest way to convert many mini DV tapes to DVD w/o any major editing and preferably with the tape code on the DVD, and a couple of chapters.
And, do you know if it is possible to use a DVD recorder to quicken the DVD burning process that normally takes close to an hour on my MAC G5 , using DVD studio Pro. I have a lot of people telling me that there must be a quicker way to do this. Any suggestions?
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The easiest way to do this is to purchase a DVD recorder at a store like Wal-Mart and hook it up. What camera are you coming from? Some cameras will show the info in your viewfinder as output to video.
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Do you have iLife ’06? (Look in iDVD, see if it’s version 6.)
If so, you can use your Mac as a stand-alone burner…it will take a firewire input from a video camera and capture that right to a DVD without menus or chapters.
https://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/features/onestepdvd.html
If you want some chapters without much more work you can do something called “Magic DVD.” You would capture the video with iMovie first and then make a magic DVD in iDVD with the footage. It does some automatic chapter points and an automatic menu. Nothing fancy…more work than the one-step-DVD but a lot LESS work than making the menus yourself.
https://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/features/magicidvd.html
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That is great help. I do have iDVD 5 and there is a OneStep DVD option. Yeah! Is there any way to get the timecode on the DVD? I also have iMovieHD with the Magic iMovie possibility.
Any suggestions?
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