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DVD Transfers
Apologies in advance if this isn’t the right thread but I’ve just been given a job to transfer 10 hours to DVD and am seeking the most efficient, cost effective method of doing so without capturing, compressoring and DVDSPing the whole thing (also without going into hock for more gear). Using FCS 1 and the job must be complete by Friday. So if anyone has a few ‘magic bullets’ they want to share I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks!
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Quickest, easiest way is to just get a DVD recording and play the deck into it. There are models that have component in and are pretty good quality but…
the menus suck, they are the tacky thumbnail of each video. not much control over that.
Other way is to capture, encode and author.
But to do 10 hours should take more then 20-30 hours to do real way.
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MPEG Streamclip is an option too. Just rips the DVD to Quicktime files for editing.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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As others have noted, there’s no real way around the method you describe unless you get a DVD recorder. Compressor is pretty quick for DVD encodes on a newer machine (the more cores the better with compressor), but you still need to spend 10+ hours capturing, and at least twice that encoding.
Note also that the quality will fall considerably if you try to get too much on each disk. 2 hours is an absolute max.
Ben
Edit Out Ltd
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Many thanks.
I was hoping not to have to spend more on equipment right now but guess I’ll have to.
Thanks again!
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