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mixture of dvd’s and vhs copies
I’ve finished a 1 hour and 40 minute project of which I need to make around 100 copies. I have vegas5 and dvda3. I have a choice wheather to make them dvd or vhs copies. I know how to make several copies at a time of vhs tapes. I don’t have a dvd recorder to make copies other then just one at a time on my computer, and don’t have the business to justify buying a dvd recorder just for this one time a year project. I’m trying to decide which way to go. I’m not excited about tieing up my computer making copies but I do have a laptop i just bought also. I know if i make dvd’s i will render the clip into mpeg2 but with the video copies does it really matter which way i render the clip avi or mpeg2 to go to print to tape?
Also am wondering out of a 100 dvd copies how many will come back and say they can’t play them in their dvd player. I’ve been pretty lucky so far in my first year at this, only 1 person said they couldn’t play it on their dvd recorder but it played on their moms and friends dvd player. -
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You won’t be able to go out to tape unless it’s a DV avi. If you tried putting a MPEG2 on the timeline and Printing to Tape, Vegas would first have to render it back to DV, and that would lose quality, starting from a compressed format. MPEG2 for DVD, DV avi for Tape.
I don’t know about the cost, but once you’ve successfully burned a DVD you could take it to a local replication business to make the 100 copies.
I’ve burned and printed up to 50 copies, one at a time, and during that process I was doing other work on my laptop, including printing onto the discs and designing/printing DVD cover sleeves, so I wasn’t sitting watching!I use Ritek 4 x or 8x DVD-R dics and I’ve only had one or two rejections out of hundreds. The solution then was to replace with a DVD+R copy. You can never be completely certain, though – there are such a range of new/old DVD players around.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
Thanks Peter….Does it really matter now with the new computers , which formate you burn dvds with? Mine is a dell which burns + disc If i burned with a -disc?
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Things are changing. For a long while DVD-R was found to be the most compatible but that may no longer be so.
If your burner only burns + you have no choice. Many nowadays do both.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au
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