Yeah they got DVD Studio Pro for that, but its so damn expensive and Mac cracks are hard to come by.
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Yeah they got DVD Studio Pro for that, but its so damn expensive and Mac cracks are hard to come by.
Get a VCR with S-Video out and get a capture card like Radeon with S-video in. Do not use Mpeg4 or Divx compression when capturing real time video. Use Mpeg2 for 640x480. Make sure that you have at least 10gigs free for the files. High quality compressed Mpeg2 640x480 de-interlaced NTSC video is around 31megs a minute. You can encode at lower quality of course and achieve smaller file sizes. I do all my editing in Premiere, and it sucks. I don't like Premiere, but on PC there really is no other choice. It was difficult to learn and is not intuitive at all, unlike Photoshop. My mac probably couldn't deal with final cut pro.:( I would however recommend that you don't recompress most of the video because that incurs a large penalty in quality. If you want to add titles and other effects, separate that part of the video and apply your effect then use something like Virtual Dub to insert it back in. DVDs are in Mpeg2 format so it makes sense to encode and keep everything in that format. Check out Gordian Knot and TMPGEnc Plus.