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what do i need to write DVDs?
Ok, so I'm looking for advice on what sort of computer equipment I need for
the project I'm taking on. I work at a talent agency and we want to be able to put together our actors' demo reels on DVD. Up to now, we have been using video tape. For a bunch of different reasons that are pretty obvious, it would be better to have them on DVD. Generally, the reels will only be 10-15 minutes in length. We need the DVDs we make to be playable on standard DVD players, not just DVD-ROMs or whatever. We also need to be able to extract scenes from other DVDs and then save them permanently to the hard drive so that whenever we need to cut a new reel, we can do it relatively easily. So given what we want to do, what kind equipment and software do we need? I'm thinking we may just buy a new computer specifically for this task. I've been given a budget of $4K or so, but I was hoping to do it for far less. Any recommendations would be much appreciated. |
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1) A DV camcorder
2) Computer with large hard drive and firewire input. 3) DVD recorder (burner) 4) Blank media 5) Software for editing (most DVD burners will come with this) 6) Time "Marcellus Wallace" wrote in message ink.net... Ok, so I'm looking for advice on what sort of computer equipment I need for the project I'm taking on. I work at a talent agency and we want to be able to put together our actors' demo reels on DVD. Up to now, we have been using video tape. For a bunch of different reasons that are pretty obvious, it would be better to have them on DVD. Generally, the reels will only be 10-15 minutes in length. We need the DVDs we make to be playable on standard DVD players, not just DVD-ROMs or whatever. We also need to be able to extract scenes from other DVDs and then save them permanently to the hard drive so that whenever we need to cut a new reel, we can do it relatively easily. So given what we want to do, what kind equipment and software do we need? I'm thinking we may just buy a new computer specifically for this task. I've been given a budget of $4K or so, but I was hoping to do it for far less. Any recommendations would be much appreciated. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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A PC ca. 1 ghz.
Windows 2000 or XP Pinnacle PCI analog to video direct MPEG or Canopus (do not go AVI and convert...the time is not worth it for videotape). Get a hardware MPEG2 encoder. DVD Burner-Pioneer A04 DVD Author or DVDXMAKER software. well under $2K. see www.videoguys.com for such. ' "Marcellus Wallace" wrote in message ink.net... Ok, so I'm looking for advice on what sort of computer equipment I need for the project I'm taking on. I work at a talent agency and we want to be able to put together our actors' demo reels on DVD. Up to now, we have been using video tape. For a bunch of different reasons that are pretty obvious, it would be better to have them on DVD. Generally, the reels will only be 10-15 minutes in length. We need the DVDs we make to be playable on standard DVD players, not just DVD-ROMs or whatever. We also need to be able to extract scenes from other DVDs and then save them permanently to the hard drive so that whenever we need to cut a new reel, we can do it relatively easily. So given what we want to do, what kind equipment and software do we need? I'm thinking we may just buy a new computer specifically for this task. I've been given a budget of $4K or so, but I was hoping to do it for far less. Any recommendations would be much appreciated. |
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Ooops...Any Pioneer ca. A06.
"luminos" wrote in message ... A PC ca. 1 ghz. Windows 2000 or XP Pinnacle PCI analog to video direct MPEG or Canopus (do not go AVI and convert...the time is not worth it for videotape). Get a hardware MPEG2 encoder. DVD Burner-Pioneer A04 DVD Author or DVDXMAKER software. well under $2K. see www.videoguys.com for such. ' "Marcellus Wallace" wrote in message ink.net... Ok, so I'm looking for advice on what sort of computer equipment I need for the project I'm taking on. I work at a talent agency and we want to be able to put together our actors' demo reels on DVD. Up to now, we have been using video tape. For a bunch of different reasons that are pretty obvious, it would be better to have them on DVD. Generally, the reels will only be 10-15 minutes in length. We need the DVDs we make to be playable on standard DVD players, not just DVD-ROMs or whatever. We also need to be able to extract scenes from other DVDs and then save them permanently to the hard drive so that whenever we need to cut a new reel, we can do it relatively easily. So given what we want to do, what kind equipment and software do we need? I'm thinking we may just buy a new computer specifically for this task. I've been given a budget of $4K or so, but I was hoping to do it for far less. Any recommendations would be much appreciated. |
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Thanks for the input.
What is a Pinnacle PCI analog to video direct MPEG or Canopus? Is that a video card? Software? Also, what is a Pioneer ca. AO6? A model of burner? Thanks again. "luminos" wrote in message ... Ooops...Any Pioneer ca. A06. "luminos" wrote in message ... A PC ca. 1 ghz. Windows 2000 or XP Pinnacle PCI analog to video direct MPEG or Canopus(do not go AVI and convert...the time is not worth it for videotape). Get a hardware MPEG2 encoder. DVD Burner-Pioneer A04 DVD Author or DVDXMAKER software. well under $2K. see www.videoguys.com for such. ' "Marcellus Wallace" wrote in message ink.net... Ok, so I'm looking for advice on what sort of computer equipment I need for the project I'm taking on. I work at a talent agency and we want to be able to put together our actors' demo reels on DVD. Up to now, we have been using video tape. For a bunch of different reasons that are pretty obvious, it would be better to have them on DVD. Generally, the reels will only be 10-15 minutes in length. We need the DVDs we make to be playable on standard DVD players, not just DVD-ROMs or whatever. We also need to be able to extract scenes from other DVDs and then save them permanently to the hard drive so that whenever we need to cut a new reel, we can do it relatively easily. So given what we want to do, what kind equipment and software do we need? I'm thinking we may just buy a new computer specifically for this task. I've been given a budget of $4K or so, but I was hoping to do it for far less. Any recommendations would be much appreciated. |
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A06 DVD+/- R burner.
Pinnacle PCI analog: Hardware and software for analog capture to hard disk. Canopus also makes such a system. Again, see www.videoguys.com. They will help you by phone to get the right stuff for what you need to do. Another option, of course, is to get a Panasonic DMR-80 for $500 that is a stand alone (no computer) recorder. Simply plug your camera in and record (no fancy menus or editing...but it is fast and easy). "Marcellus Wallace" wrote in message ink.net... Thanks for the input. What is a Pinnacle PCI analog to video direct MPEG or Canopus? Is that a video card? Software? Also, what is a Pioneer ca. AO6? A model of burner? Thanks again. "luminos" wrote in message ... Ooops...Any Pioneer ca. A06. "luminos" wrote in message ... A PC ca. 1 ghz. Windows 2000 or XP Pinnacle PCI analog to video direct MPEG or Canopus(do not go AVI and convert...the time is not worth it for videotape). Get a hardware MPEG2 encoder. DVD Burner-Pioneer A04 DVD Author or DVDXMAKER software. well under $2K. see www.videoguys.com for such. ' "Marcellus Wallace" wrote in message ink.net... Ok, so I'm looking for advice on what sort of computer equipment I need for the project I'm taking on. I work at a talent agency and we want to be able to put together our actors' demo reels on DVD. Up to now, we have been using video tape. For a bunch of different reasons that are pretty obvious, it would be better to have them on DVD. Generally, the reels will only be 10-15 minutes in length. We need the DVDs we make to be playable on standard DVD players, not just DVD-ROMs or whatever. We also need to be able to extract scenes from other DVDs and then save them permanently to the hard drive so that whenever we need to cut a new reel, we can do it relatively easily. So given what we want to do, what kind equipment and software do we need? I'm thinking we may just buy a new computer specifically for this task. I've been given a budget of $4K or so, but I was hoping to do it for far less. Any recommendations would be much appreciated. |
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Hi Marcellus, Although you've gotten several excellent responses, the fact is that no one can advise you without one critical piece of information. You mention "demo reels". What are these? What format are they in? What media are they on? From your post, we know that the desired output is a DVD that'll play on any standard DVD player. But before we can advise you about what is necessary in the middle to accomplish your desired outout, we need to have a full definition of the input. Without knowing all the details, I'd suggest that you'll wind up committing at least two-thirds of your budget for hardware and software. Some of the hardware already recommended would very quickly prove to be inadequate for the task at hand. "Marcellus Wallace" wrote in message ink.net... Ok, so I'm looking for advice on what sort of computer equipment I need for the project I'm taking on. I work at a talent agency and we want to be able to put together our actors' demo reels on DVD. Up to now, we have been using video tape. For a bunch of different reasons that are pretty obvious, it would be better to have them on DVD. Generally, the reels will only be 10-15 minutes in length. We need the DVDs we make to be playable on standard DVD players, not just DVD-ROMs or whatever. We also need to be able to extract scenes from other DVDs and then save them permanently to the hard drive so that whenever we need to cut a new reel, we can do it relatively easily. So given what we want to do, what kind equipment and software do we need? I'm thinking we may just buy a new computer specifically for this task. I've been given a budget of $4K or so, but I was hoping to do it for far less. Any recommendations would be much appreciated. |
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"Colon Terminus" wrote in message ... Hi Marcellus, Although you've gotten several excellent responses, the fact is that no one can advise you without one critical piece of information. You mention "demo reels". What are these? What format are they in? What media are they on? From your post, we know that the desired output is a DVD that'll play on any standard DVD player. But before we can advise you about what is necessary in the middle to accomplish your desired outout, we need to have a full definition of the input. Good point. Demo reels are 10-15 minutes long. They are usually a few different scenes from an actor's appearances on film and television. Some of the stuff we have to transfer to the hard drive is on video tape and the rest of it is on DVD. So, for example, what I'd be doing is lifting a client's scene from a videotape of Friends, a scene from the Swordfish DVD, etc. I want to be able to have them all on the hard drive so I can cut a different reel for each actor depending on what job I'm pitching an actor him/her for. Anyway, we have been doing these on video tape up to this point, and as you can imagine it's time-consuming and the quality isn't that great. We want to make the switch to DVD because the quality is better and because we can do non-linear editing. I hope that helps explain our needs a little better. Any advice would be much appreciated. |
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You cannot really improve the quality of videotape (analog) by transfering
to DVD. In your case, I think the Canopus MVR1000 analog capture with a Pioneer A06 and DVDXMaker or MovieFactory or Workshop is the best idea since you want to work from hard drive. |
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