Burning magnetic tape to DVD without fancy equipment (8mm, VHS,VHS-C, etc.)

Orak Listalavostok wrote:

My first question concerns the mixing of the MPG & AVI file.
Did I have to re-render the WHOLE THING to MPEG-2 (which took forever)?
Could I have just rendered the much smaller last few scenes' AVI to
MPG 2 and then simply COMBINED the two MPG files (large + tiny)?

How?

Pinnacle Studio 8 is clever enough to know whether a movie needs
re-rendering. Presumably this applies to Studio 9 as well. The trick is
to make sure that the output bit rate is the same as the input bit rate
- if it is then the software will simply copy the input to the output.

If you are really worried about the time taken then maybe you should
consider buying a hardware capture/encoder system like the Plextor
ConvertX.

Cheers.

James.