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Greetings all.

I have 2 hours of DV footage (a performance) that I successfully captured.
VS created 7 AVI files from the capture. I didn't do much in the way of
fancy editing because my first experiment was to just create a simple DVD
archive of the two tapes with a few chapters. I basically dove in and
dragged the AVIs onto the timeline and added a transition or two. The
rendering was done to "Fair Quality" MPEG at the time of burning the DVD -
it took double the amount of footage time to complete. FYI my hardware
should be ok - 1.2 ghz w/512MB RAM and 200 GB hard drive.

The DVD itself came out just fine, but here's my next step: I would now like
to create a better end result for presentation on a DVD (i.e. more editing
and stuff to make it "perty"). Could someone please recommend to me the
proper and efficient way to go about working on this project so I don't end
up with a single 4 hour rendering session? Does it involve separating the
AVI into separate clips to work on and then merge together at the time of
DVD authoring?

Jon

 

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"Jon Rosenbaum" <nobody@home.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings all.
>
> I have 2 hours of DV footage (a performance) that I successfully captured.
> VS created 7 AVI files from the capture. I didn't do much in the way of
> fancy editing because my first experiment was to just create a simple DVD
> archive of the two tapes with a few chapters. I basically dove in and
> dragged the AVIs onto the timeline and added a transition or two. The
> rendering was done to "Fair Quality" MPEG at the time of burning the DVD -
> it took double the amount of footage time to complete. FYI my hardware
> should be ok - 1.2 ghz w/512MB RAM and 200 GB hard drive.
>
> The DVD itself came out just fine, but here's my next step: I would now
like
> to create a better end result for presentation on a DVD (i.e. more editing
> and stuff to make it "perty"). Could someone please recommend to me the
> proper and efficient way to go about working on this project so I don't
end
> up with a single 4 hour rendering session? Does it involve separating the
> AVI into separate clips to work on and then merge together at the time of
> DVD authoring?
>
> Jon
>


If you are satisfied with the quality of the mpeg you created - just use
that as your source material and add the transitions you want. The
rendering process should only render the transitions and will not touch the
compliant mpeg. Howver, it is always best to render your avi to mpeg using
the best possible quality for DVD - so you might want to just grin and bear
it

--
Nigel Brooks