[geeks] Transferring Video to DVD

[Jonathan Eisch]

Cheapest/quickest: new iMac with superdrive, using iDVD software.  About 
$1800.

More professional/more expensive: G4 with superdrive using DVD studio 
Pro.

Get a Mac, get a superdrive.  From there, I like the Formac Studio to 
get the video in the system, Firewire in/out, composite and S-video 
in/out and a TV tuner, about $400 iirc.

iMovie should be fine for getting video in the system.

iDVD is free with any computer with a superdrive, and is very easy/fast 
to use, but will limits your choices for compression, as it will only 
encode at around 5mb/s, though that may not be a problem.  DVD studio 
pro is a professional program, and gives you complete control over the 
DVD making process.  It does take a lot more work to make a disk 
though.  and it costs about $1000.

-Jonathan

On Sunday, February 17, 2002, at 07:55  AM, s at avoidant.org wrote:

> Hola!
>
> OK, so my wife's got a project at work; She's got hundreds of hours of
> video that she wants to transfer to DVD (she was thinking CD, but I
> showed her the error of her ways). I told her I'd do it for the cost of
> the hardware. She'll try to get the budget for it.
>
> So now I need to know what you folks recommend for my hardware list for
> this project. Personally, I was thinking a Mac G4 with firewire, a BIG
> hard drive, a DVD burner, and some sort of VCR with firewire if there is
> such a thing.
>
> Now I'll sit back and wait for the advice to flow, as I know it will...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> ---sambo
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