VHS to DVD [help me please]

[Munson]

Has anyone done this?

We already have the hardware to feed the video via firewire, and have captured a test sample using Windows Movie Maker. The resulting file is a wmv, and we need to convert and burn to DVD so that it can be played in a regular DVD player.

Or;

Any combo of suggestions welcome. I'm guessing this will all be easier to do on a Mac (iMove/iDVD?), which is fine, so Mac OSX suggestions also appreciated. If iMovie can import from DV devices and spit out a DVD dmg, that would be epic. Off to do some more research into that...


Danke.

 

[Tom]

iDVD should do the job

 

[Munson]

Hmmm I'm not so sure it's that simple from what I'm reading. It appears iDVD can't import wmv files. Although I don't know much about iMovie and what it can do. I think I may just purchase a 6-9 pin 1394b cable and start playing on the MBP instead of Windows. I think it's going to be easier for this kind of video editing stuff.

EDIT: Scrub that. It looks like iDVD can import from a DV device and burn straight to DVD. Thus negating the need to use Windows at all. Plus my keyboard will glow throughout the process. Even better.

 

[McBunny]

windows movie maker live does it not an issue if your on vista/7

 

[Gally]

Old school p**n mate?

 

[Munson]

windows movie maker live does it not an issue if your on vista/7

Windows Live Movie Maker in W7 would not import in colour. We used an old XP machine which already had the original Windows Movie Maker, and that worked a treat (but output as wmv)

Gally, it's not for me. I'm trying to help someone else who has a lot of old VHS tapes that need archiving.

As Tom said, it looks like all I need is iDVD and its one step DVD process. Apple, you f**king PWN.

 

[HarriBanjo]

If you can get it into a .wmv out of Windows Movie Maker then can't you just convert it and burn it using Nero?

 

[conneh]

Nero will be able to do it i would imagine,

Or you can use some opensource program like this which is handy - http://www.dvdflick.net/

 

[JJ!]

Super does it..

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

its freeware.

 

[Munson]

Thanks but it was a piece of piss in the end anyway. iDVD was unable to capture the feed for some reason, so I used iMovie to grab the video, and then converted & burnt with iDVD. Worked a treat.