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How To Capture DV .AVI Files From A Mini DV (or Digital 8) Camcorder Using Ulead VideoStudio 7.01
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How To Author A DVD[an error occurred while processing this directive]When you have finished editing your DV .avi video, you can export a finished DV .avi file from your project by clicking SHARE > CREATE VIDEO FILE > SAME AS PROJECT SETTINGS.



A new CREATE VIDEO FILE pop-up menu will appear. Note how the menu below lists the properties that you chose for your project:



Name the file you wish to create and then click the SAVE button. VideoStudio will write the DV .avi file to the folder you designate in the SAVE IN drop-down list of the menu pictured above.

Start a new VideoStudio project. This time, however, choose your MPEG project settings. You will eventually learn how to tweak these settings to meet your individual needs. For the sake of example, I suggest you adjust your project settings as follows:

NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Field Order A
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 8264 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48 KHz, Stereo



Give your new MPEG project a name and save it.

For step three, click the icon that appears to be an open folder - in the left lower corner of the VideoStudio interface.



After clicking the icon, click the pop-up menu's INSERT VIDEO option and browse to the location of the DV .avi file that you saved earlier. Click OPEN to import the file into your timeline. At this point, you may see this following message:



In this particular case, you should click the NO button because your goal is to convert your DV .avi file to a DVD-ready MPEG-2 file. So click NO and your DV .avi file should then import into the timeline of your MPEG project as the screen shot below illustrates.



For step four, click SHARE > CREATE VIDEO FILE > SAME AS PROJECT SETTINGS.

Note the CREATE VIDEO FILE menu automatically selects the project settings for your MPEG that you specified earlier when you saved your MPEG project in step two.



Type a name for the new file you will be encoding and click the SAVE button to save the new MPEG file to the folder of your choice on the hard disk of your choice. After you click the SAVE button, Ulead's MPEG.Now codec will convert your DV .avi source file to a DVD-ready MPEG-2 file. This will take some time. In the screen shot above, I named my file "Rendered_MPEG." It would be a good idea to save your VideoStudio project after you finish rendering out the new MPEG.

For step five, click FILE > NEW PROJECT.

Click FILE > SAVE AS and create a new project file for your DVD authoring project.


There should be no clips in your VideoStudio timeline at this point.

Click the SHARE button and then click CREATE DISC.



For step six, observe how the VideoStudio 7.01 DVD authoring module interface opens.



Choose DVD in the output disc format drop-down list as shown in the screen shot.

For step seven, click the ADD VIDEO button and browse to the location of the Rendered_MPEG file and click OPEN to import the file.



Remember - a typical consumer DVD disc can only hold 4.37gb of data so you must keep the size of your MPEG file from exceeding that limitation. Purely for the sake of illustration, I have imported a tiny 9mb MPEG file. Normally, one would import a much larger file that would take advantage of the space available on a typical consumer DVD disc. Since I have already prepared this file to be a DVD-ready MPEG-2 file, there's no need for any further encoding.

For step eight, click the second button in the lower left corner of the interface so that the project settings menu appears.



Click the CHANGE MPEG SETTINGS button and adjust your project so that the properties of the project match the properties of your imported video/audio. Check the DO NOT CONVERT COMPLIANT MPEG FILES box. Note how you can also select different AFTER PLAYBACK options. In this example, I have selected the BACK TO MENU option in the drop-down list. Click OK and then click the NEXT button to advance to the next step of the DVD authoring module.

For step nine, design your DVD menu.

Ulead makes this very easy.

In this example, I have typed "Mountain Scenes" as the heading at the top of the page and I have named the thumbnail "Montana."



I have also selected a background template from the list of templates that you can see on the right hand side of the interface.

To select a background, simply double-click on a template thumbnail.

You will note there is a check box option to include a chapter menu and you can also click on the BACKGROUND MUSIC icon if you wish to browse to an audio file to be imported into the project as background music.

Click the NEXT button to advance to the next step of the DVD authoring module.

For step ten, you will test your project using a built-in software DVD player.



If you are satisfied with the results of the software DVD player test, click the NEXT button to advance to the next step of the DVD authoring module.

For step eleven, you will observe the final menu step of the VideoStudio DVD authoring module.



I have checked the RECORD TO DISC box in the screen shot above.

I have also selected my Panasonic SW-9571 disc burner from the DRIVE drop-down list.

Click the OUTPUT ADVANCED SETTINGS and BURNER ADVANCED SETTINGS buttons to choose additional, optional settings as you prefer.

To record the video file to the disc, click the OUTPUT button in the lower right corner of the interface.

Since you earlier adjusted your project settings to match the properties of your DVD-ready MPEG-2 file, there will be no re-encoding of the file. The software will preserve the quality of the original file and record it to disc.


Jerry Jones is a journalist by training. He’s currently self-employed as an independent consultant. You can reach him at jerry@jonesgroup.net or via his website at http://www.jonesgroup.net

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