authoring question

[clovnul]

Windows Media Player is a joke.
Try KmPlayer. Very easy to use player, with lots of features.

[metlive]

@escape:

windows media player works fine, you just need to download and install the klm codec pack. you don't need another player on your system, this codec pack will make the WMP read everything, even flv-files..

i have no experience on pinnacle software. are you capturing from chinch or firewire cable? if you use a chinch cable, try virtualdub, it's confusing when you see it for the first time, but there are a lot of guides and tutorials in the internet. you can see (while capturing) if the video runs out of sync. if it is happening during recording the video on your hard-disk, your computer may be too slow (f.e. writing 30 mb/sec on your hdd).
if you capture via firewire, you can even use windows movie maker

btw: tmpgenc dvd author is a very powerful tool..

[escape]

@escape:

windows media player works fine, you just need to download and install the klm codec pack. you don't need another player on your system, this codec pack will make the WMP read everything, even flv-files..

i have no experience on pinnacle software. are you capturing from chinch or firewire cable? if you use a chinch cable, try virtualdub, it's confusing when you see it for the first time, but there are a lot of guides and tutorials in the internet. you can see (while capturing) if the video runs out of sync. if it is happening during recording the video on your hard-disk, your computer may be too slow (f.e. writing 30 mb/sec on your hdd).
if you capture via firewire, you can even use windows movie maker

btw: tmpgenc dvd author is a very powerful tool..

First off I want to thank you guys for the suggestions and helpfully info. I've tried a couple of different programs. One being pinnacle and I aslo tried video redo. With pinnacle things are going out of sync and with video redo everything got compressed (big time) for example 11 minutes to 77 seconds. All my stuff are on dvdr's.

[hellawaits77]

@escape:

windows media player works fine, you just need to download and install the klm codec pack. you don't need another player on your system, this codec pack will make the WMP read everything, even flv-files..

i have no experience on pinnacle software. are you capturing from chinch or firewire cable? if you use a chinch cable, try virtualdub, it's confusing when you see it for the first time, but there are a lot of guides and tutorials in the internet. you can see (while capturing) if the video runs out of sync. if it is happening during recording the video on your hard-disk, your computer may be too slow (f.e. writing 30 mb/sec on your hdd).
if you capture via firewire, you can even use windows movie maker

btw: tmpgenc dvd author is a very powerful tool..

First off I want to thank you guys for the suggestions and helpfully info. I've tried a couple of different programs. One being pinnacle and I aslo tried video redo. With pinnacle things are going out of sync and with video redo everything got compressed (big time) for example 11 minutes to 77 seconds. All my stuff are on dvdr's.

I use VideoReDo and have never had problems. Why is it compressing? It shouldn't, as long as you cut it where you need to and go to "Save Video As".

[escape]

@escape:

windows media player works fine, you just need to download and install the klm codec pack. you don't need another player on your system, this codec pack will make the WMP read everything, even flv-files..

i have no experience on pinnacle software. are you capturing from chinch or firewire cable? if you use a chinch cable, try virtualdub, it's confusing when you see it for the first time, but there are a lot of guides and tutorials in the internet. you can see (while capturing) if the video runs out of sync. if it is happening during recording the video on your hard-disk, your computer may be too slow (f.e. writing 30 mb/sec on your hdd).
if you capture via firewire, you can even use windows movie maker

btw: tmpgenc dvd author is a very powerful tool..

First off I want to thank you guys for the suggestions and helpfully info. I've tried a couple of different programs. One being pinnacle and I aslo tried video redo. With pinnacle things are going out of sync and with video redo everything got compressed (big time) for example 11 minutes to 77 seconds. All my stuff are on dvdr's.

I use VideoReDo and have never had problems. Why is it compressing? It shouldn't, as long as you cut it where you need to and go to "Save Video As".

I'm not sure why. Every problem I run into the guys where I got the computer from tell me it's software related and to try every editing progrom until I find one the works.

[LeperMessiah26]

You are wanting to author a dvd, and the files you need are already on a dvd?

Tell us a bit more about the project, and exactly what you intend to do, gives us a bit more info to work with
Is it a show you like thats on dvd, and you just want to add menus etc, and then author it?

[escape]

You are wanting to author a dvd, and the files you need are already on a dvd?

Tell us a bit more about the project, and exactly what you intend to do, gives us a bit more info to work with
Is it a show you like thats on dvd, and you just want to add menus etc, and then author it?

I film my nephew hockey games. I wanted to make menu's and change the chapter points (from the ones that are on there. I was also thinking of doing this some some of my nhl and nfl games.

[LeperMessiah26]

So the stuff is already on dvds then?

[escape]

yes

[LeperMessiah26]

Ok, so why the need to capture it, why not simply rip the dvd, and add the video and audio file into DVDLab, and author? Much easier!!