I use Ulead's Video Studio to create the MPEGs for DVD. Once saved to your drive, future burns will not take long. You can also use Video Studio to burn the disk, but I use their DVD Movie Factory because there are more options.
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http://www.timwerx.net/odds/pcfile.htm
I am an artist, and have five one-hour watercolor instructional videos that I first released in 2000, and would now like to get them onto DVDs. I have the master mini-DV tapes and can download them to my computer via firewire, so the capture part is a non-issue.
I'm confused about what software to get. We got trial/light versions of Nero, ULead and Sonic with the two DVD burners we purchased (one "regular" DVD-RW and one that will burn dual layer DVDs) but are thinking we need to upgrade to the full version of one of these (or maybe something else entirely).
We need software that will (1)burn the DVD so that it cannot be copied once sold and (2)save the "rendered" video to the computer hard drive so that you don't have to go through that hours-long process each time you want to burn another DVD.
I'd also like to know if it is safe to put a label on a DVD disk, or should I look for blank inkjet printable DVD media (are those type of blank discs available?)
Thanks,
Ellen

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