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Tranferring Digital Video to a DVD/CD

Jun 17, 2005 1:08AM PDT

I have invested a lot of time and money in Pinnacal's Studio Plus 9.4 and earlier versions, but I have yet to produce a DVD or CD from my digital camcorder product. The capture feature works fine, but when I try to "make a movie" it spends an hour or two going through the various parts of the captured video and then stalls out without finishing the conversion. I just tried a trial version of the Ulead program and it didn't finish either. Can someone recommend another program for under $100? I am running Windows Xp Professional on a Gateway 700XL fully loaded computer.
Thanks.
Cal Reed

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I've used the Ulead and...
Jun 17, 2005 1:20AM PDT

I don't have this issue. But I've run into far too many machines that lockup when running such programs that tax the CPU for hours.

In your case, I suggest you repair the machine first.

Bob

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Have you tried Windows Movie Maker?
Jun 20, 2005 8:41PM PDT

It is free and worth a try. I use Ulead's MovieFactory that came with my video capture device. It works very well if the video is captured to the hard drive. I didn't have good results when I did a direct burn to DVD. I also have a lot of RAM which I found necessary when burning DVDs or capturing video. If the system is taxed too much, the process freezes or gets out of synch.

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", the process freezes or gets out of synch."
Jun 20, 2005 9:41PM PDT

Wow, what an endorsement of Windows Movie Maker.

Frankly this piece of work is best left uninstalled. I find it's proprietary file format too unfriendly to other tools.

Bob

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I didn't say it happened with Windows Movie Maker
Jun 20, 2005 9:49PM PDT

I said it can happen if your system doesn't have enough power or memory.

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Still not a good endorsement. Here's why.
Jun 20, 2005 10:48PM PDT

The memory issue is "interesting" since Windows is a virtual memory OS. I've run Ulead on 256M RAM on a p3-600 for overnight creation of a DVD on the road and it didn't have an issue with RAM since Windows went virtual when it ran out.

Your statement points to other than the application issues.

Windows Movie Maker is still something I would lead as a tool of last resort given it's inability to work with other tools and file formats. It seems to be a one way street to proprietary files.

That's a bad thing.

Bob