Camera to VCD

[joker_927]

My mom has a 6-month old Sony Video Camera that uses little tapes. Each tape cost about $10! I keep telling her to just put the Videos on CD's and reuse the Tapes, thus saving us tons of money. Well she finally agreed with one string attached: I am the one that has to get them from the Camera to the CD.

Since a lot of her clients have DVD players and computers, I would think a VCD would be the best thing to make from he videos. I think you have to have a special program from Sony to get the video off of the Camera. Once it is on the HD, which programs can you reccommend for making it into a VCD?

And can VCD's have chapters or similar? So you can use the buttons on the DVD-player to skip parts?

Thank you.

[Brainchild]

You'll need a capture card, or a video card with video in.And if you use Video Studio it will capture to MPEG so you won't have to convert it.

yes you can setup chapters and menus,complete with backgrounds.

hth

[joker_927]

The Camera has a USB cable that allows me to capture the movies from it in AVI format. Then, I downloaded TMPGEnc and VCDeasy. Sounded like a great combination. I converted the AVI file to MPEG-1 or whatever throught TMPGEnc and it went perfect, then I used VCDeasy to convert the MPG video into VCD format (the program makes a Bin/CUE) Then I used Alcohol 120% to burn the Bin/CUE to a CD-R.

I popped it in my DVD player and it would spin up, down, up, down for about 1 min then say NO DISK. If I put it in my CD-ROm and go to the (some folder that I forgot the name of) and open the DAT file with windows media player (this is how you normally play a VCD in Windows) it worked fine!

Maybe our DVD player just sucks, or I have some settings wrong. I guess I will keep trying.