Thanks for your help, one more ? (VHS & DVD)

[unclebob]

First I want to thank all of you for the help that you’ve given me so far. I read and compare all your posts. Here’s my plan, please tell me what you think. So far I’ve gotten a LiteON DVD burner (on sale at Best Buy under the name of BUSlink). For transferring VHS & 8mm to DVD I’m going for the Canopus ADVC-100, it seems (from all I’ve read) to be about the easiest to figure out and keeps audio & video in sync. I’m going to (as your posts suggest) upgrade to Windows XP, increase my RAM to 512, and get and extra Hard Drive (around 60 gigs). Commenting on the above will be appreciated (unless you plan on confusing me more that I already am). There are still a couple of things I could use your help on. I need to get a Firewire for my Canopus ADVC-100, does it matter what kind, any recommendations? As far as software is there any that will do a good job both working with transferring VHS to DVD & Copying DVD to DVD? Do I need different software for both, and will any of this software also allow me to arrange my JPEG’s in such a way as to show them on my DVD player. Some of you have told me that there is editing software that comes with Windows XP, is that sufficient for any of the things I want done? As you can see I’m still a little confused and that’s why I’m calling on you guys.
Well Thanks again for all of your help
God Bless
Uncle Bob

[HeadBand]

you will need some software to compress the video of the dvd's these three articals should help

http://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=136
http://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=137
http://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=139

also if your dvd player will read jpg cds then all you need to do is burn them to a cd(or dvd) also if you want to create menus most burners come with software to do that...it may also let you put photos on if your player is not capable of reading jpg cds

[phenious]

Ok... sounds like you are on the right track. The editing software that comes with Windows XP is basic and I think if you take the time to figure it out it will work well for most of the things you want. Most software that comes with DVD burners offers some basic programs that will allow you to make a slide show on DVD. If not, you should be able to use the windows software or any that you have to take the Jpegs and render them into a video and put that on DVD. Then you can put the burned disk in your DVD player and it will play the pictures and you can even do some voice overs if you like. I think you are making a smart move with the upgrade to WinXP, 512MB of RAM and 60+Gigs of space I hope it goes smoothly and if you have any questions on my articles or anything feel free to post it here or PM me or maybe we can even do a phone call, ask martoch Im a nice guy on the phone If I have confused you in the past or this post Im sorry, I can get over egar sometimes when it comes to doing things I like

-: phenious :-

[john_phoenix]

The best way I have found to keep audio/video sync is to use a little known program called AVI_IO. this little gem records from virtually any source to your hard drive in AVI format. It wall also span drives so your recording can be a long as you have hard drive space for.

[dafanman]

unclebob
My apologies if this has allready been mentioned.
Were you aware of this site VCD Help
Seems to be a great resource for what youre into.

Hope that is some value to you.

Laterz,
dafanman