Camcorder hard drive to DVD video
As camcorder hard drives become increasingly popular, there is a demand to put them onto DVD. This tutorial will show you how to take footage's from your hard drive camcorder and convert into DVD without a DVD recorder.
You will need Sony Vegas, and Sony DVD Arthictect.
1) Turn on your hard drive camcorder and drag the *.mts files onto your hard drive.
2) Open Sony Vegas
3) Drag all the files onto the Vegas timeline in the order you want the videos to appear in. Also note that a DVD can hold up to 2 hours of video. I recommend exporting only 1:30hrs of it, because at the Vegas default compression, the video will fit just barely. You can change the Vegas default compression but you might loose some quality, its difficult to tell though.
4) Once you have the *.mts files in Vegas, on the top of the timeline, you can select a loop region which lets you export the specified time video. At the same line that you see the play pause and rewind buttons, over to the right are 3 different time codes. The one furthest to the right tells you the total running time of the region you will choose to export.
5) Select the region that you want to export again keep in mind to export only 1:30hrs of it.
6) Hold down ctrl and press M on the key board. A window will appear. In the drop down menu "save file type", Select Main Concept MPEG-2. Under the drop down menu "template" save as DVD NTSC for the north American video system. It will take a while to compress to DVD NTSC depending on your computer. For a 5 hour video, it took a total of 24 hrs to compress for me.
7) Open Sony DVD Architect and drag the saved file into the left part of the window. Remove the menu item by pressing delete on the key board. That way your DVD will play automatically when placed into the DVD player. Underneath the menu bar, select Make DVD. Then select burn, choose where you want to save the DVD files (video_ts & audio_ts folders). Select next, until you see the burning window in which you can name your DVD. Select the speed in which you want to burn at, I normally burn at 8X. Select finish. Remember to place an empty DVD-R into your DVD writer!
I hope that helps, we can also convert your hard drive video onto DVD at Azure Production
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