August 31, 2006

  • After all the testings, trial and errors, I'm finally able to make my own home made DVDs. I'm now capable of making a DVD of some shows that I've TiVo'ed, or use the video / photos of what I've taken with my digital camera, and there's also all those videos I've downloaded from the internet.

    In the beginning, I was struggling in creating a DVD that I'm completely satisfied with. I tried to use free or bundled softwares to make a DVD, but the results have always been not to my liking. I finally decided to spend a little more cash to do it right. In the end, it took four specific programs to pull it off. The Adaptec Gamebridge allows me to capture video that did not have those static white noise at the top of the screen, which I saw often in other video capture devices. VideoReDo allowed me to edit my captured video in a very easy and convenient way. Pinnacle System's Studio 10 is the best encoding program I found to make the captured videos DVD complaint. Finally, DVDlab is the best authoring tool I've tried to make my ideal DVDs. Then I used Nero to actually burn the DVD. You can do the math on how much I spent total, but I think it was worth it. I haven't completely perfected the authoring part (my friend's DVD player doesn't play the sound for some reason), but I've made great progress.

    Right now I have two projects that I've done so far.
    1) San Diego Comic-Con 2006 special (2 DVDs)
    2) My recent trip to Catalina island