capture from DVD
by edgar gillham
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Nov 1, 2009 at 3:52:13 pm
I have not been able to find a method to capture from Standard DVD. I run an analog camcorder into a stand alone DVD recorder to get 6 hours surveillance video's. I then try to edit the video by capturing into sony vegas movie studio 7. Vegas captures DVD from camcorders without any problems but so far I have been unsuccessful capturing from standard DVD.
Re: capture from DVD by Terry Esslinger on Nov 1, 2009 at 11:18:33 pm
If by 'standard dvds' you mean recordable dvds, it appears that sometimes there is a problem capturing from these. You use the 'import dvd camcorder disc' from the file menu right?
Re: capture from DVD by Mike Kujbida on Nov 2, 2009 at 12:41:22 am
If you're putting 6 hr. of surveillance on a standard DVD, you're kicking the cr*p out of the quality of your source video.
Even if it's only 2 hr. that you're transferring, it's still taking a quality hit and you don't want to do that with surveillance video.
You'd be much better off finding a minDV camcorder that has the pass-through feature and capturing it that way.
This way, the quality loss will be minimal.
Re: capture from DVD by edgar gillham on Nov 2, 2009 at 4:38:49 am
yes, I'm using recordable DVDs but it shouldn't matter whether recordable or prerecorded commercially so long as they are not encrypted. I use the term standard as opposed to minidvd used in camcorders. My question is "is there a way to capture from DVDs other than directly from a cam corder?".
Re: capture from DVD by Mike Kujbida on Nov 2, 2009 at 2:15:26 pm
"Vegas looks for a camcorder but there isn't one."
That's because Vegas needs to see it hooked up to a firewire port which is why I suggested a miniDV camcorder with the pass-through feature.
"full sized DVD is in the computer's DVD player and sony vegas can't see it."
Can your computer see the DVD?
You're certain you followed the proper procedure?
That is, File - Import - DVD Camcorder Disc.
If the disc is full, it will take quite a while to do the conversion but it's never failed me in all the years that I've been doing it.
