[COLUG] Making Video DVD's

[Chris Clonch]

On Thursday 01 November 2007 2:08:28 Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> The cable access channel has discontinued support for VHS and will be
> going to DVD.  I assume I can produce a DVD directly from Kino using a
> DVD burner on the computer.  Is someone familiar with the procedure?  I
> think one time I tried to produce a DVD ISO file with Kino and for our
> 35 minute presentation the encoding process was going to take several
> hours.  I'm running a 1.9 GHz Pentium with 1 GB of Ram (Ubuntu 6.06).
> I've got plenty of hard disk space.

The encoding time sounds about right.  Any video encoding is going to take 
some time, particularly if you are doing a multi-pass VBR, where the number 
crunching is higher.  You might want to make sure the deinterlace option (on 
the Export tab) is set correctly as that could save a little time if your 
video is already progressive.  I typically do all my editing, trial the 
settings on a small clip.  Then when I have everything in line, set it up to 
encode overnight.  I've found raw DV takes up about 12GB of space, so having 
as much disk and RAM as possible helps.

In Windows I used avisynth a lot to minimize disk usage and it hooked in 
nicely with VirtualDubMod.  It appears there is new rewrite which supports 
Linux now.  Downside is the old plugins are not supported and I don't think 
any editing apps support it.

--Chris