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During last weekend I made several experiments on authoring DVD. I encoded Rasha’s videos which were originally in DV tape to WMV format. I used Windows Movie Maker to capture 15 minutes footage from Mini DV tape and then saved as High Quality NTSC WMV (2.1 Mbps) that occupies around 14 MB data per minute.

After done some editing on the movie clips including adding some titles and transition effects, it is time to build as DVD format. Windows Movie Maker does not have built-in function to do that, therefore Adobe Encore DVD was chosen as the easy thing. I installed Encore DVD tryout version (30 days trial – enough for testing though), and used transcoding feature to convert from WMV to VOB which is understandable by DVD Video burner.

This was a tedious task; it took me almost an hour waiting for transcoding process to be finished. Encore DVD built all necessary folders which will be imported to DVD Video software. Free Easy Burner has done this easily to burn the VOB format to DVD media. And the result looks great although there were certain visible artifacts due to compression. The quality may even better if you capture the DV tape to original DV AVI file which will consume around 180 MB per minute. It could reduce the compression artifacts in the final DVD.

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