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What you can do with video on your PC

If you are just going to put your video on to video tape

If you are just going to put your video on to video tape there is still a good reason to use your PC. not to capture all the
video just enough to add special effects, titles and credits.

For example
You could grab some of the video footage and run a title over it. Grab another bit of footage and add a few special effects
like wipes, fades and maby a bit of slow-motion. Then grab another bit for to run a few end credits over.

Then once you have your Title, Effects and End Credits edited and rendered on your PC.
Connect your PC via the TV out on the graphics card or the capture card to your video.
If you connect to the TV out of your graphics card you can play the video on windows media player or your DVD player.
"Remember that if you have TV out on your graphics card you can also do titles and credits with Power Point and some
photo editing software".
If you connect to the TV out of your capture card you probably must playback with the video editing software that came with
the card.
So with your edited video title ready to play have your VCR ready to record and press play on you'r PC. Then press pause on
you'r VCR when the title is finished.
Now connect the Camera to the VCR and record up until were you want to put in the special effects, and End Credits.
(By doing it this way you will save on hard drive space and time. And still end up with good results.)

Then how about making a Video CD.

You can put about 50 minutes of VCD on a CDR disk.

For example putting your wedding video on CD and watching it on your PC or DVD player. (Most DVD players will play VCD
but not all.) Video CD's have about the same quality as VHS video tape.

If you want to make Video CD's
If you want to make Video CD's you will have to capture all to video to the PC. Meaning that you will have to have a large
hard drive, (or else do it in stages which takes a long time ) and software such as Videowave 4 or Uleed VideoStudio 5 to convert
the video to VCD format. And of course a CD Rewriter and CDRW software to burn the finished VCD to CDR disk.

For VCD
Capture the video using the highest quality capture that your card and PC will let you. Edited out in Videowave 4 or Uleed
VideoStudio 5. And when you have your editing done render it to VCD format. It's better to do this in 10 or 15 minute
Stages. Doing it in stages has two advantages.
1. If you make a mistake or your PC crashes you do not have much to make up for.
2. You can jump from scene to scene on your DVD player.
Putting your finished VCD on Disk

Burning your VCD to CDR Disk
Burning your VCD to CDR Disk you will need ether Nero burning ROM 5 or Easy CD Creator 4 which both have VCD features.
Easy CD Creator also gives you the option of using navigating menus on your VCD, which is a little more complated.
This process is very well explained at VCD HELP .

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