Advice sought

[erilyn]

I seek help from the collective knowledge and brain power of my friendslist! There are things that I want to do, and need recommendations on the best software for the task. I have done some reading up on this, but am still somewhat at a loss at what to do.

I want to be able to convert media files to dvd-format and burn them, as my dvd burner didn't come with software that could do this. I've got a trial version of Cyberlink's Power Producer 2 Gold, which seems straightforward, but maybe a bit limited and simplistic. What do people use to author dvds and/or convert mpegs/avis/other files to dvd format?

We also have a nice little digital video camera which also came with crappy software which only captures the video at quite crappy quality. I just tried capturing it using Cyberlink's Power Director 3 (trial), but while it captures bigger than the crappy original software, the picture quality still isn't anywhere near good enough to then burn to dvd.

Help?

Comments

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

It slipped my mind too, until I was thinking about actually having time to do some dvd burning :) Thanks, and I will go looking for instructions - I like instructions a lot.

It's downloaded and un-rar'd and seems to have installed ok, thanks! :)

[lemniskate.livejournal.com]

cool. I'm going to go ahead and delete the post with the link, but the programs will still be there for a bit if you need to grab them again. :)