Burning a DVD with a camcorder with hard drive?

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I have a Sony Handycam DCR-SR58 camcorder and I'm trying to burn all the footage onto DVD. The hard drive is filling up, so I'm running out of time! Is it better to do it straight from the camcorder, or can I do it from the video files I've copied onto my external hard drive from the camcorder?
 I installed PMB (picture motion browser) that came with it, but it automatically loaded all my pictures from my laptop into it and when I deleted one, it was deleted from my laptop aswell!
 I tried making a DVD-video using NeroVision, but but when I played it back, there was no sound (on laptop and TV). Also on the TV, it only played one clip at a time. I tried to burn another disc, this time checking 'do not create a menu' but this time it wouldn't play at all and my DVD recorder said 'unsupport' when I tried to play it in that.
 I tried doing it using Windows Live Movie Maker. I added all the video files I wanted to burn, saved it, but when I click on burn (I can only see a burn button in the drop down menu for 'save movie'). But then I couldn't find the video file that I saved on my desktop to burn it. It wasn't listed in the window. It only gave me the option to save it again!
 All I want is to burn all my footage. I don't need anything fancy to edit it. If I know it will be just as good quality to put it on DVD through my DVD recorder, I would just do it on there, but I want to compare it to that and do it the best way.

Palladini · Accepted Answer

Import the video files onto a local hard drive, use a File Converter program to make these files something your NLE can use.  Get a NLE that burn DVD as it renders the flick.  My NLE, Pinnacle Studio 14 HD Ultimate can do that and I have done that a few hundred times.  Fully menu driven DVDs.  The sad part, your Laptop, probably does not have what it takes to run that program.  Here are the specs from the Pinnacle site, take a look -
Minimum System Requirements

    Windows® 7, Windows Vista® (SP2), or Windows XP (SP3)
    Intel® Pentium® or AMD Athlon™ 1.8 GHz (2.4 GHz or higher recommended)
        -Intel Core™ 2 Duo 2.4 GHz required for AVCHD*
        -Intel Core™ 2 Quad 2.66 GHz or Intel Core i7 required for
         AVCHD* 1920
    1 GB system memory recommended, 2 GB required for AVCHD*
    DirectX® 9 or 10 compatible graphics card with 128 MB (256 MB or higher recommended)
        -1 GB required for HD and AVCHD*
    DirectX 9 (or higher) compatible sound card
    3.8 GB of disk space
    DVD-ROM drive to install software

As you can see, the specs for the computer for AVCHD videos is very high.  Without this good of a computer, your going to have world of frustration trying to play and work with HD video.

Here are some screen shots from Pinnacle Studio  http://asimplelife.ca/studio.html

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Anonymous · Answer

You may try this DVD Creator, I always use it to burn video clips to DVD to play on my home DVD player, it supports making DVD menus. And here is a step by step guide about how to use it.
http://www.flash-video-soft.com/burn-dvd/
Hope it helps. Contact me if you have any other question.

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