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deborahjrossToday I decided to spend some time on the project of transferring our
old family videos to DVD. Spent 6 hours with nothing to show for it.
Disaster #1 was that the one video I had captured some time ago, on my
first go-round, turned out to be too big for the disc. I have no idea
how that happened, as it's a 2 hour tape and the DVD says it holds 2
hours of tape.
Disaster #2-2000 was trying to capture a different tape with Roxio,
the program that came with the DVD burner. It kept not capturing, and
the Help menu kept telling me to click the Video Capture Format
button, which was NOWHERE IN SIGHT. So between the frustration of
making sure everything was properly hooked up (it was) and trying
every possible way to find the @#*&^% ( button and exhausting my
temper using the Help menu, I ended up frazzled, wanting to gorge on
sweets, and too worked up to think straight. I HATE computer stuff!
Finally Dave came around, gave me a terrified look at my mood, said he
thought there was something wrong with the Roxio program, and
suggested I leave it for today.
LEAVE IT??? That's the one thing I can't do when I'm so torqued out of
shape. Finally, I found the other DVD program, Intervideo WinDVD, that
came with the capture device, and that seems to be working fine.
Unless it's capturing the tapes in such a way to make the files too
big for the disks... I don't have 2 hours to run through a tape any
time between now and Monday, so I'll try to calm down enough to do it
then. Roxio's help line should be open then, just in case.
I didn't need to lose an entire day of writing...
old family videos to DVD. Spent 6 hours with nothing to show for it.
Disaster #1 was that the one video I had captured some time ago, on my
first go-round, turned out to be too big for the disc. I have no idea
how that happened, as it's a 2 hour tape and the DVD says it holds 2
hours of tape.
Disaster #2-2000 was trying to capture a different tape with Roxio,
the program that came with the DVD burner. It kept not capturing, and
the Help menu kept telling me to click the Video Capture Format
button, which was NOWHERE IN SIGHT. So between the frustration of
making sure everything was properly hooked up (it was) and trying
every possible way to find the @#*&^% ( button and exhausting my
temper using the Help menu, I ended up frazzled, wanting to gorge on
sweets, and too worked up to think straight. I HATE computer stuff!
Finally Dave came around, gave me a terrified look at my mood, said he
thought there was something wrong with the Roxio program, and
suggested I leave it for today.
LEAVE IT??? That's the one thing I can't do when I'm so torqued out of
shape. Finally, I found the other DVD program, Intervideo WinDVD, that
came with the capture device, and that seems to be working fine.
Unless it's capturing the tapes in such a way to make the files too
big for the disks... I don't have 2 hours to run through a tape any
time between now and Monday, so I'll try to calm down enough to do it
then. Roxio's help line should be open then, just in case.
I didn't need to lose an entire day of writing...
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