Hello-
I'm away from my editing computer right now, so i'm asking from memory. Ive been putting my stuff onto video cd, using pinnacle 8. The video cd quality is not exactly what im looking for, ANY improvement is welcome. I was thinking that maybe VHS might have better quality...but i'm not quite sure how to transfer to VHS. The correct way of doing this is that you need to transfer the finished product back onto dv, and then transfer dv from camera to VHS?...do you transfer back through firewire and record into camera? The manual (i think) says that pinnacle 8 has that option under something called AVI? I am right? How do i put my stuff back onto the camera? And i've been thinking about dvd burners too: they're reasonably inexpensive, but i'll be showing my stuff at a school which doesn't have access to a dvd player, so VHS (for now) seems to be the solution.
Thanks for any help-
-alex

Transfer to DV tape and once you're done play the tape and the camera should automatically output an analog signal through the A/V jack on it.

Some cameras can convert from digital to analog on the fly. You may need to toggle A/V <--> DV in/out.

Ok, thanks, but i guess what im really asking is how do you put your finished project back onto DV, using pinnacle 8...i havn't yet figured it out.

Alex,

Put the camera in VCR mode, and make sure you have a tape init.

Go to the 'Make movie' option.

Then select the video option (I think, they might have changed it since I have used it?). It should then render the video and output it to the camera.

I hope this helps,

Ed

ok thanks...