Total Newb needs help!!

what format is the original capture in?

The one saved on to data cd is windows media/audio it doesnt say avi or anything. But all I did was capture it on movie maker from my digital sony camcorder.
I appologize for my ignorance.

Doc

you can use a free program called WinDV to capture video from digital camcorder to PC via Firewire (IEEE 1394) in AVI format. After that, you can edit your video with any of your favorite editing programs Adobe Premier, Ulead, Vegas, or use TMPGEnc to encode your video from AVI to MPEG-2;and then author and create DVD with TMPGEnc DVD Author.

Regards

benbryant has some good suggestions there....

LT made a nice comment about benbryant's suggestions...

Thanks alot guys I again appologize I am just trying to learn about all this stuff and I guess like everything else it will take some time. Thanks again to everyone who helped.
One more question, Are any of the programs free downloads or do you have to buy all of them.

Thanks
Doc

well windv is free, and tmpgenc has a free trial
http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda.html

Well here might be a workaround, if you intend to use
"Window Movie Maker" for capturing, editing and making
Video, which can latter be re-encoded to Mpeg-I/Mpeg-2 to be
burned as VCD/DVD using free encoder (such as TMPGEnc).

1. Capture the Videos from source in DV-AVI format.
When you click capture in Movie Maker look for the
format option drop down menu and choose.

2. Edit the video footage as per your requirement.

3. When finished with editing, choose "Save to my
computer" from "Finished Movie" option and again
choose the output format to DV-AVI from the "Make
Movie" dialog box also specify the directory/folder
you are going to save it to (default is My Document/My
Videos).

4. Open TMPGEnc, follow the wizard, which is perfect
for newbee like us. For now you only need to choose
what is the output format you would like it to be,
e:g for VCD choose VCD NTSC/VCD Pal. Then in the next
dailog select your source video (which is the movie
you made via WMM). For the rest click next, next, next
until it begins encoding. Latter you may try other
features availabe in TMPGEnc, it has many.
But mind you it takes ages to encode with more filter
applied.
In my older system, P-III-500Mhz, Ram- 192 MB
40GB HDD 7200 rpm it took almost 4 minutes to encode a
37 secs clip.

5. Finally Make VCD or DVD with any standard burning software e:g Nero. I have Nero Ultra 6.6.015 & it works fine.

virtualvcr is a good capturing program. has some settings other that other programs I've tried don't have. it's freeware