Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Burn video from JVC GZ-MS230 Camcorder to DVD for backup

"I just bought a gz-ms230 camcorder. I would like to burn the video from JVC GZ-MG230 camcorder. Any suggestions?"-from Yahoo Answers. Generally speaking, Windows DVD Maker(for Windows OS) or iDVD (on Mac) are the two popular DVD creation programs.

Let's have some background information about the supported file types by Windows DVD Maker or iDVD.

File types & Discs Supported by Windows DVD Maker:

Video files: '.asf', '.avi', '.dvr-ms', '.m1v', '.mp2', '.mp2v', '.mpe', '.mpeg', '.mpg', '.mpv2', '.wm', and '.wmv'.

Audio files: '.aif', '.aifc', '.aiff', '.asf', '.au', '.mp2', '.mp3', '.mpa', '.snd', '.wav', and '.wma'.

Picture files: '.bmp', '.dib', '.emf', '.gif', '.jfif', '.jpe', '.jpeg', '.jpg', '.png', '.tif', '.tiff', and '.wmf'.

Disc formats: DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-ROM as long as your DVD Writer unit supports them.

Tips: Start with DVD menu, so that you can choose what file to be played first. Then, if you have a HDTV select the 16:9 aspect ratio, if not, keep the 4:3 ratio. The video format depends on the country you live in, for example North American countries use the NTSC format and the European countries use the PAL format. If you don't have the Windows DVD Maker on your PC, please click here to download it. http://www.windows-dvd-maker.com/



iDVD supported multimedia file formats:
1. Most video or image files supported by QuickTime (see the list of unsupported QuickTime formats below)
2. 16:9 widescreen formats
3. Audio file formats: AAC, MP3, and AIFF audio files
4. Any format from iMovie: DV, high-definition video (HDV), MPEG-2 SD, MPEG-2 SD, MPEG-4 SD, MPEG-4 HD, and AVCHD

Unsupported QT formats: QuickTime VR, MPEG-1 or MPEG-2, Flash, streaming or encrypted movies, or QuickTime spanned movies. You can’t add MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files to an iDVD project because they don’t contain standard video tracks.

(Resource from http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6655.html)



Now, look back the recorded video format from the JVC gz-ms230 camcorder, it shoots MPEG-2 file format supported by Window DVD Maker and MPEG-2 SD file format can be also accepted by iDVD.

More tips: If you have some other kinds of video file format can't be imported into Windows DVD Maker, try this Windows DVD Maker Video Converter, which enables you to convert almost any video to Windows DVD Maker acceptable file formats. Mac video to iDVD converter should be a powerful helper for Mac users for it makes it easy to DVD creation, as long as you convert video to iDVD supported file format.

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