Camcorda to DVD

[SONY007]

What it is i've got a Digital Video Camcorda MV200 and i've got two tapes of my mates having races in their Beatles at some race course. Now I thought transfering it from tape to my h/d then converting it to dvd format would be a breeze but i'm on my fourth day trying now after trying multiple programs and all that keeps on happening is my system keeps restarting when it get 5min in the conversion. I've tried Ulead dvd workshop, MainConcept MPEG Encoder & TMPGEnc they all make my pc restart after 5min.


My SPECS ARE : AMD Athlon Barton XP3200+ 400FSB (Socket A)
80 GIG H/D
Graphics Card is about 1yr & 3 month old, the latest one out
at the time I think (NVIDIA nforce)
512 Consair ram
Windows xp


I've got like eight video files on the h/d from the camcorda three of them are 3.99 gig the others around 500mb and thats meant to be just 1hr 17min of film, that was from using dvd workshop in capture mode. The size of it all when on the h/d is just over 18gigs why so big I which I knew, but I've some how got to get these files which are...hmm it just says 'video clip' when I try to see what format there are, got to got the all to fit a a dvd-r or I guess do it all again if what i've done is wrong.

[jggimi]

...i've got a Digital Video Camcorda MV200...That's a DV camcorder. I'll move the thread to the DV forum for you....my system keeps restarting when it get 5min in the conversion. I've tried Ulead dvd workshop, MainConcept MPEG Encoder & TMPGEnc they all make my pc restart after 5min.That's a symptom of hardware instability, often caused by heat. Are you running motherboard monitoring software that tracks temperature under the CPU, and elsewhere on the board? If you are overclocking your XP3200+, then set it back to factory defaults. Add additional cooling
Remove the cover...why so big I which I knew...DV is approximately 216 MB/minute. You'll find the FAQ and the other stickies in the DV forum helpful.

And, please be more careful with your speling and wording. Clarity is important, as a large portion of our members have English as a second language.