I wrote the DVD Burning Cookbook for the "non-video professional" who has reasonable PC skills and who wants to create a high quality DVD home movie library affordably. If you fit that definition, you need to give The Home Video DVD Burning Cookbook a try. The risk of undertaking a video editing and DVD authoring project without the DVD Burning Cookbook is HUGE. The risk of trying it is ZERO!
Your Options . . .
You basically have the following options for your home videos.
Do Nothing - some people do nothing because they don't realize that taking raw video is only half the job! The other half is to make those videos into a home movie production. What would movies like "Star Wars" or "The Matrix" be like if they were just 20 hours of raw, unedited video? What has made these great movies and great entertainment? Well, of course there is the storyline - but you have that - the story of your family or special event. It is the videography, music, special effects, and mood created by a professional movie production. Another reason people do nothing is they just don't know how to get started making a DVD home movie library. It just seems too difficult, too time consuming, and too expensive to even get started. The Home Video DVD Cookbook totally eliminates this excuse.
Do It Later - if your videos are more than a few years old, they lose a little bit of the quality each day as they age (unless they were recorded on a digital camcorder). You should at least begin the process to digitally capture your videos to preserve their current quality.
Use a service - if you use a service to convert your videos to DVD you are just putting your raw video on DVD (it is like getting that 20 hours of raw "Star Wars" thrown at you). I recently had a friend do this and he is starting over with The Home Video DVD Burning Cookbook because he wants exciting, compelling home movies, not just raw video. The other problem with a service is you have to keep paying a lot of money every time you want to put your video on DVD. This gets very expensive, very quickly.
Figure it out on your own - if you take this approach, you will quickly find out that making DVDs from your home videos is a complex and confusing process. You will spend many, many hours trying to figure it out and you are likely to make mistakes that will cost you time, money, and quality.
Use The Home Video DVD Burning Cookbook - the simple 10-step approach enables you to get started for a low investment and with confidence that you are on the right course. You basically take the risk out of your project by using a proven, high quality approach that guides you every step of the way.
Burn DVDs that delight your family and friends using low cost DVD burning software. Preserve your priceless home videos. Save money by buying only what you need. Avoid costly, time consuming mistakes. We tell you how in 10 simple steps.
The DVD Cookbook is FREE online. It is also available for a nominal charge via Paypal as a PDF file that you can print or look at while offline at your leisure.
"What a great idea and manual you've put together! What I enjoyed was your "less is more" philosophy and your willingness to take a stand and recommend specific solutions (rather than giving a universe of options). Not only are readers like me paying for your expertise, but we're paying for your "distillation" of complex information. That's what makes your Cookbook so valuable. Great job! I shall indeed share the Cookbook with my colleagues and friends."
I almost did! I realized about 5 years ago that the film and videos I had been taking for almost 20 years were going to waste. We never watched these videos. They sat in drawers and dust covered boxes throughout our house. And I knew they were slowly losing their quality. I couldn't even find the films from my wedding! It's OK, I did finally find them.
I decided I was going to put my videos on DVD, but I had no idea where to start. After searching on the internet for weeks, I was even more confused. If you search for "DVD" on Yahoo! you will get over 800 million web pages! But I was determined. So I slugged through the DVD burning process the best I could. I made plenty of mistakes and wasted a fair amount of money and time despite knowing something about computers. I'm in the software business and have two computer science degrees!.
The DVD Cookbook Makes DVD Burning Easy
One thing I am very good at is simplifying complicated things. And believe me, if there was ever an area that needed to be simplified, it is the area of video capture, video editing and DVD burning. So I created a unique electronic book that makes it easy for anyone to create a DVD home movie library that will be a family treasure for generations. The DVD Burning Cookbook boils all the complexity down to 10 simple steps.
The Advantages of the 10-Step DVD Cookbook Approach
Proceed At Your Own Pace - with whatever time you can devote, the 10-step approach moves you towards an impressive home movie library on DVD literally one step at a time. On the way, we help you digitally preserve your home videos, convert them into production home movies, and then burn DVDs of exceptional quality.
Have Fun Right Away - we get you burning DVDs quickly so your family and friends will be "buzzing" right away about how cool your DVD movies are.
Create High Quality DVDs - we help you digitize your videos at DVD quality levels and create professional looking DVD menus easily. In addition, we show you how to make even the blandest video exciting with 10 simple video editing tips.
Avoid Big, Expensive Mistakes - there are many ways to make very expensive mistakes. We make sure you avoid them. We have done the research for you, pulled it all together in one place, and sorted it out for you to make it simple. But we do more than just research, we have thoroughly tested our recommendations to be sure they really work.
Spend Small, Spend Wisely - don't spend until you need to. You can get DVD burning software, video editing software AND a great video card for about $100 that will produce high quality DVDs similar to setups costing $500 to $2000 and more. At the same time, looking for free DVD burning software that doesn't do the job will wind up costing you more.
Use Long Lasting Technologies - we keep you on long lasting technologies such as MPEG2, DV format, and DVD technology. You can be confident the steps you are taking now will last a lifetime and beyond.
Just Considering DVD Movies? Use the DVD Burning Cookbook
The Home Video DVD Burning Cookbook is ideal if you are just considering putting your home videos on DVD. With the DVD Burning Cookbook, you will be able to determine exactly what is involved, how long it will take, and what it will cost. There is no other book or website that does that. And unlike a book, we continually update the DVD Cookbook so you can continue to consider prices, new product capabilities, and new approaches.
There is Nothing Out There Like the DVD Burning Cookbook
There is an endless supply of information related to video editing available in books, reviews, product manuals and on the web. But this information typically makes things more confusing, not less. Most of it is targeted at video professionals or very technical people. Consider the following.
Books - a book on DVD technology is probably already out of date by the time it hits the shelf. Second, most books cover their topics by providing broad, high level information. What they don't provide is something that sorts through this information to tell you what you should and should not do, that deals with the details of getting it done, and that has verified that the steps recommended really work!
Reviews - reviews compare functions, how easy they are to use, and price. However, they don't tell you what functions you should use and not use, what is important and not important and how the product fits into an overall approach to go from raw video to a finished DVD home movie library.
Product Manuals - product manuals for video editing and DVD burning products provide you with an explanation of all the features, settings, and options. But product manuals don't tell you which of these options and settings you should use. They don't tell you what works well and what doesn't. They don't tell you the full set of considerations that affect your choices. And they don't tell you how to organize your project beyond a single movie or a single DVD.
The web - most information on the web relates to some narrow facet of your entire DVD project. The few sites that try to provide some guidance that I have found just don't go into sufficient detail to help you. Second, many are targeted at professionals or technical "junkies" who are willing to spend several thousands of dollars.
The Home Video DVD Burning Cookbook analyzes the information above, determines the best approach, integrates it into our 10-step approach, simplifies it, and tests it. It is all online. The PDF version gives you the same online content in over 70 pages of clear, concise advice and explanations totally focused on making your Home Video DVD Library a reality.
There are hundreds of ways to waste time and money trying to figure out video capture, editing, redering, DVD authoring and DVD burning. Do you have the right PC? Do you have the right hardware? The right software? What should you buy? When, where and for how much? What burners, DVD players and DVD media are compatible with one another? What steps should you go through to get clean video captures? What editing steps to make great movies? What troubleshooting steps do you go through when something goes wrong? The DVD Cookbook addresses all of these a much, much more (click here for more info).
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