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Old 23rd December 2002 | 21:35
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Background Noise
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You might already have the capture hardware (?) - I can suck analogue footage into my PC through my TV card. You'll need some software as Capt H said but if your movies are already editted it won't need to be too fantastic, just good enough to capture. Win XP has movie editor built in. Either way you'll need to convert the captured stuff to mpg format and then Nero and Adaptec will make VCDs. Having said that, if you just want to view them on your PC, the raw mpg files will be fine. (AVIs - the format it's captured in - would work too but are very big). I think there are DVD players available now which will play mpg files.
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