Friday, January 11, 2013

Transfer To DVD Using A Desktop Computer

By Dorothea Garner


Transferring your home videos to video format in order to replay them later is a relatively easy task to complete. In order to transfer to DVD a person needs to have the correct tools at hand as well as complete several easy steps. This is a great way to keep your memories alive of important functions such as graduations, celebrations and also to capture holiday videos of your recent travels.

The tools you will require include a video camera preferably with a USB port or a card reader. These two hardware products are essential in order to transfer you DVD data to your desktop computer or notebook or other mobile storage device. One would also need a video camera of course and should you not be in possession of one, they are easily hired, bought or borrowed from a friend.

For example, a four minute video can take up to one gigabyte of memory. This depends on which pixel setting you choose to use. It is because of this reason that clean DVD disks should be big enough to be able to accommodate large files. Purchased disks whether they are DVD re-writable disks or readable disks need to be formatted before data can be stored on them.

In order to accomplish this task, the disk you purchase must be inserted into the CD drive. A pop up window will appear giving you options as to which format you would like the disk to be formatted. Formatting the disk in NTFS format is advisable as this format is compatible with most software.

Once you have transferred this information you can now burn it to a clean disk of adequate size. A clean disk needs to be formatted before doing so. This means that the disk is prepared and is formatted to accept the information you are about to transfer. This can be likened to a vinyl recording where tracks or magnetic ridges were produced in so that information could be stored on them and used to play music recordings.

Once you have done this, insert an unformatted disk that you have purchased into your disk drive. A pop up window will appear asking you what you would like to do with the disk. By default your desktop computer should be set to bring up the formatting options window. Formatting a clean disk make take some time but should take no longer than five minutes. Once this has completed your computer will prompt you as to what you should do next.

Choose the formatting option you require. It is best practice to format these disks using the NTFS formatting option. This enables the disk to be used on various platforms. Should you be unsure about these terminologies and your operating system is a Microsoft Windows one, go to the help and support section and type in the words, Convert a hard disk or partition to NTFS format.

Once the file has been saved in a video folder you have created, do the transfer to DVD. You do this by selecting copy to disk or burn to disk. The disk will automatically eject from the CD drive once complete. Label the disk with a black marking pen and retain it in the sleeve that it came in order so that it remains protected from scratching and other marks.




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