"Our church makes video and audio tapes of services that are later duplicated for limited distribution. I would like to record the video to a computer for editing and produce CD's that can be used in a computer CD ROM for the video, or just played in an audio CD player for audio only. How can I do that?"

First, I'm not sure it's such a great idea to record the video directly to a computer. Computer systems are notorious for having problems at just the wrong time. Unless you can really depend on the reliability of your computer you may want to continue capturing the services on tape, and then transfer them to the computer later. It is one extra step, but the time you spend may be worth it.

Once you get the video and audio in your computer the way you want it you simply need to render it from there to a movie format you want to use for playback. Then you can export the audio file(s) separately as your audio file format of choice. Now you have a movie and one or more files on your hard drive you need to put on a CD.

There are a number of CD authoring programs that will let you burn mixed media CD's. A mixed-mode disc can have audio tracks and CD ROM tracks. Usually the CD ROM tracks occupy track #1 (from an audio CD player's point of view) and then any audio tracks meant to be played by the player start with track #2. There are, however, other formats and other ways to do it. Perhaps we can cover more of this in the future. This tip has covered the basic 'concept' of what to do. There are many different setups you can put together to achieve these results. You should talk to your Sweetwater sales engineer to iron out those specifics.