AVI to DVD

Simmer wrote on 4/26/2002, 3:01 PM

I've read several messages about how to put my video onto DVD but I'm still not
quite clear I guess.

Would someone be able to provide steps for newbees like me (using SonicFoundary's
VideoFactory since this is what I have).

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This is how I understand it so far.

(Using SonicFoundary VideoFactory)
1) Capture video using DV-NTSC (I'm in the US).
2) Edit video until desired result is acheived.
3) "Make Movie" to a DV-NTSC AVI.

I believe I have it up to this point but now it gets fuzzy.

Do I do something like...
1) Convert (somehow) the DV-NTSC AVI created above to MPEG-2 suitable for DVD.
2) Using some DVD authoring tool (some have suggested Ulead's DVDMovie Factory,
others I've seen are Dazzle's DVD-Complete) I then burn a DVD (DVD-R in my
case).

Am I on the right track?
Any suggestions?

(Thanks so much everyone on the help/suggestions provided so far in my quest
for video editing satisfaction).

Thanks all :-)

-Mike

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 4/28/2002, 10:12 AM

(Using SonicFoundary VideoFactory)
1) Capture video using DV-NTSC (I'm in the US).
2) Edit video until desired result is acheived.
3) "Make Movie" to a DV-NTSC AVI.

No, you need to Make Movie using "MainConcept MPEG-2" under Format, and "DVD NTSC" for template (or "DVD PAL" if you live in Europe). You will need to pay a small one-time fee to use the MPEG-2 encoder.

If you don't want to use the VF MPEG-2 encoder, you can encode with a freeware tool. TMPGEnc (sometimes simply called TMPG) is a great encoder. If you go this route, your three step approach that I copied at the top of this message is in fact the correct set of steps, and you then take the AVI file as input to TMPGEnc and Load the DVD NTSC template that comes with TMPGEnc. This will create an MPEG-2 file which you then load into your DVD authoring program to actually make the DVD.

John