DVDA and standalone dvd recorder help....

ronniemac wrote on 9/28/2003, 9:39 PM

Here is my situation. I am transferring some of our home videos from vhs to dvd using a Panasonic e80 dvd recorder. I then rip them to my hard drive. What I want to do is bring them into DVDA and create menu's, chapters, etc and burn them on my computer's dvd recorder so they will play in any dvd player. Does anyone do this sort of thing and have any information on a nice quick way to do this so the files are compatible with DVDA. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Ron

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arlinblair wrote on 10/24/2003, 10:37 PM

Play them from your DVD player into Vegas, put in your Markers, render as a new project, pull into DVD-A, do your menus, burn.
sounds all too easy but works, just time consuming.
I did a 50th wedding anniversary recently that I played a silent photo-slideshow of the couple and their children. The only way I could get the silent slideshow into the project was to play/capture it into Vegas 4.0 as part of the new project showing the anniversary get-together. Worked out nicely and it gave me a chance to put it at the tail end of the project with a music bed this time instead of just silence.

farss wrote on 10/26/2003, 12:39 AM

I'd suggest a much better approach is to bypas the STB DVD recorder.
They've got their place in the scheme of things but not as part of a proper DVD authoring process.

Instead capture the original footage into VV, edit it, add chapters and whatever and then encode. You've then got the chance to use decent mpeg2 encoders, flexibility of how your videos look etc. Plus you can use ac3 audio to fit more onto the DVD or use a higher bitrate for better quality video on the DVD.

Ronomy wrote on 10/26/2003, 5:12 PM

Ron,

I currently do this with my Pioneer DVR-7000. Are you recording in the VR format? You say you already have rip the files to your pc. So you are asking how to put the files in program stream format for DVDA to use?? If they are in VR format you will need to convert them to a VOB file format. I use integrator for this. http://www.authoringware.com It is a VRO to VOB converter. You will have a problem if the audio is AC3. You will need to convert it back to a WAV file format and the only way to do that is strip out the elementary audio stream and use Besweet or HeadAC3he to convert the audio. That's if you want to use Vegas to edit. If you don't need to edit then AC3 will be fine. Once you convert to VOB using integrator, change the file extension to m2p. Then Vegas and DVDA will read it. If they are already VOB then use integrator to combine the VOB files into one file. Then change the extension. There are other ways and free programs out there to combine VOB if you don't want to spend the money on integrator. Hope this helps!

Ron