Make DVD

Nel. wrote on 2/11/2005, 11:50 PM

I just installed the upgrade Movie Studio +DVD. Quite familiar with Movie studio....the more I read about DVD in the forum, the more confused I get. Forgive my ignorance... willing to learn though...
First step is I simply want to make a DVD out of my project... I used to render in .avi. no problem. Now I am totally confused with "MPEG-2 and PCM"..
When I click on Make movie, ( I don't have the window I used to in Movie studio with the description) then I click on, Burn to DVD, I understand that the video and the audio tracks are separately rendered.... do the video track becomes MPEG-2 and the audio tack becomes PCM or what I am supposed to do to make them the proper format? right now the attributes are
video1 = 720x480x24 29,970fps
audio2= 48,000, 16bit, stereo, uncompressed, is that correct?
I should be able to check the sequence with both tracks in window player?
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Then I will have to learn how to play with Architect studio....

Comments

ChristerTX wrote on 2/12/2005, 10:44 AM

There are two ways to skin this cat.

1) You can render a AVI file of your project and use that in DVDA. This means that DVDA will render to MPEG2 and split the file and burn the DVD disk.

2) You can let MS render to a MPEG2 file that you then would use in DVDA.
I always choose Save to Disk using the MPEG2 template.
Then I use DVDA and drop the MPEG file on the work surface in DVDA.

DVD A can be a bit intimidating in the beginning as you can tweak just about everything. All I want to do is to change the background and move the buttons and DVD A allows that and much more.

Just come back with questions. That's what this forum is for. The ony stupid question is the question that is not asked.

Nel. wrote on 2/13/2005, 12:12 AM

Thanks Christer TX, I rendered a AVI file and I tried to follow Athery's thread on DVD play-back is Blank in the search section.posted Jan 19 2005... to give me an idea how to import... and managed to preview the avi..... I also rendered only the audio in wav.... as per Sony TSW, back Dec 7 2004, and have these 2 files now sitting by the media preview .... and both work fine.... Now, why would I need a rendered project in .avi and an audio track rendered in .wav to make a DVD? I only need one audio track..... which one do I choose.....Cheers