Making DVD

Steamboat wrote on 9/7/2004, 1:32 PM
Ok I am coming from Studio. Over there the advice (in order to minimize problems) was to use AVI as the stock video clips to make your movie, add menu's etc. Then have Studio Render to disk as DVD content. Then you used a third party like Nero to actually burn the DVD. With this in mind all my video clips are in AVI.

From reading the manual and the boards it seems for Movie Studio (just got it today) that the best way to work is to assemble your movie and save to disk as MPEG2. Then launch DVD Architecture to assemble video clips, set chapters and menus and then burn the DVD. Is this the most efficient way to do this?Are there any problems with MPEG2 (Studio had some issues using MPEG2 content) when assembling the movie? Loss in quality?

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ChristerTX wrote on 9/7/2004, 3:07 PM
What you would do is to render to MPEG2 in Movie Studio when you are done with the project. The input to your project should be uncompressed AVI if possible.

The MPEG2 file is used by your DVD Authoring program. That program would not need to re-render the file.
Movie Studio have an excellent MPEG2 encoder.

Christer