Movies on DVD-R

vinyl wrote on 4/30/2002, 5:27 PM

I'm not sure whether this topic has been covered before - apologies if it has been. I have a large amount of Mpeg1 videos on CDR and what I'm looking for is a way to put them onto DVD-R so that I can view them on a STANDALONE DVD player. In what format do they need to be burnt onto DVDR so that I can view them? Can I do this with VV3 or do I need another piece of software to convert them to DVD format? I have looked at the format of a professional DVD (ie the types of files they hold) and they do not bear any resemblence to MPEG1 or MPEG2

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vonhosen wrote on 4/30/2002, 5:46 PM

You can't burn them to DVD-R from Vegas.
You can make DVD compliant MPEG-2 files in Vegas & export them to an authoring program like DVDit (Sonic Solutions (not Foundry)) but I'm not sure what your quality is going to end up like re-encoding already compressed files. Have you got the original film footage available as well ?
I would imagine if you are going to use DVD you would want to be increasing your resolution from the restraints of MPEG-1 and that won't look good.
You can burn MPEG-1 resolutions to DVD with DVDit but you must not use interlaced video & you must have progressive sequencing turned on.

Check out www.vcdhelp.com
& see whether the standalone players you are thinking of using are supporting what you want to do.