MPEG 2

inkybme1 wrote on 5/19/2004, 1:06 PM

Hi-

I'm using ScreenBlast 3 and have finished editing my video. There are 4 parts to the project and all are .avi files. I'm trying to burn it to a DVD (using My DVD which came with the Screenblast), however it appears the project is too large to fit on a DVD. I've read about compressing the .avi files to MPEG2 (when rendering the .avi files), however when I select "make movie" and the DVD option, I can only save the file to .avi and I do not have the option to render to MPEG 2. Is this a separate component that I need to install? If so, how do I get it? Any help/advice is greatly appreciated.

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jtfrazer wrote on 5/19/2004, 3:38 PM

Hi,

When you have your video ready to render, select "Make Movie", and then choose the "Save it to your hard drive" option. When you click on "Next", you'll see a button for "Advanced Render". Click this button and you'll get several new choices for the type of output in the "Save as type" list. MPEG-2 is near the top of the list.

I don't use MyDVD enough to help you there, but I thought that it would take avi files as input and render them to MPEG-2. Perhaps someone else here can help with that part.

Jim

mbryant wrote on 5/20/2004, 3:08 AM

To make a DVD, to need to encode to MPEG-2, no matter how large or small your project is.

With Screenblast 3, you should be able to encode to MPEG as jtfrazer described. Then import this MPEG2 file into MyDVD. Alternatively, you can import the AVI file into MyDVD and have it to the encoding.

If you can't access the MPEG2 options in Screenblast, then there must be some problem with the installation of the MainConcept encoder plugin.

Be warned; MyDVD is very limited; you can't set chapter points for example.

Mark

inkybme1 wrote on 5/20/2004, 7:10 PM

Thank you both. I've followed jtgrazer's suggestion, and was able to use MPEG 2 compression. When I clicked on "Advanced Render" there were several options (one being to use a DVD template). I used the "default" option, and everything worked out well. But, I was wondering if I should have used the "DVD Template." The manual doesn't provide much information...any thoughts?

Thanks.

ADinelt wrote on 5/20/2004, 9:07 PM

Whenever I render for DVD, I use the MainConcept mpeg2 format and DVD-NTSC template and it has always worked like a charm for me.

Oh yeah, I always render to my hard drive then use DVD-Lab to create the DVD.

Al

mbryant wrote on 5/21/2004, 8:44 AM

I use the DVD NTSC template (for NTSC DVDs; I also use DVD PAL for PAL ones). I recommend using this.

“Default” seems to have an NTSC frame rate, but doesn’t indicate what the frame size is… it may be the same as DVD NTSC so it doesn’t matter… but I think it is safer to use DVD NTSC.

Mark

inkybme1 wrote on 5/24/2004, 8:17 PM

Thank you all for your suggestions.