MPEG2 to DVD

coisty1856 wrote on 1/7/2004, 11:22 AM

Forgive my ignorance, but I have absolutely no idea how to burn the MPEG2 video file I created in Vegas 4.0 to a DVD. I have searched everywhere to no avail and I'm afraid that it's so easy that it's right under my nose.

Like I said, I have the MPEG2 file and I'm using Nero 6 to burn the file, but Nero says I need a VOB or something other than MPEG2.

Is there a way to encode/render my Vegas file to a native format that Nero will support without having to convert anything.

I guess what I'm trying to ask is: How do I put the movie I created with Vegas onto a DVD?

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/7/2004, 11:47 AM

VOB files are a result of the DVD authoring process. So you need to author the DVD before you can burn it. Authoring is the process of adding menus and chapter points, etc. and compiling to VOB files (and others)

I’m guessing you didn’t buy Vegas4+DVD otherwise you’d be using DVD Architect to make your DVD instead of Nero 6. I believe that Nero 6 will allow you to author a DVD but I’ve never used it so I don’t know what the steps are. Look for an option to “create” a DVD instead of just “burning” one (which is the final step in the process)

Perhaps someone here who uses Nero would know the actual steps or you could try the Nero forums.

~jr

DGrob wrote on 1/7/2004, 1:20 PM

I used Nero 6 for a while before going with +DVD. Nero would insist on "trancoding" my Vegas mpeg 2 files - giving me an mpeg2 compression of an mpeg2 compression - very poor.

I wound up rendering in Vegas to *.avi files, and importing those into Nero for transcoding and burning. Worked fine. DGrob

coisty1856 wrote on 1/7/2004, 2:38 PM

DGrob, Nero won't allow me to import MPEG2 or AVI files. Are you saying that it's possible to use Nero 6 with an AVI file? As far as I know, Nero won't allow you to burn AVI files unless they've been authored to VOB (or something like that)

Thanks

riredale wrote on 1/7/2004, 8:26 PM

We're talking about two different things, I think. You can use a burning program such as Nero to burn any DATA file onto a CD or DVD blank. Such a disk can then be put into a PC and you can pull the data file off.

Creating a DVD-Video disk is an entirely different matter. As mentioned, you need an authoring program to create the special files (vob files, ifo files, bup files) that are part of the official DVD-Video standard. Some authoring programs can take plain old DV avis as their source, but other authoring programs expect you to first convert the avis into MPEG2 video (and presumably AC-3 compressed audio).

But again, you can use DVD disks to store video data files (just like CD blanks can store video, mp3, powerpoint, or any other kind of "data" file). But if you pop such a DVD disk into a DVD player, the player won't know what to do with it. That's what the DVD-video standard is for.