OT: saving avi files on dvd

winrockpost wrote on 8/13/2004, 2:02 PM

Dumb question, I have been making DVDs with DVD architect with no problems at all. I decide to store some AVi files on DVD to save some HD space. Hmmmm, Duh, how ? What do I need ? Media player wont burn to my DVD drive. I want a client or post house to be simply able to open the avi from a DVD drive on their computer.
Yes I feel very dumb.
Thanks in advance

Comments

Jsnkc wrote on 8/13/2004, 2:10 PM

Just use whatever burning software came with your burner like Nero, easy CD creator and burn it as a data disc. You should be able to get about 18-20 minutes of AVI-DV files on a DVD-R (4.7GB)

winrockpost wrote on 8/13/2004, 2:13 PM

Tried that , didnt like the media I was using.
Kept telling me my disc was read only. But if it is that simple will try again in the morning
Thanks

Jsnkc wrote on 8/13/2004, 2:15 PM

For some burning programs you need to select wether your burning to either a CD or a DVD.

BillyBoy wrote on 8/13/2004, 3:16 PM

Instead of saving to AVI save as MPEG-2. They are smaller and if you use the DV codec they are ready as is to drop into DVD-A. There as been lots of discussion about buring using a seperate codec for the video and another for the audio. In fact Vegas supports this. But it is totally unnecessary. I've made tons of DVD's and always used the standard MPEG-2 option burning right to disk and later bring the files over to DVD without any problems at all. If you burn to a removable drive you have virtually limitless storage and the files can be dropped into DVD any time in the future and also used in most other DVD projects as-is a s well.

farss wrote on 8/13/2004, 3:23 PM

The problem with encoding the media to mpeg-2 is if you wish to do ANYTHING with it later down the track you're looking at decompressing and encoding which will not do much for quality. Burningas an AVI to a DVD means zero quality loss.
Certainly keeping it on a HD is a pretty good option except I find DVDs are easier to handle, you can label the DVD, and put it in a library case with a spine label so it's easy to find. Apart from shelf space costs are about the same.

Bob.