VIDEO to DVD HELP!

[Mike AA]

Also depending on your idea of what you're doing with the disk. If your video is already fit onto a CD you should be able to simply make a VCD (Video CD) which will play on nearly any DVD player. By converting it to DVD video (MPG4) you may actually lose quality. I would more say burn your video to a CD-R then if your CD burning software has it, create a VCD. This shouldn't take more than an hour and you already have all you would need. No need for DVD disk or converting to other file formats.

-Mike

[Freddy Schurr]

If anyone has WMM, anyone know how I can make a DVD.

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Freddy Schurr

If anyone has WMM, anyone know how I can make a DVD.

Everyone has WMM. I never even touch it. Its such a horrible program, You have no control over what your product is going to look like. Its so poorly written it always crashes. My suggestion download Power producer gold and you can burn DVDs that way. At least that program is somewhat good enough to give you a few choices in menu screens.

I've learned that you only want to burn DVDs with a DVD burning program. The other programs that can let you burn DVDs always end up with errors. Hence why WMM is such a horrible program.

Originally Posted by Freddy Schurr

If anyone has WMM, anyone know how I can make a DVD.

I have WMM and could not figure it out, certainly not fast enough, I ended up making a DVD for a member of 229 who asked for it at GTR in Mississauga and ended up doing it the hard way....crash record into a DVD -R recorder at the TV station I do work for, all looked good and played back fine......until I realied a week later that I forgot to finalize the DVD! Oh did I ever feel stupid! I made another DVD and finalized it.

Yes, I work 12 hours a day shooting news video and I don't know how to make a DVD.

but saving from WMM to DVD....never could see that option to I switched to "emergency mode"

mark

[David55]

I agree with what has been said about Encore...

When I tried to make my first DVD for my middle school graduation video, I spend days and days learning that program. It took me about two weeks to produce the whole DVD, including photoshoped menus, background videos, chapters etc. It is really not a good idea for just getting a video onto a DVD.

And WMM...I remember I used to do some pretty cool movies with it. Since I moved to Premiere, I get frustrated just by looking at that program. It is a real torture trying to edit a video with it (no jog wheel and layers is the most frustrating part about it).

[DonRotolo]

OK, all:

I have a copy of Pinnacle Studio 8 (2 versions old), and after editing down the video I used the "make a disk" option. It happily burned the DVD-R but of the three DVD players in the house none will play it. They all "try" to load/read the disk, but none are successful -they just sit there, 'loading...'

From the experts out there: What kind of file is a regular ordinary DVD supposed to be? I saw .AVI mentioned.

BTW, the disk created plays just fine in a computer, but using Windoze media player...

(and for some reason my DVD+/-RW drive won't recognize the HP CD-R media I have as blank, so i can't make a VCD...)

Don

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

OK, all:


From the experts out there: What kind of file is a regular ordinary DVD supposed to be? I saw .AVI mentioned.

Alright here it goes. The video must be burned at a 720X480 format with the NTSC-DV .avi format. I know this debate about using adobe encore DVD has been going on for a long time but i still stress using it. All of my DVDs that I burn have no flaws in them and can play in any DVD player. Yes it took me some time to figure things out but within a day I could easily burn one DVD with the preset background. Now I can make DVD menu backgrounds in a snap after using it a little while.

If you are still think adobe Encore DVD is to complicated You may also want to try Power producer gold. I've only had a couple problems with that program. (I likes to freeze once in a while) That program will also spit out DVDs that will play in any DVD player.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

Now I can make DVD menu backgrounds in a snap.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Is it essential that a menu structure is defined, or can you just drop the file onto a DVD and it'll play? Or?

Don