Jerethi
8th June 2002, 22:16
Hey, folks.
I've thought and thought about this and I'm honeslty not sure where else to turn... so I'm just gonna go ahead and post a fairly off-topic question here, that I'm willing to bet SOMEONE might know the answer to...
So here goes!
A friend of mine has just made a movie in MGI VideoWave. It's approx 1 hr and 20 minutes. Now comes the building process. We're hoping to build the movie, and burn it to a DVD using a program called My DVD (I'm afraid I don't have much more information on the DVD burning program) In any event here comes the kicker -- WHAT FORMAT and WHAT RESOLUTION should we build to? I'm thinking we should build to AVI uncompressed rather than mpeg2, that way there's no loss in quality (presumabaly, My DVD compressed the videostream to mpeg-2 first and then burns the dvd, but I'm not sure) Apparently though, after the loooong building process, windows (XP) cannot recognize the avi uncompressed file. I'm at a loss -- sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. It's too long of a movie to trial and error with really...
So I guess my quesiton is... how exactly should we output this rather large file? We've also dealt with audio and video separately (i.e. we've edited the soundtrack into a wave file using Cool edit and we're going to mux the video and audio together later, so presumably we want a video file without any audio, but avi uncompressed is the only format that allows us to build without audio...) Also, what frame rate is appropriate? I know most DVD's are at 24 fps, so should we also build to 24, or should we just use 29? So confused!
Man that's a lot of crap.... well, there it is... what do we do now? Hopefully... someone can shed some light on this matter. Thanks in advance for any help!:confused:
I've thought and thought about this and I'm honeslty not sure where else to turn... so I'm just gonna go ahead and post a fairly off-topic question here, that I'm willing to bet SOMEONE might know the answer to...
So here goes!
A friend of mine has just made a movie in MGI VideoWave. It's approx 1 hr and 20 minutes. Now comes the building process. We're hoping to build the movie, and burn it to a DVD using a program called My DVD (I'm afraid I don't have much more information on the DVD burning program) In any event here comes the kicker -- WHAT FORMAT and WHAT RESOLUTION should we build to? I'm thinking we should build to AVI uncompressed rather than mpeg2, that way there's no loss in quality (presumabaly, My DVD compressed the videostream to mpeg-2 first and then burns the dvd, but I'm not sure) Apparently though, after the loooong building process, windows (XP) cannot recognize the avi uncompressed file. I'm at a loss -- sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. It's too long of a movie to trial and error with really...
So I guess my quesiton is... how exactly should we output this rather large file? We've also dealt with audio and video separately (i.e. we've edited the soundtrack into a wave file using Cool edit and we're going to mux the video and audio together later, so presumably we want a video file without any audio, but avi uncompressed is the only format that allows us to build without audio...) Also, what frame rate is appropriate? I know most DVD's are at 24 fps, so should we also build to 24, or should we just use 29? So confused!
Man that's a lot of crap.... well, there it is... what do we do now? Hopefully... someone can shed some light on this matter. Thanks in advance for any help!:confused: