pilotwings
23rd June 2003, 01:16
I just got a Sony 510A combo writer and I'm extremely happy with it. However I have been having extreme difficulty actually authoring the content and compressing it. I'm taking data from multiple DV AVI video files in one project, and in another project, I'm cutting and splicing MPEG2 video from a TiVO capture. Thus far I've been using TmpGEnc to splice up the video and to encode it, but when I select 4.7gb file size (which it seems to default to), the authoring software that comes with the Sony writer (Sonic MyDVD), does not let me write the DVD because the total DVD filesize is too large. How exactly do you use TmpGENC to properly compress a DVD MPEG-2 file "system" and then burn it to create a playable DVD?
My first DVD turned out to be a bit of a mistake. The source video was 2 separate DV AVI video files downloaded from my miniDV camcorder. The Sonic MyDVD and ArcSoft Showbiz software included with the Sony bundle "seems" adequate until I actually used it. While it was able to combine the two clips together and trim off the excess starting and ending video parts, the DVD burned with some problems. When played back on the DVD player, the part of the video corresponding to the 2nd video clip has serious stutter problems along with horrible video quality, probably attributed to the interlacing of the original video. So now i'm a bit tainted from the experience of using the bundled software. In addition, the documentation claims that external encoding software is better.
So, is there an EASY way to author a DVD with my own video requiring cutting up video, concatenating video (like Adobe Premiere), building menus with Chapters on the main menu, and finally burning to DVD? Note: I can use NERO to burn a DVD compilation but it requires the IFO, VOB and other related files found in VIDEO_TS commonly? It just seems that right now I have to use about 12 different programs to frameserve, encode, extract and recompress audio, edit out frames, author to DVD format, then Shrink to fit on a DVD-R, and finally burn with NERO.
Thanks
PilotWings:(
My first DVD turned out to be a bit of a mistake. The source video was 2 separate DV AVI video files downloaded from my miniDV camcorder. The Sonic MyDVD and ArcSoft Showbiz software included with the Sony bundle "seems" adequate until I actually used it. While it was able to combine the two clips together and trim off the excess starting and ending video parts, the DVD burned with some problems. When played back on the DVD player, the part of the video corresponding to the 2nd video clip has serious stutter problems along with horrible video quality, probably attributed to the interlacing of the original video. So now i'm a bit tainted from the experience of using the bundled software. In addition, the documentation claims that external encoding software is better.
So, is there an EASY way to author a DVD with my own video requiring cutting up video, concatenating video (like Adobe Premiere), building menus with Chapters on the main menu, and finally burning to DVD? Note: I can use NERO to burn a DVD compilation but it requires the IFO, VOB and other related files found in VIDEO_TS commonly? It just seems that right now I have to use about 12 different programs to frameserve, encode, extract and recompress audio, edit out frames, author to DVD format, then Shrink to fit on a DVD-R, and finally burn with NERO.
Thanks
PilotWings:(