Conversion to DVD from an AVI

[mbavb]

I got some AVI Files of a new child birth tutorial for parents and thinking of converting to DVD-R but they are AVi and some aspect ratio. If I can make it into a DVDR instead of a VCD while mantaining the quality.... In TMPGENc.. How do I convert this AVI file.. in the settings What Aspect ratio settings.. as in TMPGENc it shows only 704 x 480... can this be changed to some custom settings..what other settings in the Video portion needs to be changed there is a DC_Component Portion of 8, 9, 10 bits...help ? Is there a tutorial out there. Sorry newbie

[Arky]

Originally posted by mbavb
I got some AVI Files of a new child birth tutorial for parents and thinking of converting to DVD-R but they are AVi and some aspect ratio. If I can make it into a DVDR instead of a VCD while mantaining the quality.... In TMPGENc.. How do I convert this AVI file.. in the settings What Aspect ratio settings.. as in TMPGENc it shows only 704 x 480... can this be changed to some custom settings..what other settings in the Video portion needs to be changed there is a DC_Component Portion of 8, 9, 10 bits...help ? Is there a tutorial out there. Sorry newbie


When you have loaded a template in TMPGEnc (or have used the wizard) you can still alter the settings but you may need to open the "unlock" template which you will find in a sub-folder within the template folder. This will keep the settings from the previously-opened template, but will allow you to edit those settings manually. TMPGenc is an excellent resizer of video, so you may choose any DVD compliant resolution you like, provided it is suitable for your video standard (i.e. is it PAL or NTSC).

It is critically important for you to firstly establish what framesize and video standard your source files are. Otherwise, you are wasting your time discussing TMPGEnc settings. Were your files captured via firewire from a DV-Cam, for example? When you have established these details, please post them here and forum members can make more specific recommendations for you.

Regarding the DC-component (Discrete Cosine) precision settings, don't be concerned about these, they are not critically important for general encoding. I favour a setting of 10 for most of my jobs, but whichever you choose, you will get a great result.


Arky ;o)