peterosesbookie

I was given a challenge four months ago by a friend. I was to take 3 PAL cds, splice them, and convert them to a NTSC DVD. This had me stumped for a couple of months. For the first two months I was in awe that on one of the 700MB disc had 793 mbs of video on it - WTF, but anyway I finally did it. This was given to be since the advent of Nero 6. Nero 6 would not do a damn thing with the video at all because the dimensions of the video could not be changed do to unrecogized format (videos made in Linux). So here is what I had to do.

First things first you must have a powerful system. You have seens my specs somewhere around here.

what you need

Panasonic DVD-S35 dvd player (Plays most dvds and SVCDs including the PAL discs)
ATI all-in-wonder with atleast 64 megs of ram 8500/9000 or better (I have 8500DV)
cable to hook up to the all-in-wonder cables.
DVD Burner
Nero 6 to burn the video

First I had to hook up my dvd player to my system via the audio cables and an S-Video cable to get the best picture quality.

Next I turned on my ATi TV and set it to pick up the SVideo inputs and composite audio.

I then went to the setup tab again to the Personal Video Recorder and chose the dvd format and changed the size to 720X480 and sound to 16bit 48000HZ.

I set the video up in the dvd player and I hit record and started to play the dvd. With each disc I paused the recording so not to have big pauses between the videos.

I now had a MPEG2 file on my system that I could work with to make the dvd. Big problem now because it was too big to burn to dvd.

I was stumped for a month with the video because I could not reencode the video to a lower setting. So I needed a program to change the video to dvd format besides the video.

This is where TMPGEnc Dvd Author came into play. I setup the video took out the lost frames with it under its editing option changed the audio to PCM and this made the disc to over 6 GBS. I went to make the disc but I found that I could force the video to be made.

I now had a disc that was too big. Guess what? There is a lovely program called DVDShrink and I used it to shrink the video and bam A Recordable DVD

I used Nero to burn the disc under DVD Video.

This can be used for various videos but I am here just to provide the basic instructions to making video easy. Whether if you download the video or make it yourself here is a way crop it together with having to change to much in the video.

later

pete

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tek

Nice guide, too long for me to read, but the first two lines sound promising

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Vampyromaniac

Video encoding, done properly, is not simple. You shouldn't expect a short guide

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