Putting 2 VHS tapes on 1 DVD?

[Mike89]

I recently started copying my work instructional VHS tapes to DVD. I made my first one last night. Pretty cool. Using Nero's Vision Express for the capture program and Winfast TV2000XP TV Tuner card.

My question. There are some VHS tapes that are like an hour long each. I would like to put a couple of those on 1 DVD. I've never done anything like that before. Copying them both to computer is going to result in 2 .mpegs files. The program will go from the copied .mpeg file to the burn program. Dunno how to incorporate both of those .mpeg files in one burning session.

Any help appreciated. Thanks

[benbryant]

Hi Mike89,

So now you have to use a DVD author program to author your 1 hour mpeg-2 files to burn DVD. You can try the TMPGEnc DVD Author which comes with trial period. When you author DVD both of mpeg-2 files, the TDA will give you a warning about the file is too large for a single layer DVD. Just click OK or Disregard the warning (I don't remeber for sure, sorry ). Make chapters or menu. After getting done with the TDA, if the DVD file is too large for a single layer DVD, you can burn with dual layer or use DVD Shrink to shrink it down and burn with single layer DVD

Regards

[LT. Columbo]

sound advice IMO. remember to choose "open files" to find your project in dvd shrink

[Mike89]

I notice on the software options are quite a few resolutions to choose.

Is 720x480 the right one to pick for 4/3?

[benbryant]

Basically, DVD is created either with PAL or NTSC format. For example, 720x480 for NTSC with framerate of 29.97 fps and 720x576 for PAL and 25 fps. To learn more about DVD's resolutions and framerate, please check this site out:

http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/articles/dmc_understandingvcddvdformats.aspx

Regards