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  • Mike89
    Digital Video Enthusiast
    Digital Video Enthusiast
    • May 2005
    • 348

    Putting 2 VHS tapes on 1 DVD?

    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
    I7 920 @ 3.5 gig (ThermalRight U120E 1366 RT Heatsink), Asus P6T, 3x1024 Corsair DDR3 1600, EVGA GTX 280, NEC 90GX2, X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Pro, Lite-on IHAS4228 SATA DVD R/W, Pioneer DVR-216D SATA DVD R/W, LG GH22NS30 SATA DVD R/W, 2 WD 640 gig (32 meg cache) SATA HDDs, WD 750 gig SATA External HDD (eSata), Winfast USB2 TV Tuner, Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speaker System, Corsair TX750w PSU, HSPC Top Deck Tech Station, Windows XP Pro
  • benbryant
    Digital Video Master
    Digital Video Master
    • Aug 2005
    • 1314

    #2
    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
    Last edited by benbryant; 1 Dec 2005, 02:30 PM.

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    • LT. Columbo
      Demigod of Digital Video
      • Nov 2004
      • 10671

      #3
      sound advice IMO. remember to choose "open files" to find your project in dvd shrink
      "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
      Columbo moments...
      "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
      "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
      (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)


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      • Mike89
        Digital Video Enthusiast
        Digital Video Enthusiast
        • May 2005
        • 348

        #4
        I notice on the software options are quite a few resolutions to choose.

        Is 720x480 the right one to pick for 4/3?
        I7 920 @ 3.5 gig (ThermalRight U120E 1366 RT Heatsink), Asus P6T, 3x1024 Corsair DDR3 1600, EVGA GTX 280, NEC 90GX2, X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Pro, Lite-on IHAS4228 SATA DVD R/W, Pioneer DVR-216D SATA DVD R/W, LG GH22NS30 SATA DVD R/W, 2 WD 640 gig (32 meg cache) SATA HDDs, WD 750 gig SATA External HDD (eSata), Winfast USB2 TV Tuner, Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speaker System, Corsair TX750w PSU, HSPC Top Deck Tech Station, Windows XP Pro

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        • benbryant
          Digital Video Master
          Digital Video Master
          • Aug 2005
          • 1314

          #5
          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:

          Learn about MPEG standards, Video DVD formats, CD, VCD, SVCD and much more. Convert your videos to video file formats that can be directly burned onto VCDs, SVCDs or DVDs.


          Regards

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