Fitting my Homemade Trailers onto DVD-R

[QPhone]

That's the way the game is played. I'll go back to brainstorming.

I can't thank you enough. again very much appreciated

[2COOL]

Is there a program you can recommend that'll do this without having to burn my files onto a dvd first.

I don't use Premiere Pro but does it have a option to save it your harddrive or create a ISO? I just can't seem to believe that it would ONLY burn your output to a DVD.

[QPhone]

I don't use Premiere Pro but does it have a option to save it your harddrive or create a ISO? I just can't seem to believe that it would ONLY burn your output to a DVD.

Unfortunately no... it give you 2 options
1. export to dvd
2. export to adobe media encoder
(basically re-encoding my mpg2 to (mpg2 dvd)???? no compression but ability to save on hard drive.

haven't tried that yet but maybe hmmmm... if it's recompiling maybe hopefully it will be saved as a vob file but again this is one mutha of a file. then maybe shrink or recode can come to the rescue.

[QPhone]

I don't use Premiere Pro but does it have a option to save it your harddrive or create a ISO? I just can't seem to believe that it would ONLY burn your output to a DVD.

2Cool, I just downloaded a trial version of Sonic's MYDVD Studio 6.1. I can't believe it, in their DVD authoring they a feature that allows to burn (raw mpg's as well as .vobs) in highquality mode, standard, long play and extended play.

If you're not too sure, you can select "Fit all to DVD". It then compresses everything for you. The main menu even has default animated titles and background music. (I've eliminated the music and animated buttons 'cause it eats up DVD space) So now I have a basic DVD (plain jane) that just plays our trailers.

try in out at http://www.sonic.com/products/Consum...quicklook.aspx

[2COOL]

I'm glad you found a software to help you out. Too bad some people, me included, can't dish out some cash to buy stuff like that though.

[QPhone]

I'm glad you found a software to help you out. Too bad some people, me included, can't dish out some cash to buy stuff like that though.

I guess I'm or should I say the store that I work at is fortunate enough to have a nice owner who says just buy if you think it'll help you get the work done.

Guess he writes it off at the end of the year.

Anyhoo... thanks again 2Cool!

BTW I just realized (after banging my head trying to figure this out) that our trailer dvd player is the LG LDA 530 which plays divx, dvd+-r/rw, and get this native mpg4's. Now it's off to using the Sony Sound Forge 8, open up all 60 mpg2 files, batch encode all of them to mpg4 then... throw them all onto the dvd-r. Hopefully it'll work I'll let you know how it goes

[QPhone]

Well... Sound Forge doesn't convert to MPG4's
But I'll try DivXCreate bundle. I'm now processing 61 mpg2 files into DivX format.
Hopefully (aaaaaaargh!) this will work because our dvd player plays Divx Files.

BTW Sonic did and didn't work (glitches, made 3 dvd coasters out it)
I'm spending way too many hours at the store trying to do this!!!!

[Taelon]

I'm spending way too many hours at the store trying to do this!!!!

At least you're getting paid to experiment, I need a job like that

[QPhone]

At least you're getting paid to experiment, I need a job like that

True...True...! But my eyes are all bloodshot. Thank god that at least I'm using our new BenQ 17" LCD's FP71G+'s at 8ms response time instead of our old samsung crt's which were all fuzzy after 2 years. No matter how much you degaussed them they were still blurry.

[anonymez]

the best way to convert to mpeg-4 (i suggest xvid instead of divx, due to increased speed and better quality IMO) is to use "autogk" (AKA auto gordian knot). recommended for beginners

[QPhone]

Well folks after spending 10 hours at the store (I'm here so much that you could basically call it my second home)
I've come to the conclusion:

DivX Create Bundle was the saviour. Unfortunately in order to play divx movies, your DVD player must be divx compatible which ours is. (LG LDA 530 - we bought for only $99 at futureshop)

Time to encode 61 MPEG2 trailers on a 2GB pc2 4200 DDR 2/Intel 830D dual core 3GHZ/250MB Serial ATA/ Hewlett Packard HP pcm7170n monster of a machine was 2 hours and 45 minutes.

7 minutes to burn on Nero

In DVD format all 61 files used up 4.51 GB's on the DVD-R
In DIVX format all 61 files used up only 1.01 GB's.

So hopefully this can help anyone out there trying to figure out how to fit your owned compiled mpeg2 files onto a dvd when you have alot.

I guess it's now 9:05PM Vancouver Time I've been here since 8:30AM and my work is now complete.

Thanks all for all your comments. Have a good night!

And thank you divx for saving the day.

[anonymez]

glad it all worked out