Home video to DVD?

[joker_927]

How in the world do I do this?

Use Nero?

Use Windows XP?

I have the videos in AVI and MPG format.

[Martoch]

Ask Phenious...he does plenty of that sort of thing. Maybe PM him with the URL to this thread.

[Siliconjunkie]

I would use something like Pinnacle Studio or similar. Basically you import your video files and them author them to DVD.

[eagle1]

You can check the DVD tutorials he posted on the news section like a week ago and see if that helps you out (it's about backing up dvds but it has a ton of useful info).

[joker_927]

I did read all 3 parts, and while it does a great job of telling you how to backup a DVD it doesn't tell you how to make your own.

I would think nero would have a drag and drop burning process for making a DVD like it does for makinga VCD.

[puk]

avi to dvd guide #1
avi to dvd guide #2 (don't forget to check Burning pre-authored DVD-Video using Nero )

hth
puk

[joker_927]

thx!!

[phenious]

There are a lot of great guides on doom9.net for that sort of thing. I plan to make a few more DVD articles that would answer your question but moving has really slowed me down on a lot of things that I want to do. I would recomend what SJ said with Pinnacle Studio or some program that will allow you to build a DVD menu. Other programs I know of are Ulead DVD Factory Studio, and Adobe Encore DVD. There are others but these are the ones I have used and found fairly easy to work with.

-: phenious :-

[joker_927]

I don't understand how ANYONE is uspposed to be able to make DVD when software to make them can cost anywhere from $500 to $40,000.

YIKES!

[joker_927]

Geez, well I guess if I actually installed the programs that came with the burner....

My dvd burner came with about 6 different programs that seems like they can do everything you could possibly imagine when it comes to making your own VCD or DVD. It's all "Sonic" programs. I guess every company just sends out their own cheapo programs to get the job done.

Haven't burned any DVD's yet, but it seems easy enough.

Well at least I learned a whole lot playing with TMPGEnc and VirtualDUB and AC3machine. Took me the whole day to finally get one pair of ac3/mpeg-II files for a video.