divx file straight into Ulead dvd movie?

[nille]

Hi!

Sorry about all my newbie questions , but what can I do?

I added a divx file straight into Ulead DVD movie factory, without extracting audio or doing anything with the file beforehand.
The result was quite good.

Is this a good and simple way of making a dvd or are there ways will which render a much better result?

Nille

[bunyip]

There is nothing wrong with plugging your AVI straight into MF and processing it - that's what the product was designed to do.

If you're happy with the results and your AVI doesn't need any 'touching-up' or filtering then continue this way.

However, while the video renderer that is bundled with MF is adequate there are others that produce a much superior MPEG quality, and provide features such as multi-pass encoding which handles fast-motion segments better.

You just need to make a decision for each video, to just run it through MF or to give it special attention using external tools.

[tim6661234]

The only problem is that on some avi's the audio will go out of sync. I'd test the resulting files before writing them to DVD

[nille]

I'm afraid this is what happended, the audio went out of sync.
It seemed very good at the beginning, but then i noticed the sync problem?

Wouldn't this have happened if I had encoded the file in another way?

Nille

[tim6661234]

I always prepare my MPEGs first then use the authoring software to create the DVDs with menus.

I've used many different ways.

1. Use TMPEnc to create the Video and audio (seperately). Feed these into the authoring s/w if it supports having seperate file rather than a single MPEG file if not multiplex the streams together. Check the results.

2. If they are out of sync extract the audio to wave using VirtualDub and encode that using TMPEnc or feed it straight into your authering s/w.

etc
The duration of the files is usually different (due to variable bit rate MP2 audio I think)


At least if you create seperate video and audio files then as long as the video is correct you don't have to spend hours encoding to find out it out of sync.

[nille]

Thanks for your tips.

I've also tried to extract the audio file using Virtual dub and then I've loaded the two files separately into TMPGenc which has encoded them to a DVD mpeg file.
The video is very good quality, but the audio is too metallic.
Any suggestion what can be done about it?

Nille

[Baldrick]

You can use toolame as audio encoder in tmpgenc, www.dvdrhelp.com/tmpgenc#toolame

and if you are doing any frequency converting(44 khz to 48 khz) then be sure to select high quality in tmpgenc under options->enviromentalsettins->audio engine.

[p_l]

Use SSRC as your external frequency convertor in .

Edit: Oh, Baldrick beat me to it. His suggestion must be for a more recent version of TMPGEnc, since I don't see that option in the 2.58 version I'm using. So obviously go with his suggestion if you have that option, but if you don't have it you can always try mine. Works great.

[nille]

Thanks for enlightening a newbie.

If I use SSRc or Toolame in TMPGenc, does that mean I won't have to extract the audio first in Virtual dub?

Nille

[p_l]

Part of SSRC's automated process is to create a temporary .wav file, so in most cases I don't find it necessary.