6 episodes to 1 dvd-r

[gemmell]

Could somebody please point me in the right direction for a tutorial on how to put a series on one dvd? I could do it by joining them all together but i want to be able to choose which episode i watch and i have never done chapters or menus before.

Thank you

[gNOMEintheRedHat]

What DVD authoring software are you using?

DVD Movie Factory adds a menu button for each video file you add.
you can create a sub-menu for each episode or just place chapter marks in them for quick jumping.

Most DVD authoring applications I've used do this fairly easily....

yes my spelling sux today, get over it....

gNOME...

[jaxxboss]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/172123.php

[gemmell]

Thanks for your quick responses and who give a shyte about spelling!! lol

i have been using tmpgenc dvd authoring, but i wasn't sure that tutorial explained what i wanted to do, sorry to sound stupid but i've only had my dvd writer for a week or so.

i think i will have a look at dvd movie factory and see what happens.

Cheers

[jaxxboss]

WEE OLL SPEL GUD INN HEAR.
DVD author is rather simple in that you just add your files one at a time. edit them if you want. If you wanna cut out a commercial for example, just go to edit, start where u want, go to where u wanna end before the commercial starts, then back to ADD file, add the SAME file, start where the commercial ends then scroll to where you want it to end . if you have like 4 commercials in a one hour program, then keep adding the same file cutting where you left off last time.

Everyone gets use to a certain program and tend to recommend that one. Learning a new proggy is frustrating in the beginning always. I myself hated vegas and dvd lab, mainly because i know dvd author better and probably didnt try as hard to learn those others as my brain knew that i really didnt have to learn these because i already have dvd author down pat. :P

[spiderman2k1]

Are you capturing then capture MPEG 2 NTSC 352*480 DVD or PAL 352*576 at 2600 CBR should do it or VBR for even more space or try 720*480 res some channel's you have to test to see what work's best PPV i find 728480 but sci-fi show 352*480. If you backing up DVD's like Star Trek or Babylon 5 use IC8 for full disc back up's.

[noki]

TMPGENcn DVD Author is a great and easy tool to accomplish your tasks. just that it costs $$ try it free for 30 days and see if it is worth it.

[gemmell]

Thanks, it is the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy (BBC so no commercials), they are all avi files, PAL and at the same resolution. I can manage to convert them to dvd mpg, but i was worried that it would be too complicated with the menus for a beginner, (i'm not bothered about chapters)

It looks like it should be straight forward enough, but keep your ears open for my screaming for help.......

Again, many thanks for all the advice

[Gazorgan]

1) Rip originals to HD
2) Open rip in DVDShrink
3) Hit Re-author mode
4) Drag over titles until you have what you want. Open again if your disk spanning.
5) if you cramming (3-4 hours worth), do deep analysis
6) Backup and burn

I can make ep disks in about 30 minutes including burning

EDIT: Doh, you said AVI as I posted. Above method is valid only if you have the DVD.

[noki]

Gazorgan
plus he wanted menus will your method with dvd sources produce functional menus and/or chapter points

[noki]

gemmell
sorry i did not know you already have TMPGENc Author...skipped reading your second post. since your have the mpg files in place menus/chapters are easy.
1.open new project.
2.for each episode create a new TRACK located on the lest side of the GUI.
3.choose your background, styles. etc.
4.click create menu (you can also config Author to produce chapters too).
5.select the thumbnail you want with slider, set motion time if you want, background music if you want, etc.
6.do chapters if you want.
7.run
8.Author might warn you output is be too large but ignore. if resultant files are indeed too large (>4464 or so) open files in DVDShrink and compress.
9.burn.

hope this helps.

[gemmell]

ok thanks all,
i have managed to do several different series discs and all but the first (hitchhikers guide) are perfect. The first was out of sync on all episodes for some reason.
Instead of using dvdshrink , when encoding to dvd mpg in tmpgenc i set the size of disk to 15%. Am i losing anything this way or is it acceptable practice?
Not sure about the sync but thats something else i need to learn about