DVD- what format

[rabbit]

I have made a DVD, captured, edited in Premiere, authored and burned. I now wish to change the audio ending and Menus.

So I recaptured, from the DVD, via my camcorder, again edited amd changed, in Premiere. Premiere used MPEG 2 and this is O.K. with DVDit which I will use to author.

My question is: what format is the recaptured DVD, previously converted to MPEG. Is it now an avi?? Or will Premiere when it exports compress the video again>

I hope someone can help as am new to this. You have no doubt gathered this fact!

Thank you

[sacajaweeda]

If you are playing a standalone DVD player thru your camcorder and transferring to the PC then you have AVI.

[rabbit]

sacajaweeda - Thank you very much for your prompt reply

[rabbit]

Help needed

I have a vcd (playable on P.C. only) which I can download onto my computer. I would like to change the audio on this vcd before recreating it. Is there anyone who can tell me how I go about this.

All the subjects on ripping appear to be about DVD conversion and do not really seem to answer this Newbies question.

Thank You

[bottle-necked]

I have made a DVD, captured, edited in Premiere, authored and burned. I now wish to change the audio ending and Menus.

So I recaptured, from the DVD, via my camcorder, again edited amd changed, in Premiere. Premiere used MPEG 2 and this is O.K. with DVDit which I will use to author.

My question is: what format is the recaptured DVD, previously converted to MPEG. Is it now an avi?? Or will Premiere when it exports compress the video again>

I hope someone can help as am new to this. You have no doubt gathered this fact!

Thank you

Ok, but first things first....

You have a DVD you created and now you want to change it. You don't capture the video off the DVD, you simply DeMultiplex (seperate the vob file into elementary streams of audio and video) then Multiplex (murge these two streams back together again) the files and you will have your original MPEG2 back. There is no loss in quality and no encoding necessary using this simple easy method. I use TMPGEnc to do this process. I do recommend you copy the VOB file to your HDD first. You can do that with Windows Explorer very easily since this DVD has no copy protection.

If you can setup your editing program correctly it should be able to 'smart render' the editied MPEG2 file without reencoding it again and possibly loosing quality.

Now the VCD? Read this simple Guide. How to rip the video from VCD CDs. It's nearly a 1 step process. Best of luck.

[rabbit]

Bottle-necked -DVD-VCD query


Thank you for your help, much appreciated.