simple way to prepare for DVD shrink

[kisrum]

I recorded a good quality analog widescreen version of a favorite movie off of TCM onto my hard drive, and would like to put it on to DVD. The resultant mpg's are about 5.8 GB. I'm thinking, no problem, I'll just use DVD Shrink like everyone else, all I need to do is burn the DVD image to my hard drive, right?

Well the Roxio which came with my NEC burner refuses to image anything larger than one DVD's worth of movie to the hard drive, even though its not going directly to the DVD. It tells me to remove part of the movie.

The Studio 8 which came with my ATI 9000 AIW video card has about a 15 second A/V out-of-sync problem by the end of the two hour movie. No surprise there.

The Ulead free trial seems okay until I try to make a (simple) menu, then it introduces all sorts of stuttering into the playback, although I haven't actually tried burn the movie yet, so I can't say for sure that its going to be a problem.

I'd welcome any opinions on what to try next. I guess I can just forget the menu and try Ulead. I've read a guide on splitting the audio off to goldwave and having it encode separately but I'm sort of afraid of screwing it up.

Thanks.

[hudsonf]

How did you capture? When I capture with my ATI AIW Card I capture directly to mpeg 2 using the settings on lordsmurfs home page. then I use Womble mpeg-vcr to cut out everything I don't want to keep. Next I author my mpeg file with TMPGEnc DVD Author. If the file is to big I still author it with DVD Author then I shrink it with DVDShrink. DVD Author and mpeg-vcr are paid programs but they do a great job . There's probably free ways to do this but I'm very happy with the results of these programs.

[kisrum]

I captured it as mpeg-2. Yeah, I figure its time to actually spend some money and get TMPGEnc DVD Author. No commercials on this capture to cut out, but I'll check out mpeg-vcr.

Thanks.

[Rookie64]

I recommend that you check out Lord Smurf's capture guides on his site and compare your capture settings.
You can get very good results with the settings Lord Smurf uses, and avoid having to shink your capture

www.lordsmurf.com/

Here is basic guide for DVD Shrink -
http://dvdshrink.info/reauthor_basic.php


You have the option of shrinking (which may reduce picture quality even though it won't be that noticable)
or you can keep your original quality and use DVD Shrink to split the file at any chapter mark you'd like, and continue the second part on another disc.


Edited for my typos

[kisrum]

You can get very good results with the settings Lord Smurf uses, and avoid having to shink your capture

Well that would've been cool. I'll try it next time. I've been to the site but didn't bother to read/understand that one. Thanks.