Can someone give me a hand????

[Ausar]

OKay guys and girls, I have a few questions. I use DVDMaestro, TMPEnc Plus, Shrink, Decrypter, IMGTools, and a few other necessaries.

My 1st. ? --- I have lots of Martial Arts clips that I have gotten from a freind. They ae in multiple formats ranging from .mov, .mpg, .wmv, .avi, divx, xvid, etc. (BTW, I have no idea how to check which format a clip is unitl I play it and it reads across realone's media bar. Is there a program that would tell me what filetype they are before I play them) I would like to burn all these to DVD mpeg 2 format nd link them together so that they all play continunously (The average clip is o more than 2-3 minutes with the biggest being about 9 mins. About 35 clips in all) on my DVD-R. Here is the ? What is the first step to prepare these files for Maestro? Should I demux 1st, then run them through TMPGEnc Plus, Then Maestro? I am having a little difficulty when importing the output file from TMPGenc into Maestro. I keep getting an invalid resolution setting error. Is it because I didn't demux the video and audio 1st? Is it because the original clip's resolution (320x???) is not compatible or that I didn't tell TMPGEnc to change it? I have been looking through 20 pages of links from a search on demux and concersion in this forum for the last few days with no clear answer to my question. Please forgive me if this has been asked before as I am not trying to give the forum stretch marks by posting the same questions over and over. Any advice is GREATLY appreciated.

BTW- This ite is unbelievably helpful and awesome!

[Ausar]

Also, how do I demux with TMPGenc plus? Can anyone recommend a template to me?

[sacajaweeda]

Load them all into VirtualDub individually and save them to a new AVI using the same compression for all of them. Save the audio streams as WAV and convert them to either MP2 or AC3, then join all your clips and frameserve to your encoder. You need to find a common frame size and rate. Sounds like your're going to have some fun.

[Ausar]

Will the resulting files from VDub be dumexed and ready for DVDMaestro? Or am I missing a step? Thanx in advance.

[sacajaweeda]

The files VDub will generate for you will be an audio video interleaved (AVI) file and a WAV file. Both need to be encoded to DVD-compliant MPEG2 streams with another application before you get to the authoring phase.

[jaxxboss]

Once you have them all saved as avi and wav, load in tmpgePLUS and encode it to mpeg 2 dvd files, then you can author with your choice, I use dvd author, lets you encode with ac3 if you have the plug in. U can then burn with it also if u want.

[bottle-necked]

My 1st. ? --- I have lots of Martial Arts clips that I have gotten from a freind. They ae in multiple formats ranging from .mov, .mpg, .wmv, .avi, divx, xvid, etc. (BTW, I have no idea how to check which format a clip is unitl I play it and it reads across realone's media bar. Is there a program that would tell me what filetype they are before I play them)

AVIcodec and/or GSpot

Here is the ? What is the first step to prepare these files for Maestro? Should I demux 1st, then run them through TMPGEnc Plus, Then Maestro? I am having a little difficulty when importing the output file from TMPGenc into Maestro. I keep getting an invalid resolution setting error. Is it because I didn't demux the video and audio 1st? Is it because the original clip's resolution (320x???) is not compatible or that I didn't tell TMPGEnc to change it?

Probably just the wrong format. Use "Load" DVD Template in TMPGEnc. I would not demux unless that is necessary for Maestro. Just another step that may be unnecessary. I don't know. I would load the template and run all that would through one at a time. Any that won't load I would try to frameserve them from VirtualDub.

I have been looking through 20 pages of links from a search on demux and concersion in this forum for the last few days with no clear answer to my question. Please forgive me if this has been asked before as I am not trying to give the forum stretch marks by posting the same questions over and over. Any advice is GREATLY appreciated

If you want to demux with TMPGEnc click "File" "Mpeg Tools" "Demultiplex" "Browse" "File by Type *.*" "double click mpeg file" "double click stream(s) to extract" done.

I'm not familiar with Maestro but to 'splice' those files together so they play one after the other you would probably just add them to the same track. ie. Treat them as chapters. Or once converted you could use TMPGEnc cut/merge command if you like to splice them together into one big file.

Good luck.

[Ausar]

Thanx a million for your replies and help!! I greatly appreciate it!