Best ways to convert avi files to dvd

[UTDKING]

hi,
what are the best programs to convert avi to dvd format to play back on standard dvd player

i wonder which gives the best quality pictue & sound and keeps eveerything in sync

i have avi files that was capture from my camcorder which is not digital

hope someone can help

any advice would be a bonus

[daamon]

Hi UTDKING,

DVD format is MPEG2, see the blue "DVDR" link, top left of this page for the specs.

"best" is subjective, so someone's "best" might not be someone else's. However, the popular ones I regularly see on this site are (in no particular order):

TMPGEnc
Cinema Craft Encoder
Mainconcept MPEG Encoder
Canopus Procoder

There are others...

Hope that helps.

[Phantom Of The Opera]

hi,
what are the best programs to convert avi to dvd format to play back on standard dvd player

I guess that depends on what you mean by "best". Here's what I use to get DVDs out of the video footage from my camcorder (Sony D8) :

WinDV (to transfer AVI from camcorder to computer)
VirtualDub and Panasonic DV codec (to edit the AVI if needed)
TMPGenc DVD source creator to encode AVI to MPEG2
TMPG DVD Author to author the DVD
NERO 6 to burn the DVD

All of this works fine for me, no problems, a/v sync is fine etc, so it's "best" for me becuse it's so easy to do, and costs so little. Possibly there are other combinations of tools that may yield "better" final results, I don't know; but since I'm a beginner at this sort of thing, ease of use is important to me.

[kyemeng]

In my case, using Premiere to import DV for editing. Frameserve to Tmpgenc for conversion and finally Maestro for the menu.
There are other ways you can achieve the above, eg using Pinnacle Studio 9 which is a program that is able to import DV, edit and create a menu for burning onto a DVD. Athough from what I hear Studio 9 is pretty unstable at times.