DVD Studio Pro 3 and DivX movie

[sledgehammer]

How can I make a DVD with DVDStudioPro3 from a DivX movie? Has anyone for example written a tutorial for that?

[terryj]

all I can say is in my few attempts of doing so:
One, make sure you have all up to date codecs
of divx (v.5.2) and 3ivxd4.51 installed in your QT
Plugins folder.

Two, get the DIVX movie over to QT movie format,
with QT spec audio.

Third, take the QT movie, and run through Compressor 1.2

Four, author as you would normally in DVDSP3.

[sledgehammer]

I used the DivxDoctor and made a .mov out of the avi file. Now I'm running it through the Compressor 1.2 with "MPEG-1 DVD" preset.

I know it would have been wise to run it with mpeg2 decoder, but all the "MPEG-2" presets have a time "limit" and the movie is over 2 hours (for example the longest mpeg-2 preset is "MPEG-2 120min...)

Is this going to have a happy ending? Should I use the MPEG-2 presets instead?

[TugBoat]

Well, the MPEG1 will be much smaller in size, and lousier in quality, than the MPEG2. And, in my experience, it will take at least four times longer to encode using Compressor's MPEG1 encoder. You can make your own presets using whatever values that float your boat. My advice would be to abort the MPEG1.

If you're not ready to construct your own presets, why don't you just open the movie in the QT Player and export to MPEG2 from there? The interface is much simpler and it uses the same encoder as Compressor. Just remember that the built-in size gauge is assuming PCM audio. In other words, if you're going to be using AC3 audio, set the size about 600MBs larger than the built-in gauge indicates 8)