Flow Process to DVD

[Dobermann]

My eyes are tired of all the reading trying to find out what I consider to be a few basic questions. Lots of great articles to tell you how to do things, though, but they never tell you the logic or reasoning behind it so that I could answer my own questions.

My tools are ULead MSP 7, ULead DVD Movie Factory 2, Nero, TMPGEnc (free version), ffmpeggui Audio Extractor, Premiere LE, GSpot and probably a few others that I have DL'd and using Trial versions.

My questions are these:

1. I have 6 different video clips with different formats (avi, mpegs) that I wish to burn to 1 DVD. The MPGs are a few different formats. They are all different subjects and do not flow as one video (ie, how to restring pearls, a tribute to Ronald Regan, a dog doing backflips, etc). I do not wish to make a movie out of them, and when authored, each clip's chapter will return to the main menu rather than flowing into the next chapter or clip.

Using MSP, I cut out the segments of each clip that I do not want. Here is what nothing seems to answer. Must I save all six clips as one large file, converted to MPEG 2 format? Is there another format to which I should save them as one large file, ie, the best format of all the clips, the lesser format of all the clips? Or, do I save each one individually, and if so, to what format? From what I have read, TMPGEnc does a better job re-encoding, so I believe I should use that program instead of MSP, which is partially the reason why these other questions come to mind.

2. As an aside, if all the clips were related and I wanted to make a movie out of them and when authored, each clip's chapter will automagically flow into the next chapter or clip, how would I decide what format to save them to in MSP bearing in mind that they might all have different file specs and that they will be demuxed in TMPGEnc and ffmpeggui?

3. Moving forward from question #1, I now have either one large file, or six separate files. Using TMPGEnc, I have read that I should demux the video and use ffmpeggui to demux the audio. This now gives me either 12 or 2 files, depending upon what I did in question #1 above. Or, another possibility could be that I start with six clips in TMPGEnc and have it demux into just one video and the same with ffmpeggui to start with six clips and demux into just one audio, correct? Which is the correct method to use?

4. I have read here both 9800 and 10800 are max bitrate for a DVD via TMPGEnc. That is physically not possible. Why is 192 for stereo the magic number for audio that seems to be so prevalent when the standard is 224 per the section entitle Video File Comparison on https://www.videohelp.com/dvd ?

5. Bear with me here, as the above questions and answer flow directly into this one. Now that I have all these separate audio and video files (2 or 12 files), I now need to bring them back to be authored. Using Ulead DVD Movie Factory 2, I would then select Import DVD Video and select the file(s) TMPGEnc created. But now the closest I can get to getting the audio brought in is to select Replace Audio. How in the world is ULead going to sync my audio correctly? It's on a wing and a prayer that they would precisely match what with all the steps it has been through and the different programs used. What am I missing? What am I not seeing here? Is there another program that I should use instead of ULead DVD Movie Factory?

Enquiring and Frazzled Minds Want to Know.....
Dobermann

[thecoalman]

Using MSP, I cut out the segments of each clip that I do not want. Here is what nothing seems to answer. Must I save all six clips as one large file, converted to MPEG 2 format? Is there another format to which I should save them as one large file, ie, the best format of all the clips, the lesser format of all the clips? Or, do I save each one individually, and if so, to what format? From what I have read, TMPGEnc does a better job re-encoding, so I believe I should use that program instead of MSP, which is partially the reason why these other questions come to mind.

Encode them as individual files to any spec as long as it falls within the DVD specs. What settings to use depend on what they are now. You can leave them as is if they are currently DVD compliant. Download the trial version for Ulead DVD Workshop. It will author video clips with different attributes. Just select the "do not convert compliant video"option. Yopu can even have 4:3 and 16:9 on the same disc.