ashampoo shrnk n burn/avi burning help

[willhenderson]

anyone use it before, not shure what i should do., i tried shinking a buncha videos i have to fit more to a dvd, i shrunk a bunch to avi well over a hundred lol, anyway now when i go to nero vision xpress to try and burn it dont let me i get something about a '100 limit' too many files/titles -- also seems im out of space on a standard dvd size when the files r added up, but they show in size added up from the folder just a bit over 4 gigs and i downsized them to fit to a dvd

so basically i need a program to get these 100plus avis to dvd,any help would be appreciated

[Bjs]

Most authoring program's respect the max limit of number of title's ... being 99 .

You will need to join some title's (avi's) together to bring number of title's below 100 ...

Be carefull when joining avi's ... only join those that have match internal info .

Same video format , compression , video bitrate , audio format , bitrate ... otherwise you could end up with problem's .

Use gspot to see internal avi info .

Use a combination of super and vitualdub to convert and join .

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There is another method that involve's both joining and pgcedit , so it appear's as though there are more than 99 title's available ... but that's another guide coming soon ...

[willhenderson]

i see they are mostly all out just random, almost none are alike. thanks for the help though...i think im going to have to go another route.

[willhenderson]

since my other thread was locked...again

does anyone know of a way i can do this

i have just random wmv,mpg, avi music videos and i want to (set a output size like 4.5 gbs or so) and batch convert them to where i can fit as much possible to dvd, but to where quality is still somewhat decent.

[jimmalenko]

since my other thread was locked...again

does anyone know of a way i can do this

i have just random wmv,mpg, avi music videos and i want to (set a output size like 4.5 gbs or so) and batch convert them to where i can fit as much possible to dvd, but to where quality is still somewhat decent.

You're not playing with a full deck, are you ?

Your other thread was locked because it was incredibly similar to this one. The moral to the story is that if you start a train of thought then keep all related and follow-up questions in the one thread. IIRC this was exactly why your last thread got locked ... so learn from your mistakes.

I'll quote myself from that other post:

Any encoder you like - TMPGEnc, CCE, MainConcept, ProCoder, QuEnc, HCEnc ...... and then we have the all-in-one solutions - AVI2DVD, DivxToDVD, ConvertXToDVD .......

Given what you have just written, download the old freeware version of DivxToDVD. It will attempt to fit whatever you throw at it onto a 4.7GB disc (within reason). However the new version (convertxtodvd) complains with more than 64 titles, so you might have to do a bit of juggling.

In regards to what Bjs wrote and your response, it doesn't matter that all your source files are different at the moment. If you use an encoder then you can convert similarly-themed clips to the same specs, so that you could then group them into the same title when authoring. This way you could put the 6 clips by Kenny G in the same title, thus allowing you to fit more than 99 videos.

[willhenderson]

well since it was a bit different, i decided to make a new thread. sorry. anyhow given what you wrote, i tried DivxToDVD and boy was it a dissapointment, all of my files were off synch and i didnt try to fit a whole lot onto the project either.

also, i tried TMPGEnc Xpress 3.0., i tried about 5, 6 videos and 4 didnt play afterwards....maybe there are some settings i should keep in mind?? but it didnt seem to work out for me

[willhenderson]

r there any guides for shrinking down video in TMPGEnc i could maybe go by

[jimmalenko]

https://www.videohelp.com/guides?tools=621&&archive=%25

[willhenderson]

thanks okay see the thing i dont understand though is.., i want to get smaller files in size, but going by this guide to get mpgs with just 3 videos loaded i did a test conversion (my end results are bigger files than what the actual normal file is) but i'm trying to do the opposite and get smaller files so i can fit more to dvd

what am i to do

do you get what i'm trying to do..

[guns1inger]

First problem is your lack of understanding of how video compression works. All of the formats you have specified compress a lot more than mpeg2, the format used for most DVD work. I also suspect that most of what you have is overcompressed, and also using a much lower resolution than full-D1.

DVD is, in fact, a pretty simple beast (although a site like this is testimony to how complex simple can be). You can get 60 - 90 minutes of very good quality on a single layer (4.38gb) disc. You can get 90 - 120 minutes of good quality in the same space. After that, you start to compromise. You either reduce the resolution - first to half-D1, then to VCD resolution, or you accept that the visual quality will be very low indeed.

What you need to do first is determine the toal running time of the videos you want to put on a disc. From there you can determine the best way to do it. Given the range of formats you have, no one-click-wonder is likely to be able to do all of this. Secondly, most simple programs have a limited range of skills, even if they do use those skills well. This emans that if you need to use something like half-D1, you will have to learn how to do all your encoding and authoring manually. This takes time and effort on your part. You must also work within the DVD spec, observing limits etc. You mention more than 100 files. Assuming an average running time for a music video is 3 - 4 minutes, this puts your run time in the realm of 360 minutes, give or take. 360 minutes = 6 hours = VCD resolution = manual resizing and encoding.

The short answer is that there is no easy way to do what you want to do. You have too many files in too many formats to be able to just a press a simple "Make DVD" button, then get up the next day to watch it.

[willhenderson]

right i see i understand, thanks for the explanation, well most almost all of my files are mpg; and few wmv and avi (looking to get no more than 1/12-2 hours of vids)

what would be my first step in trying to say downsize some of the mpgs, what programs am i going to use i see a mention of manual resizing and encoding?

also with ashampoo shrink n burn, i can get numerous files, that play and look good, but it converts to avi divx (which didnt allow me to play the dvd in a normal stand alone) what if i converted all my video i wanted to avi/divx to where its looking good, and theyre all hopefully the same frame specs and all that.....and what if i then converted that to another format, wmv or such something smaller

would that maybe work im just thinking out loud

[jimmalenko]

<deep breath>


How many clips do you have ?
What is the total running time of all clips combined ?
What are "typical" or representative specs for the files ?
How many DVDs and what type (single layer or dual layer) are you prepared to use ?