I've made my movie now what? Please help!

[lheckes]

Please help. I've used to Pinnacle Studio DV7.13 to capture, edit and make my movie. I made the movie in MPEG2 format. I have a DVD burner but don't know where to go from here. When I got into this I thought I could just save it to my DVD drive and be done, but I guess I need burning software or maybe more. I'm not looking to do anything fancy just save the file on DVD so I can play it on a stand alone DVD player. The file is fairly large 1.77GB.

Can someone please help me?!

[Bodman]

I Assume you have captured as AVI then converted to MPEG2. The way I did it was

Capture to AVI using Premier
Edit Video In premier then export as a AVI (Huge 26+ gig)
Rip Audio from AVI using virtual dub saves as .WAV
Convert wav to MP2 using 2lame
convert the video in the avi to mpeg 2 using CCE


so you end up with the video and audio as mp2 and seperate streams

next I used Maestro and authored the dvd.


If you have a mpeg 2 file you could just put it into Spruce up or some other authoring package and create a Play button and chapters if you want then burn it. this would work but it depends on the desired effect you want at the end.

This is just the way i did it...Im not saying it is the best or the easist but i found it worked and the end result was good. if you want me to go further into each step, let me know and Ill expand on it.

//Bodman

[lheckes]

Thanks for your help. I did some further research and found out more. I actually made th movie as an MPEG2 file. Studio DV does this and teh clarity seems to be great. Then I down loaded Ulead DVD Movie Factory and opened the file there. DVDit came with my DVD burner but wouldn't take the file. I'm burning the DVD as I write. Hopefully it will be a success.

I do have one other question. A lot of the discussion have mentioned encoding the file. Is Pinnacle's software doing that for me or am I missing a step?

[Bodman]

Yeah, It looks like the pinnacle software is encoding to Mpeg as you capture.

//Bodman