Video clips to DVD tutorial available anywhere?

[memphismarquis]

Does anyone know of a decent tutuorial about bringing all of our old video clips that we have collected over the years (QuickTime movies. MPEGs, AVIs, etc) to the DVD format? I know there is a blizzard of resolution conflicts and potential quality problems, but I have some... shall we say, classic clips that I would like to save in this way. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!
memphismarquis

[galactica]

what format are you "classic clips" in?

you need to get them ALL to .mpeg2 if you have not done so already.
then there are lots of ways to take this to dvd.

check the forum using a forum search for things like...
.mpeg to dvd
.avi to dvd
.mov to dvd

and you will find a whole host of topics covered.

ultimately, once you get your clips to .mpeg2 all you have to do is just author the dvd.

now this is where its up to you
do you ...
1. want a menu
2. want chapter marks

what you want determines how you do it.

[memphismarquis]

Thanks for your answer!

I think I know how to author a DVD from properly-formatted clips, but I am more interested in knowing about things like competing resolutions -- say I have some MPEG1 clips that are no more than 320 pixels wide. Do I have to upsample them to 720 pixels while making MPEG2s (the digital equivalent of dubbing a VHS tape recorded in SLP to another VHS tape recorded in SLP? :-)

I'm sure there's a better way that I could express this...

Thanks!
M.E.

[WiseWeasel]

Yes, the final output should be 720x480 MPEG 2, with 48 kHz AC3 audio. You will need to convert your video to that resolution, and your audio to that sampling rate at some point in the conversion process.