music videos

[belvedere16]

i have i about 15 music videos i have taped and or downloaded and i want to put them on to dvd and make each Music Video a chapter..

first off, what do u sugest the best way to convert them
secondly what is the best program to burn them with that will just allow to put the videos on and no menues and other crap that wastes space!!

thx in advance

Belvedere

[housepig]

first off, what do u sugest the best way to convert them

that will depend on how the original files are encoded.

secondly what is the best program to burn them with that will just allow to put the videos on and no menues and other crap that wastes space!!

once you have them encoded to the dvd spec, join all the mpeg files together. import the joined file into DVD Lab, set chapter points before each video, and compile.

or, import each video individually, link the end of video 1 to the start of video 2, etc. etc. then set a chapter point just after the start of each video. compile.

as far as menus wasting space, the amount a simple text menu is going to take up is hardly worth mentioning - you've got 4.38Gb and you're quibbling over a few megabytes? actually, I just looked up a full screen menu file in dvd lab, with a background jpg image, and 9 text links to various chapters - it's 229K, not even half a megabyte.

[belvedere16]

thx

the files are all MPEG's

[housepig]

if they aren't dvd compliant, run them through TMPGenc.

if they are, just burn 'em.

[belvedere16]

k thx very much ill try in the morning and reply back how it goes
thx again

[poopyhead]

secondly what is the best program to burn them with that will just allow to put the videos on and no menues and other crap that wastes space!!

i personally would suggest you to include some sort of menu....DVDs are perfect for that...menu's usually take up hardly any space at all.....you could prolly do a simple menu in like 1 MB....or if you want some motion menu and buttons, it might be a little bit more space...but hardly anything significant...the menu will make your life alot easier when you wanna play the music vids