a newbie needs big help

[anwturk]

ok, this might be a simple question for all you video masters, but I need fast help on something. While I'm fairly computer literate, I'm a video idiot. I run a football team and we recorded our games. My asst. coach just sent me the files because I promised the guys I would put the games on DVD for them. I'm running windows xp home, and using mydvd. The files are way to large and I can only fit about one hour of the avi. file on each disk. I need to get about 2:20 per dvd. How do I compress the files to fit one disk each? can I do it while they are still avi files or not? I just downloaded TMPEGEnc and have no clue how to use it or if its what I need. HELP PLEASE!!! I feel helpless, lol Feel free to email me at anwturk@comcast.net, or post a serious reply. I need to know how to do thid in the next day or two.

[sacajaweeda]

I don't use MyDVD. Or any of Sonic's stuff. Sorry. Can't be of much help to you.

[FOO]

How did someone "send" you the files ?

I'll assume you are transferring video from a camcorder
to the computer through a Firewire and getting AVIs in DV format.

TMPGenc is indeed the right program. It is an MPEG2 encoder.
It will compress your AVIs and put them in the right format for a DVD.

Is this right so far ?

[anwturk]

actually, they were emailed to me and when I got them they were an avi, and large files. Mydvd converts it to dvd, but its too big and I need two disks for a 3 hr game. I assume its off the cam corder the way you said

[anwturk]

actually, they were emailed to me and when I got them they were an avi, and large files. Mydvd converts it to dvd, but its too big and I need two disks for a 3 hr game. I assume its off the cam corder the way you said

[anwturk]

what am I saying, he gave me a cd-r's with a game on each

[anwturk]

does anyone know TMPEGEnc well enough to tell me how to set it up to do what I need??

[FOO]

Someone already has
Look in Convert in HowTo on your left.

You will have a hard time if you can't tell the difference between
email and CDs

[Redeye07]

anwturk: You are asking a lot! Video conversion is a complicated process. I think you were a little rash in promising this to your team on such short notice.

I'm confused about your avi files. They are too large for 1 DVD each but you received them on 1 CD-R each. Oh well.

Here's what I do:

Convert the .avi with TMGPenc using the appropriate wizard template.

Author in TMPGenc DVD Author to make menus and chapters and burn to DVD.

You need to do a lot of reading. Good luck.

Foo: I can never tell if you are being scarcastic or if you have the patience of a saint.

[anwturk]

Thats whats killing me, how come its too big for a dvd and it fits on an cd-r in avi format? The software I use cane with my dvd+r+rw and converts it, but doesnt compress it and takes 2 disks per 2 hr game, I just tried TMPEGEnc with a template in the wizard and half way through( at 57%) it stopped and said somethink like " out of linear range 240" and stopped. so now I'm confused

[sacajaweeda]

Thats whats killing me, how come its too big for a dvd and it fits on an cd-r in avi format?

It may be a very compressed AVI file. Check the codec. Xvid, or DivX perhaps?

[sacajaweeda]

Irregardless, assuming you have a good file you should be able to decompress if that's the case, and re-encode to MPEG-2 with a frame size and bitrate that will give you a small enough file to fit on a DVD.

Can you give a little info on your file?

[jgandara]

Are you selecting some kind of quality? It's better if you explain what are you doing on simple steps like these:
+ Open avis
+ Create chapters with each avi
+ Add some music
+ create DVd with highest qaulity
+ GETTING ERROR THAT IT DOESN'T FIT!!

something like that. Maybe you are reencoding to highest quality, do you have oother options? Wgat are the sise of the files?

Tmpgenc has several options for DVD quality, the higher the quality the higher the size of the file. You have two options CBR and VBR, the first one is faster but create slightly bigger files. They also have a number like VBR 7000 or CBR 4000, that number means quality, the higher, the better, but the size is bigger. So try maybe 4000 or 3000 and see how it goes.