Suggestions with Cinema Craft 2.7

[wzwilliam]

hello you all,

i'm used to convert xvid avi's to dvd using avi2dvd and HCEnc, but i heard cinema craft is faster and gives better quality, but the version 2.7 (2.70.02.04) of it doesn't work with avi2dvd. can you guys suggest me any application like avi2dvd which works fine with cinema craft 2.7?

thank you very much.

[wzwilliam]

Ok, once no one had any suggestion i tried to convert the xvid right from cinema craft and it gave 1 .af file, 1 mpv file and 1 pcm file. i searched the forum and the site but if ound nothing clear to me on how to convert these files to dvd. again, can anybody help?

thanks.

[uxbridge]

Cinema Craft can encode mpeg2 files in many ways.
It usally provides options for having them muxed in a single mpeg file or split into mpeg video and audio. Yours appear to be split, but for a good quality DVD I would suggest you to use VBR-2 pass.
That would compel you to use split files. Go for Mpeg1 audio and you will get 2 files.
Put them in any DVD authoring package and you are done.

[wzwilliam]

thank you man, i'll try it.

[guns1inger]

Gee, you waited a whole 6 hours before getting pissy about not getting a reply. Patience, grasshopper.

CCE can take input from avisynth or virtualdub, or by loading the avi directly. In fact, 2.70.n can also resize, whereas previous version did not have this ability.

Personally, I use avisynth to resize and filter the avi, then send the video through to CCE at the correct resolution and aspect ratio. FitCD is a good place to start for creating basic avisynth scripts.

CCE can do audio, but only outputs mpeg1-layer2 audio of average quality or pcm. I use sound forge to encode stereo MP3 to 2 channel AC3.

The vaf file is the video analysis file that CCE creates when doing multi-pass encodes. Not required once encoding is finished. The mpv file is the video stream, and the pcm file is the audio stream. Any half-decent authoring toll will bring this together for you.

If you had spent the 7 hours searching the guides section and reading up, you would have worked all this out.

[wzwilliam]

guns1inger, thank you very much for the help. and i'm sorry if i seemed to be "pissy", it really was not my intention, i justy said that to explain the results i found by myself. about the search, i really did it, it just didn't get so clear to me. once again, thank you very much.