DVD dont play in old TVs and other questions

[shojidudu]

Hello everybody, i'm new here and new in conversions/authoring/editing things. I dont understand english well so if you cant understand what i wrote i'll try to explain again.

1- I burned a DVD with nero vision and in some tvs (i think the old ones) the movie just dont play (a message in the screen says that the tv cant play the movie or something like this) and with the same dvd player in new tv it works fine.

2- And the nero vision can make a dvd video with more than 6 hours? I couldnt make a dvd with more than 4,5 hours (i tried the super long play and the custom settings). If not there's an easy to use software that can do that?

3- And i would like to put some effects in a video (like lightening balls, animations interacting whith the things/persons in the video), which easy to use program do you recommend

i hope someone can help me and thanks.

[guns1inger]

1. Could be a format problem. You may have made a PAL disc and tried to play it on NTSC only TVs. Sometimes oyu get black and white pictures, or the picture rolls, and sometimes a TV simply wont accept the signal. This would be the firs thing I would look at, given that you used the same DVD player on both TVs.

2. There is no nice way to get 6 hours on a single layer disc. You have to compromise quality and resolution to do this. If you must, convert the video to VCD resolution, and upsample the audio to 48Khz. You can then put around 7 - 8 hours on a disc. However the quality will be VHS or worse.

3. Most of the software to do this is a) complicated and b) expensive. In the commercial world you would be looking at something like After Effects or Combustion, or even Digital Fusion. In the freeware world, WAX2 or ZS4. You could also look at Particle Illusion, a lower cost effects tool that can do some pretty smart things. Not as flexible as something like After Effects, but good for it does.

[shojidudu]

thanks guns1inger

1- I used the Brazil PAL option in Nero Vision

2- Nero Vision do this or I must convert the video first (which bitrate is recommended)? Is it possible to make a VCD video on a DVD?

3- I think I'll try the freeware ones, I dont wanna spend money....it's just dor fun

[guns1inger]

For DVD there is only PAL and NTSC. The player adjusts the signal to account for the variations within these. There is no specific Brazil PAL setting. If Nero has one, it is just a wank.

Possibly the best encoder is the free version of tmpgenc. You get a couple of weeks of full function, after which it becomes VCD only. But it is a very good quality VCD encoder. Check out What is DVD (top left corner of this page) to see what resolutions and bitrates are acceptable for DVD. 6 hours gives you a video bitrate of 1499 kbps if you use 192 kbps for the audio. This is better than standard VCD bitrates.

WAX2 is probably the easier of the two free compositors, although stability is a little shaky. You should have a look at these guys to see if they have any footage you can use -> http://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm

Another compositor that might be worth looking at is the opensource Jahshaka -> http://www.jahshaka.org/ which has an interface very much like combustion.

[shojidudu]

The brazilian color system is caled PALM-M, I don't know if it's the same from Nero.

I encoded a video with tmpgenc with these settings:
Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-1 352x240 29,97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)
But I couldn't put more than I usually put in a DVD (288 min - 12 videos of 24 min) whith Nero Vision

[guns1inger]

NeroVision isn't a very smart application, and has a bad habit of re-encoding material that is DVD compliant, resulting in less material fitting than you would get through other methods.

If you put the same material into something like TDA, it would resample the audio to 48khz, and use the video as it, allowing for a longer running time.

In short, your problem in NeroVision.

As for the different varieties of PAL, DVD doesn't care, You don't encode as PAL-M/N/B, you just encode as PAL. The player itself takes care of which variety at playback. I could encode a PAL disc for Australia and it would play just as well in Brazil. In the DVD land, PAL is just a resolution and framerate, as is NTSC. Everything else is in the playback hardware.