How do I merge 2 AVI to DVD adding saturation +black levels?

[JoeBolden]

I need to merge 2 AVI that someone created from a single CAM movie. Want to add some saturation and pump up the black levels because of prevail's crappy encoding the video suffers. Then or at the same time convert to a DVD main movie.

Can anyone recommend software, procedures and settings to use?

I want to try to get the best quality DVD I can from what I have. I know that it will not be great but any improvement will do. DVD5 or DVD9 whatever is best.

Thank you, Joey

Both avi's are the same format total time over 2 hours 23 min

Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 700 MiB
Duration : 1h 12mn
Overal bit rate : 1340 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Video
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Streaming Video@L1
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Muxing mode : Packet Bitstream
Duration : 1h 12mn
Bit rate : 1199 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 272 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.287
Stream size : 626 MiB
Writing library : XviD 1.1.2 (UTC 2006-11-01)

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 12mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 67.0 MiB

[tinker]

You can check ConvertX2DVD. Other apps are in Tools section on this page, left side.

[jagabo]

I would use AviSynth:

AviSource("video1.avi")+AviSource("video2.avi")

Then use it's Levels(), ColorYUV(), RGBAdjust(), etc. to adjust colors and black level, and finally, LanczosResize() and AddBorders() to scale for DVD.

Keep in mind that the colors you see on the computer are very different than what you will see on a TV after burning to DVD.

VirtualDub has an an append option that should work to join the files. Be sure to use a recent release that supports VBR audio better. You can also do all your other adjustments with it.