27 AVI's to severeal DVD's

[coldrcy]

Ok I'm very new to this conversion lark. I'm looking to create a DVD Box set from 27 AVI's. What method would work?

I'm worried that If I use Tmpgenc on each single Avi (which are about 3-400mb in size) that it will use up a whole DVD for one AVI.

Is this the case?

Is there a fool proof method to creating and putting say 3 or 4 Avi's on one DVD?

Thanks for any help you can offer!

[Capmaster]

Pick an authoring app and just import the clips. Then author and burn.

The size increases because it's being made into DVD-compliant files. Try making 1/2D1 files instead of the full D1 DVD. And ....make sure the audio is NOT LPCM.

It must be transcoded to AC3 or MP2 audio during the authoring or editing step. Otherwise the audio will end up eating up huge amounts of disc space. Very important.

[coldrcy]

Pick an authoring app and just import the clips. Then author and burn.

The size increases because it's being made into DVD-compliant files. Try making 1/2D1 files instead of the full D1 DVD. And ....make sure the audio is NOT LPCM.

It must be transcoded to AC3 or MP2 audio during the authoring or editing step. Otherwise the audio will end up eating up huge amounts of disc space. Very important.

I'm following a quide from Paddy's World. I'm encoding the Video 1st then the audio. Do you think I'll get at least 4 on to a single DVD by doing this?

[Capmaster]

Hard to tell because "AVI" is not a real format, merely a container or "wrapper" extension. The size difference will depend on the compression of the original files.

About the only thing you can do is test it out with a single file, author and burn the DVD files to a HD folder, not the disc. This willl give you a rule of thumb for the remaining files, provided they were all from the same source.

[coldrcy]

Is there a faster way of doing this? It's taken about 4 hours to convert 1 AVI file. I have spare time on my hands but I also have 27 of these files to burn.

If I use something like WinAvi to create the DVD file, whats the best thing to burn the DVD's to disc? I would also want to create Chapters and Menus.

[Atoning Unifex]

In all honesty, you could probably save yourself a load of hassle and just buy youreself a stand alone dvd player capable of playing divx/xvid files like a yamada player, works fine with most files!

[Capmaster]

Is there a faster way of doing this? It's taken about 4 hours to convert 1 AVI file. I have spare time on my hands but I also have 27 of these files to burn.

If I use something like WinAvi to create the DVD file, whats the best thing to burn the DVD's to disc? I would also want to create Chapters and Menus.

Hard to tell whether 4 hours is normal or not. You didn't fill out any computer info in yor profile.

The inescapable fact is that at some point your video clips are going to require encoding into a DVD-compliant format.

There's an easier way to do it than what you're doing, but it requires buying hardware and already having a camcorder: hardware-encode from the analog source. If you can upload the files to your camcorder and play them back through the analog outputs, a hardware encoder will capture directly to MPEG2, eliminating the need to software encode.

That would require buying a hardware capture card (not as expensive as they were not too long ago) and having a camcorder already. Otherwise I think you're stuck with some awfully long encoding times. :P