CHRISTMAS PRESENT HELP burning dvd season

[joeyo]

hello everyone thankyou for your time in checking my forum post.
I am trying to make a full season box set for my Girlfriend for Christmas and could use a little guidance as far what DVDs to buy to burn full seasons on. The file details are as follow.

Each season has 18 episodes at aprox 200 mb each avi files. 30 min run time episodes.
so i would need aprox 2gb if i was to keep them as data or i would need 9 hours of playtime on each DVD. I plan to put each season in there own DVD and case.

I also am planning on making a custom dvd menu with a custom background picture and title but i think i have that part figured out unless anyone can suggest a program to do that with personal experience.

i appreciate any input i can get and will be going to purchase the materials on friday.

Thankyou for your time.

[aedipuss]

not likely going to convert to dvd and be watchable if made to 1 dvd. the bitrate would be way too low. they are probably fairly crappy quality avis to begin with.

be a good boyfriend and go and buy her the real dvd set. creating crappy quality dvds isn't going to get you anything but a cold stare.

[sanlyn]

I'm in total agreement with aedipuss: 30 minutes of video in a 200 MB avi really is crap. No way you'll get 19 hours of DVD on a single disc, not even dual layer. AVI isn't DVD compliant anyway, they have to be encoded to MPEG2 and authored. I don't even think they'd make it by Christmas 2013 unless you get a better handle on what a DVD is. Might be a good idea to take a look at What Is DVD?.

You're talking about a big project, even for an experienced hobbyist. But have a Merry Christmas anyway.

[deadrats]

better yet, see if you can find the complete season of whatever show it is she likes on blu-ray, she's not going to appreciate a "gift" dvd set made of downloaded tv shows burned to semi-decent dvd-r's.

seriously, are you trying to ensure you never get laid again?

[sanlyn]

Uh....more information than we need. Like, seriously O.T. ?

[Cornucopia]

...seriously, are you trying to ensure you never get laid again?

That's gotta be my favorite Videohelp line this year!

Scott

[joeyo]

first off...there is no better quality there vhs rips of a series that was not made on DVD so i got the original rips from VHS tapes and i never said i needed 19 hjours on 1 dvd i said i need 9 hours on 1 dvd...im planing on burning 7 dvds 1 for each season....its her favorite kids show from when she was a kid and has been looking constantly for them to release it on dvd but they never have and everything that has been released on dvd are just bootlegs and have the same quality of the ones ive already downloaded...i honestly just needed to know what type of dvd i should be burning them on and also what program to use......im not cheap. im planning on customizing every dvd with background images and play menus including prnted images for each dvd season including dvd art and jewel case art i also have images i plan to put on a personally made box set art for them....so its not that im being cheap its that it is the one thing she has always wanted and are not available as a dvd set cause they dont exist..so i decided to make one myself.

[Noahtuck]

...seriously, are you trying to ensure you never get laid again?

That's gotta be my favorite Videohelp line this year!

Scott

Yep!!

I laughed my ass off when I read that!!!
LOL!!!

[_Al_]

I'm not sure what is your location, best gift would be to get her media player ike WDTV Live and such , Best Buy's got them, they are less then $100, maybe even close to $50 e-bay and such (but not sure you have time to shop around before Christmas).

Get some thumbdrive and copy all those shows on it and give it to her too.

Or you can get her WDTV Live Hub, where hardrive is already inside. You download it there and get it to her. One box , wrap it up pretty.

[usually_quiet]

first off...there is no better quality there vhs rips of a series that was not made on DVD so i got the original rips from VHS tapes and i never said i needed 19 hjours on 1 dvd i said i need 9 hours on 1 dvd...im planing on burning 7 dvds 1 for each season....its her favorite kids show from when she was a kid and has been looking constantly for them to release it on dvd but they never have and everything that has been released on dvd are just bootlegs and have the same quality of the ones ive already downloaded...i honestly just needed to know what type of dvd i should be burning them on and also what program to use......im not cheap. im planning on customizing every dvd with background images and play menus including prnted images for each dvd season including dvd art and jewel case art i also have images i plan to put on a personally made box set art for them....so its not that im being cheap its that it is the one thing she has always wanted and are not available as a dvd set cause they dont exist..so i decided to make one myself.

I agree with everyone else.

1. You have not allowed yourself enough time to complete this project. Find a different gift.

2. 9 hours of video per DVD is unrealistic. Given the VHS source for your video and the fact that it is is highly compressed, it is likely to have a lot of noise and compression artifacts. Your video will not look good when re-encoded to DVD-compliant MPEG-2 unless you allocate more space per episode. Even with a cleaner source than what you have, I have never put more than 4 hours of video on a DVD. I normally don't put more than 2 hours of video on a single layer DVD if I want it to look reasonably good.

[sanlyn]

first off...there is no better quality there vhs rips of a series that was not made on DVD so i got the original rips from VHS tapes and i never said i needed 19 hjours on 1 dvd i said i need 9 hours on 1 dvd...im planing on burning 7 dvds 1 for each season....its her favorite kids show from when she was a kid and has been looking constantly for them to release it on dvd but they never have and everything that has been released on dvd are just bootlegs and have the same quality of the ones ive already downloaded...i honestly just needed to know what type of dvd i should be burning them on and also what program to use......im not cheap. im planning on customizing every dvd with background images and play menus including prnted images for each dvd season including dvd art and jewel case art i also have images i plan to put on a personally made box set art for them....so its not that im being cheap its that it is the one thing she has always wanted and are not available as a dvd set cause they dont exist..so i decided to make one myself.

Okay, you've given a little more detail, so let's get serious.

First: you can't get 9 hours of decent MPEG2 video on 1 DVD disc. Period. Not if you want it to be viewable (VHS tapes would look infinitely better!). Conmsidering that you have heavily compressed AVI's, you'll need some serious cleanup and artifact removal. Do a good job on that, and you might get it clean enough to resize to 720x480 for DVD (or 720x576 for PAL DVD), and a bitrate of around 5000 mbps double-pass VBR will get you maybe 1:45 to 2:00 on 1 DVD disc, or twice that runtime on dual-layer DVD.

Next: You don't say what compression scheme your avi's use. Let me put it another way: AVI is not DVD. Standard DVD uses MPEG2 encoding. The MPEG's you want on each disc have to be joined with an MPEG editor (or several AVI's joined together and encoded en masse to MPEG2) and audio has to be upgraded to AC3. Then the MPEG2's for each DVD disc have to be authored (which means you create optional menus, chapters, thumbnails, etc.,) and configure the MPEG file and folder structure for burning to disc. Be mindful, too, that standard MPEG is interlaced and/or progressive-with-3:2-pulldown, and you've given very little info about those technical aspects of your avi's.

Neither have you said what you plan to "buy on Friday". That leaves us with nothing to say about your choice of software. You might want to get into more detail about your avi's, where they came from, what compression they use, or even something as basic as whether you're using NTSC or PAL. Really, we don't have much to work with here. If you're not even getting started until 12/21/2012 and think you can encode, author, and burn 18 or so MPEG2 episodes onto DVD within 3 or 4 days, well.......

Or rather than a "real" DVD, were you planning on making a video data disc of joined AVI's ? That would be somewhere in the neighborhood of possibility, but all you need is a player that can handle AVI's. Those exist, too. But you didn't say, so we can't.

BTW, what is a "VHS rip"? You mean a capture? Ripping and capturing don't mean the same thing, so again you have us confused.

[lingyi]

I’ll speak to what I’m able to answer about your original question.

Brand of DVD? Either Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim AZO. Nothingelse is recommended here. Unfortunately, neither one of which you’re likely tofind by going shopping on Friday. They’re generally only available through mailorder.

You’re planning to customize the discs themselves? Do you have or have access to a inkjet disc printer? Further limits your Taiyo Yudenor Verbatim AZO printable DVDs. Labels are an absolute no-no!

Burning software? Imgburn!

Add this to the posts above and you're setting her and yourself up from some major disappointment. Not to mention what deadrats said.

Seriously though, your heartis in the right place, but your thought process isn’t.
Picture her seeing your carefully crafted artwork, puttingin the disc to play and seeing the superlow quality of her cherished childhood memories.

You state that it hasn’t been released on DVD. There’s anentire world out there (literally) available thorough patient searching of theinternet. Just because it hasn’t been released in your country, doesn’t meanthat it hasn’t been released anywhere in the world.

As an alternative,you could buy the VHS tapes and either give her a VHS recorder (availableeither extremely cheap or Free!) or spend the time transferring them to high qualitydigital copies. Tapes not available on the internet? Search your localSalvation Army / Goodwill (or equivalent ) store or your local garage sales.

Get that tapes, follow the numerous posts about how to capture them, improve them and preserve them.

You might be looking at next Christmas or the one after that before you’re done, but at least itthought process will match what’s in your heart