Another CCE question.....

[sellpipe]

I have been reading the is site trying to get together a collection of software to make the best quality DVD's of my home movies I have on DV.

I captured a home movie in AVI with scenalyzer and encoded in with CCE SP. I noticed when I encoded it with 3 passes it saved it with a ".mpv" extension (Im at work right now, nut I think that was it)

I will author it and burn to DVD, but I am still basically a newbie in DVD recording. Will I be able to author my file as is? I thought it had to be a ".mpg" file?

As always, thanks in advance or your help!!

[spidey]

It will depend on your authoring tool, but most DVD authoring is done in Elementary streams.

An mpg is a System stream (muxed audio and video together)

If you demultiplex a system stream - you get elementary streams

In the case of an Mpeg2 clip

an m2v (video) and a mp2 (audio)

Assuming you had encoded to Mpeg2 without audio in CCE, and assuming you're doing it to NTSC, and you already had your source files at 29.97 fps, simply rename the mpv to m2v

If your frate rate needs to be adjusted, you will do that first (ie 2:3 pulldown, etc..) then it will either rename it, or you'd do so following it.

[jnk76]

the mpv file is fine. For simple home movies I recommend trying Spruce Up. You just add the file with mpv and the audio follows and you can create simple menus and what not. Just name the mpv and audio file the same name.......ex.....movie.mpv and movie.ac3

Enjoy!!!!