AVI to DVD

[allycat]

I am encoding with TMPGenc to DVD RW for the first time, but am not sure what settings to use on TMPGenc when I get to the bitrate part and the advanced settings, can someone give me a rough idea as to what they should be? When I go to the last part of the settings what should the average bitrate setting be, and if a movie is in three parts what should the file size be for each one to get the maximum on a dvd.

Hope this makes sense, I know it depends on the length of the movie in total but I am new to DVD's. I used to have to do one movie on two cd's.

Thanks

[Solarjetman]

Here is a nice guide for making high quality videos with TMPGEnc. It explains most of the settings and good overall settings to use. Start there and tweak them how you like them.

[FulciLives]

First of all add up the movie to get the total running time. If it is spread out over 3 AVI files then simply add up the running time of each.

Then use a bitrate calculator to figure out the bitrate you should use. There is a very simple bitrate calculator located on this website:

https://www.videohelp.com/calc

The value it gives is what you should use if you are doing a CBR encode. If you are doing a 2-PASS VBR encode then that is what your AVERAGE bitrate should be. For the MINIMUM I suggest 2000kbps and for the MAXIMUM use 8000kbps

Once you determine the bitrate for the TOTAL running time you will have set the encoder with the same settings for all 3 parts and encode seperatly. You can then use the MPEG TOOLS section in TMPGEnc to stich the 2 MPEG files into one.

Also I'm not 100% sure about what I'm about to say but it happened to me once so ...

If you put all 3 of the AVI clips in the same DIR (or FOLDER) and rename them all the same in an order (such as FILE1.AVI, FILE2.AVI and FILE3.AVI) and you load FILE1.AVI into TMPGEnc (using the WIZARD MODE mind you) then I think it will automatically grab the other two files giving you one large single MPEG in the end. The benefit of this is that when using the WIZARD MODE you can use the built-in BITRATE CALCULATOR and determine the AVG bitrate (try to get it as close to 100% but not too close so you have room to do your authoring stage such as adding a menu design etc.)

TMPGEnc will give you a warning if the file is bigger than 4070MB or something like that but a DVD can hold about 4478MB with 4300MB being a safe spot to shoot for (never good in my opinion to fill it up TOO much).

Actually it probably is good to not go over 4100MB so you have enough room for overhead and whatnot

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

*** EDIT ***
Fixed my LINK to the CALCULATOR page as it was slightly wrong