DVD Workshop and audio encoding

[sjmaye]

I am a real newbie to video editing and authoring, so please bear with me. I took my Super 8mm movies(silent), transferred them to MiniDV video and captured them in Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7. All went well.

Since then I edited the movie and added background music (MP3's). Once that was complete, I created a Microsoft AVI file from it. It was huge, ~15Gig.

I went to my DVD Workshop to start authoring. This one AVI file was what I wanted in the DVD (NTSC). Although I have successfully burned a test DVD+RW, this was the first time I also played with adding menus.

When I went to "Make Disc" I selected Fair Quality due to the length of the movie and then got ""MPEG audio is not a standard audio type for a NTSC DVD" . I went ahead anyway.

It was converting files about 4 hours hours. When the process 5/5 was 100% complete it still showed 1 minute and 24 seconds to go. I waited and waited, probably about another 15 - 20 minutes. Still a minute and 24 seconds left. All the buttons were grayed out. The hard drive light showed nothing going on. The program did not appeared to be locked up or frozen.

I went ahead with a ctl-alt-delete, end process. I managed to produce my first coaster.

There are 2 issues here:

MPEG Audio and NTSC DVDs- I know very little about the different encoding. Please explain how or what I should do to fix this and why.

The burning problem- Is what I experienced normal? Should I have waited still longer? Is the problem a function of the MPEG audio thing?

[Specialist]

I put all of my Super 8 and 8mm films on DVD.

I had to manually set my Mini DV camcorder's shutter speed to the slowest setting to reduce the flicker that always results.

I used a cheap transfer screen from SIMA.

I then replaced the DV AUDIO with .WAV-CONVERTED-TO-DV AUDIO files instead of .MP3.

Since I edited with Ulead's MediaStudio Pro, my PROJECT SETTINGS were as follows:

NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
Microsoft AVI files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Field Order A
DV Video Encoder -- type 1
DV Audio -- NTSC, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo

So I converted my CD audio sound tracks to be identical:

DV Audio -- NTSC, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo

Then I rendered the timeline out to using the following MPEG-2 encode settings:

NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Field Order A
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 8264 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48 KHz, Stereo

Then I adjusted my DVD Workshop MAKE DISC settings to precisely match and I checked the DO NOT CONVERT COMPLIANT FILES option.

My source files did not re-encode, but were instead recorded to disc.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

I am a real newbie to video editing and authoring, so please bear with me. I took my Super 8mm movies(silent), transferred them to MiniDV video and captured them in Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7. All went well.

Since then I edited the movie and added background music (MP3's). Once that was complete, I created a Microsoft AVI file from it. It was huge, ~15Gig.

I went to my DVD Workshop to start authoring. This one AVI file was what I wanted in the DVD (NTSC). Although I have successfully burned a test DVD+RW, this was the first time I also played with adding menus.

When I went to "Make Disc" I selected Fair Quality due to the length of the movie and then got ""MPEG audio is not a standard audio type for a NTSC DVD" . I went ahead anyway.

It was converting files about 4 hours hours. When the process 5/5 was 100% complete it still showed 1 minute and 24 seconds to go. I waited and waited, probably about another 15 - 20 minutes. Still a minute and 24 seconds left. All the buttons were grayed out. The hard drive light showed nothing going on. The program did not appeared to be locked up or frozen.

I went ahead with a ctl-alt-delete, end process. I managed to produce my first coaster.

There are 2 issues here:

MPEG Audio and NTSC DVDs- I know very little about the different encoding. Please explain how or what I should do to fix this and why.

The burning problem- Is what I experienced normal? Should I have waited still longer? Is the problem a function of the MPEG audio thing?