Nero Video Lag issues!

[RedFoxRunner]

Hi there,

I'm using Nero SmartStart burning software. I've burnt DVDs in the past w/o a problem, but most files were usually of small size. Well, I finished a movie project & it ended up being: 4.01GB, Video: 29fps, 10kbps, Audio: 1536kbps, 16bit PCM. I realized this exceeded the space of the DVD & used "Virtual Dub" to compress the file. (which was originally rendered as a "dvavi" in Adobe Premiere)

Regardless of how how "high" I put the settings in "Virtual Dub" it always kept the file size around 500MB. So my newly compressed file (using the latest Divx codecs), was at 533MB, 29fps, 480kps (data rate), 24bit sample size, Audio: 56kps, MPEG Layer 3.

The problem that I've had with this file & many others of various sizes is when I load the movie from the menu (which loads/runs correctly), the movie begins playing okay, but the video begins to get choppy & fall behind the audio. The audio plays as it should, but the scene begin to get choppy & the longer it goes the more behind the video gets. I've tried the burnt DVDs in several different players with the same result.

I've burned at 1x & 4x speeds, different files that aren't even close to the 4GB limit, but still get the same problem. Originally when I had the problem (before I compressed), I figured since the file size was so large that Nero was downsizing it, thus creating this problem. That's clearly not the case & I'm at a loss of what to do? Anyone know of any solutions?

Thanks,
Bryant

RedFoxRunner@aol.com

[guns1inger]

I'm not even sure what the hell you are trying to do here. Part of your explanation looks like you are trying to create a DVD, but then you have a DivX compressed version, and virtualdubmod recompressing files. It all looks to be a very confused mess.

Depending on what versions of software you are using or have available, I would do the following

1. Output from Premiere in mpeg-2 format if you have Premiere Pro, or frame serve from Premiere to tmpgenc to create the mpeg-2 files. Adjust the compression setting to make sure you can fit on a disk .

2. Output audio as AC-3 if possible, and failing that, mpeg-layer 2 audio. This will take up about 20% of the space of your current audio

3. Do not go screwing around with the files in between. If you output is too big, you have two choices. You can try encoding again with different settings (best option), or create an oversized DVD on your HDD, and use DVD Shrink to correct the overrun.

Do this, and you should get a much better result in a lot less time.

[ZippyP.]

If I read you correctly, compressing an avi will have absolutely no affect on the size of the final mpeg that you create. You must lower the bitrate in your mpeg encoder, try using something like TMPGEnc. 4 GB should fit on a DVD, you might want to try TMPGEnc DVD Author as well.

[RedFoxRunner]

Thanks for your advice so far. I know my original post was complicated to understand. I'll try to summarize...

I have a file that is 4gb.. it would not burn onto a DVD & it's size was too big. I believed that by using Virtualdub to compress the file (using Divx codecs) that it would still maintain decent quality & lower the size. Well, it did, & it was around 500mb, instead of 4gb. I have Premiere 6.0 & outputing as an mpeg is not an option - I finalize it as "dvavi" with the ".avi" extension.

Despite my attempts at burning a DVD, the video would slow & not sync w/ the audio. I took your advice & attempted to import the video file into TMPGEnc, but it said it could not open or was unsupported, b/c it's avi?

Should I ouput my movies from Premiere as regular .avi as opposed to DV avi?

Thanks,
Bryant

[ZippyP.]

I took your advice & attempted to import the video file into TMPGEnc, but it said it could not open or was unsupported, b/c it's avi?

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[offline]

RedFoxRunner,
could you provide a step by step example of what
you are doing? Compressing an AVI to Divx and
then re-encoding via Tmpgenc is a messy way to
do things and quality will be lost. Is that what you
are doing? (I'm confused)