Problems With VHS Conversion To DVD.

[MLOR]

I have recently converted some old VHS footage to 2 seperate files - 1. AVI File & 2. Wave File.
I need a program that will blend these two files together to produce a finished DVD file that I can view on an everyday DVD player.

I have used Premier to capture the VHS footage & produce the 2 files. I have plenty of film to transfer to DVD So I hope to find a program that will work efficiently.

Can someone please suggest an appropriate program ?


Thanks,
MLOR.

[redwudz]

You can do that with most encoders when you encode the AVI to a DVD compliant MPEG-2 file. TMPGEnc encoder is what I use.

Or you can 'mux' them (Combine the audio with the AVI video) with a program like VirtualDub.

Or you can convert the WAV to AC3 with ffmpeggui and add it back with the encoded MPEG-2 file when you author to DVD with a program like TMPGEnc DVD Author. This is the method I normally use with a AVI to DVD conversion. It's a little more compact and compatible than the MPEG-1, Layer 2 audio that TMPGEnc encoder normally produces.

Whether they need to be muxed depends on your encoder. If it can use separate video and audio sources, you can just select each one. If it needs them combined, you can mux them first.

You can also use an all-in-one converter like ConvertXToDVD and let it do the mixing, encoding and authoring all in one program. There is also a older freeware version available, XvidToDVD. The quality is generally a little better with TMPGEnc or similar and TAD to author, but it takes some reading to learn all of that.

[harley2ride]

Which version of Premiere do you have. I have 6.5, and I can capture, and encode to MPEG2 with it. I just have to use a seperate program to create the dvd. Even Sonic MyDVD can handle that process. But for important stuff, I use Vegas 5 and DVD Architect