Digital camera video to DVD

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[julitomg]

Mostly wondering about recommended bitrate for encoding (video and audio) and if NTSC or PAL would be best considering the framerate.

Search in the TOOLS section of this site and look for a bitrate calculator, the bitrate will also depend on how long your clips are (running time)
Given the framerates from your cameras, you should keep in NTSC, the result will play on any computer and many PAL DVD players, make a small test to see if it plays in one or two different ones.
If you still feel the need to convert from 30/29.97 to 25 fps, there are also guides around here, but I don´t know if it´d be worth it. You can also use AVStoDVD, a very good free software that will convert your movie clips (it can also convert the framerate) to DVD compliant files or even make the whole DVD with menus and all.

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[yoda313]

You have to make it dvd compatible if you are making it a true dvd.

The audio for the first camera is not dvd compliant. It will have to be reencoded to 48khz. And the video is way too high for dvd.

Here are the specs for ntsc video:

Video:
Up to 9.8 Mbit/s* (9800 Kbit/s*) MPEG2 video
Up to 1.856 Mbit/s (1856 Kbit/s) MPEG1 video
720 x 480 pixels MPEG2 (Called Full-D1)
704 x 480 pixels MPEG2
352 x 480 pixels MPEG2 (Called Half-D1, same as the CVD Standard)
352 x 240 pixels MPEG2
352 x 240 pixels MPEG1 (Same as the VCD Standard)
29,97 fps*
23,976 fps with 3:2 pulldown = 29,97 playback fps (NTSC Film, this is only supported by MPEG2 video)
16:9 Anamorphic (only supported by 720x480)


Audio:
48000 Hz
32 - 1536 Kbit/s
Up to 8 audio tracks containing DD (Dolby Digital/AC3), DTS, PCM(uncompressed audio), MPEG-1 Layer2. One audio track must have DD or PCM Audio.

https://www.videohelp.com/dvd

That link contains what I just posted and includes the data for pal dvd.

You have to tell tmpgenc to use the ntsc or pal dvd preset. There are different bitrate levels of course. But you have to get it to dvd specs first regardless of anything else.

It might be better to use avstodvd as julitomg suggested. It will do the conversion and authoring for you. Tell it if you want a single layer or dual layer dvd and it will make it fit the disc. And you can do it with a menu too.

Edit - sorry for posting ntsc data - didnt' read you are in pal. But regardless dvd audio spec is 48khz for either format fyi.

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