Moving MM2 to MyDVD?

[Bob]

any suggestions on a good setting to use to save a file
that will burn a DVD using MyDVD. Loaded 2 hours of a
wrestling season into MM2. Edited it, was very happy. At
MS suggestion I purchased MyDVD Plus4 to burn the file to
DVD. Sonic indicated I had to save as DV-AVI(NTSC)file.
That process took just over 2 hours to save and my
orginal MM2 file of 9.64MB grew to 29+GB. Previews very
nicely on MyDVD however, won't burn to a DVD due to the
size of the file. Sonic says their program supports any
MPEG file but offered no suggestion other than the one
mentioned. Anyone got any ideas I might try before I have
to start butchering up my "movie"

Thanks

 

[Bob]

If you import a video format other than MPEG-2, MyDVD uses its own MPEG-2
encoder to compress the video. It uses its "Best Quality" compression
setting, and you can't modify that. Also, no matter what format the video
is, MyDVD 4.0 will transcode the audio to uncompressed PCM, which takes up a
lot of disc space.

Bottom line: You can only fit about 1.5 hours of video if you let MyDVD 4.0
do the encoding.

Assuming you don't want to reduce the length of your movie, you will need to
use a different MPEG-2 encoder to compress the video first. I use TMPGEnc
Plus. Then import the MPEG-2 video into MyDVD. But keep in mind you'll
have to compress it smaller than 4GB because MyDVD will uncompress the
audio, causing the file size to grow.

FYI, Sonic has just announced the release of MyDVD 5.0, which inludes the
(optional $$$) ability to encode (compress) the audio in AC-3 format. I
don't know if they allow you to adjust the video compression settings
however.

-Bob

 

[Stan Phillips]

Bob: I have several capture programs and i have found thru trial and error
that if you capture and burn with Sonic MyDVD you can get 2 hours easy
useing the middle (better) quality setting. It does take awhile from the
time you hit burn till it's finished. Also you can tell MyDVD to create
chapter points at whatever minute (5,10,15) that you want or press spacebar
to create a chapter point. I am useing MyDVD 5.52 i think it is....Stan

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

MyDVD is a great program. The newest version is 5.0.1, and it really does
work quite well.

Bobby

 

[Bob]

Stan,

He's not capturing video. He's importing it. MyDVD does allow you to
choose the quality/compression level when you capture video, but NOT when
you transcode non-mpeg2 imported video.

-Bob