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Jansar · Sep 2, 2003, 03:58 PM

I have a long movie file (approximately 110 minutes), and I know that iDVD doesn't let you go past 90 minutes, plus I have no idea how DVD Studio Pro works. Is there any way to simply take the movie file and burn it straight onto the DVD-R without superior knowledge of DVDSP? (The disc can hold 120 minutes on standard play.)

goldplata · Sep 3, 2003, 09:08 AM

Probably the new Roxio Toast 6.0?? You can burn directly from DV to DVD.
Normally Toast is more flexible... I couldn�t try it because Toast was released yesterday...

tr · Sep 3, 2003, 10:38 AM

a long movie file? what format is it in? how was it encoded?

even if it is 110 minutes, that doesn't mean that it can fit on a 'standard play' DVD-R. i think you can fit 120 minutes if the video was encoded at 4 mbit/sec in mpeg-2.

if your video is in mpeg-2, then you could be good to go. but if it's not, you'll have a lot of reencoding to do.

tr

vmpaul · Sep 8, 2003, 11:06 PM

Originally posted by tr:
a long movie file? what format is it in? how was it encoded?

even if it is 110 minutes, that doesn't mean that it can fit on a 'standard play' DVD-R. i think you can fit 120 minutes if the video was encoded at 4 mbit/sec in mpeg-2.

if your video is in mpeg-2, then you could be good to go. but if it's not, you'll have a lot of reencoding to do.

tr

What if it's encoded as a MPEG-1? DVD supports that format as well. Would that give you more time? It's all about file size, correct?

tr · Sep 9, 2003, 08:41 AM

oh, yeah, DVD supports mpeg-1 too. when i talk about encoding, i meant if the videos were .avi or .mov, or something else, i guess i should've been more specific.

yeah, if it's a proper mpeg-1, you can burn it to DVD. i think you'll just have to make sure the audio is upsampled to 48kHz.

tr

vmpaul · Sep 9, 2003, 12:20 PM

Originally posted by tr:

yeah, if it's a proper mpeg-1, you can burn it to DVD. i think you'll just have to make sure the audio is upsampled to 48kHz.

tr

What's the proper mpeg-1 format?

I have some EyeTV formatted mpeg's that I'd like to burn to DVD using DVD Studio Pro. (sorry newbie question, I just got DSP and haven't gone through the book yet).

tr · Sep 9, 2003, 03:25 PM

Originally posted by vmpaul:
What's the proper mpeg-1 format?

I have some EyeTV formatted mpeg's that I'd like to burn to DVD using DVD Studio Pro. (sorry newbie question, I just got DSP and haven't gone through the book yet).

oh, i don't know, one that works?

yeah, i don't know specifics (or i'm just too lazy to think

), but anything EyeTV puts out will work. i've heard some people say that Toast 6 will allow you to drop your mpeg-1's in to create DVD's, and it will do the audio upsampling for you automatically, without re-encoding the video. i just got toast 6, but i haven't tried that yet.

tr

midwinter · Sep 9, 2003, 06:40 PM

Originally posted by tr:
oh, i don't know, one that works?
yeah, i don't know specifics (or i'm just too lazy to think ), but anything EyeTV puts out will work. i've heard some people say that Toast 6 will allow you to drop your mpeg-1's in to create DVD's, and it will do the audio upsampling for you automatically, without re-encoding the video. i just got toast 6, but i haven't tried that yet.

tr

It will.

I'm also pretty sure that you can throw just about any QT-compatible video file into Toast and it'll make a DVD for you.

Cheers
Scott

vmpaul · Sep 9, 2003, 07:53 PM

Originally posted by tr:
oh, i don't know, one that works?
yeah, i don't know specifics (or i'm just too lazy to think ), but anything EyeTV puts out will work.
tr

The reason I ask is that I tried dropping an EyeTV mpeg-1 file into DVD Studio Pro and it wouldn't take it. I ended up converting it using Compressor to an MPEG-2 but it lost the audio.

I know Toast 6 will work but I'm looking for a few more options with the menus and background.

tr · Sep 9, 2003, 07:58 PM

Originally posted by vmpaul:
The reason I ask is that I tried dropping an EyeTV mpeg-1 file into DVD Studio Pro and it wouldn't take it. I ended up converting it using Compressor to an MPEG-2 but it lost the audio.

I know Toast 6 will work but I'm looking for a few more options with the menus and background.

yeah, you can't just drop a muxed mpeg-1 file into DVDSP. you're going to have to de-mux it first, and then try dropping the video and the audio into DVDSP.

tr

vmpaul · Sep 9, 2003, 08:38 PM

Originally posted by tr:
yeah, you can't just drop a muxed mpeg-1 file into DVDSP. you're going to have to de-mux it first, and then try dropping the video and the audio into DVDSP.

tr

Ok, thanks. I'd hoped to stay away from all that muxing crap but if it involves ONLY de-muxing, that's not too bad.

Thanks.

Volanges · Sep 13, 2003, 10:17 PM

I'm just starting to get "into" all of this and was wondering if someone could point me to a concise on-line information source on the basics of digital video editing and DVD burning.

I've browsed these forums and the DVDHelp Mac section forums, but was hoping for one instructional (or even a book recommendation) for this information.

Thanks