Copying Movie Titles to Hard Drive, then to new DVD

[RLMuller240432]

Hi,

 

I want to rearrange titles from a bunch of DVDs in order to group related titles and burn them to new DVDs.

 

I just started copying my first title. I saw three format options. I went with the MPEG options. Was that the best choice, or are others better for preserving the fidelity of the original movies?

 

TIA,

Richard

[Guest ml]

New tactic, move them and bury them?

cd

 

Not intentionally.

 

Apparently someone moved the original post to this forum and forgot to leave a link to show where the post had been moved.

[RLMuller240432]

Don't worry about the project size. The thing to remember is that you can get only one hour of best quality video on a single sided DVD; up to slightly less than two hours at reduced quality. In MyDVD, when you go to burn, select best quality rather than fit to disc and create an ISO file. When that file is completed, simply copy that ISO file to a DVD using Disc Copier. It will put that file on the disc at the best quality possible. If it bulks at that, the file is really too big.

 

If you want to put a lot of hours on a DVD, you can do it as DivX files but you'll need a DivX compatible player to play it. Some of those are very inexpensive.

 

No matter what you start with the files are converted to mpg to be playable on a normal DVD player.

 

I'm new to all this audio-visual stuff, so I'm still trying to get a grip on some of the details. Thanks for responding to my question(s)

 

> you can get only one hour of best quality video on a single sided DVD

 

That seems strange to me because so many multi-hour movies are sold on single-sided DVDs.

 

> If you want to put a lot of hours on a DVD, you can do it as DivX files but you'll need a DivX compatible player to play it.

> No matter what you start with the files are converted to mpg to be playable on a normal DVD player.

 

From these two statements, I take it that:

1. If I extract into DivX format I won't suffer the bloat that I got by extracting into WMV format.

2. My smaller DivX extracts will get converted to AVI format when I write them to a new DVD, just the way WMV files get converted when exported to a DVD.

 

So why would using an intermediate DivX format lead to requiring a different DVD player, while WMD intermediates would not?

 

Or is there a different DVD editor available that will extract all my sub-one-hour titles from my current one-sided DVD and package them as is into an ISO file that I can write to a new one-sided DVD and then play them on my current DVD players?

 

TIA,

Richard

 

 

Avi isn't better quality than mpeg, just different.

Only advantage is doing advanced video editing. If one just wants to capture and convert, then capturing to AVI and encoding to mpeg later just takes more time.

 

cd

 

Hi CD,

 

Thanks for your input. I'm try to get a grip on this audio-visual stuff.

 

> capturing to AVI

 

How can I do that with EMC9? I only saw three capture options: MPEG, DivX and WMV9.

 

Regards,

Richard

[d_deweywright]

I'm new to all this audio-visual stuff, so I'm still trying to get a grip on some of the details. Thanks for responding to my question(s)

 

> you can get only one hour of best quality video on a single sided DVD

 

That seems strange to me because so many multi-hour movies are sold on single-sided DVDs.

 

<snip>

Regards,

Richard

That should have said, "you can get only one hour of best quality video on a single-layer DVD. Most commercial DVDs are double layer.

[ggrussell]

Avi isn't better quality than mpeg, just different.

AVI format is just a 'container' and therefore many types of compression can be 'labled' as 'AVI'. Making such a blanket statement doesn't tell the complete truth. It really depends on the codec used to create the AVI.

 

For example if the DV codec was used, then your statement would be completely false. The DV codec uses much less compression with much better quality as a result.

 

If the the DivX codec was used, then I would easily agree with your statement.

[RLMuller240432]

You burn them in MyDVD. MyDVD makes the a compliant DVD movie, which you can play in your set top DVD player.

 

Hi Bruce,

 

Nice to hear from you again.

 

OK. I imported 5 approximately equal sized titles from a DVD . I saved them as MPEGs because that's the way I started out. I thought I'd just walk through the entire process of selecting/burning a suite of titles.

 

When I imported 3 of them in MyDVD and set properties pretty much as recommended in MyDVD-Help,

I clicked Burn. That gave me:

- capacity 4706.1 MB (that looks about right to me)

- project 9750.8 (woops, we got a little bloated)

 

Apparently MPEG compression isn't as good as the compression used in writing my source DVD originally on my TV-connected DVR. Will importing them in WMV9 yield better compression? Or is there something else I need to do? In general, I'd like to have this process fit all the imported titles onto a blank DVD of the same quality.

 

Regards,

Richard

[cdanteek]

Avi file has better quality than mpg file.

 

Making such a blanket statement doesn't tell the complete truth. It really depends on the codec used to create the AVI.

 

sxcuse me, "DV-AVIs"........

 

cd

[sknis]

Hi Bruce,

 

Nice to hear from you again.

 

OK. I imported 5 approximately equal sized titles from a DVD . I saved them as MPEGs because that's the way I started out. I thought I'd just walk through the entire process of selecting/burning a suite of titles.

 

When I imported 3 of them in MyDVD and set properties pretty much as recommended in MyDVD-Help,

I clicked Burn. That gave me:

- capacity 4706.1 MB (that looks about right to me)

- project 9750.8 (woops, we got a little bloated)

 

Apparently MPEG compression isn't as good as the compression used in writing my source DVD originally on my TV-connected DVR. Will importing them in WMV9 yield better compression? Or is there something else I need to do? In general, I'd like to have this process fit all the imported titles onto a blank DVD of the same quality.

 

Regards,

Richard

 

Don't worry about the project size. The thing to remember is that you can get only one hour of best quality video on a single sided DVD; up to slightly less than two hours at reduced quality. In MyDVD, when you go to burn, select best quality rather than fit to disc and create an ISO file. When that file is completed, simply copy that ISO file to a DVD using Disc Copier. It will put that file on the disc at the best quality possible. If it bulks at that, the file is really too big.

 

If you want to put a lot of hours on a DVD, you can do it as DivX files but you'll need a DivX compatible player to play it. Some of those are very inexpensive.

 

No matter what you start with the files are converted to mpg to be playable on a normal DVD player.

[cdanteek]

Avi file has better quality than mpg file.

 

Avi isn't better quality than mpeg, just different.

Only advantage is doing advanced video editing. If one just wants to capture and convert, then capturing to AVI and encoding to mpeg later just takes more time.

 

cd

[malatekid]

Hi,

 

I want to rearrange titles from a bunch of DVDs in order to group related titles and burn them to new DVDs.

 

I just started copying my first title. I saw three format options. I went with the MPEG options. Was that the best choice, or are others better for preserving the fidelity of the original movies?

 

TIA,

Richard

Avi file has better quality than mpg file.

[RLMuller240432]

Avi file has better quality than mpg file.

 

Thanks "Kid",

 

I used AVI on some project many years ago, so that sounds good to me. But I'm using Media Import to copy my titles, and the formats offered under Capture Settings are:

- MPEG (the default)

- DivX

- WMV9

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Video says WMV9 can carry AVI, but if I captured the movies in that format, how would I write them to new DVDs in a way that my DVD players can render them to my TVs?

 

Any further ideas would be most appreciated.

 

TIA,

Richard

[grandpabruce]

Thanks "Kid",

 

I used AVI on some project many years ago, so that sounds good to me. But I'm using Media Import to copy my titles, and the formats offered under Capture Settings are:

- MPEG (the default)

- DivX

- WMV9

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Video says WMV9 can carry AVI, but if I captured the movies in that format, how would I write them to new DVDs in a way that my DVD players can render them to my TVs?

 

Any further ideas would be most appreciated.

 

TIA,

Richard

 

You burn them in MyDVD. MyDVD makes the a compliant DVD movie, which you can play in your set top DVD player.

[cdanteek]

New tactic, move them and bury them?

 

cd