Hey I am new to this site, and I need some help. I got these anime episode on my hard drive and I would like to know, how to encode them and put them on a DVD R. I saw a DVD with 15 naruto episode on them, how could I pull this off. How in the would did they encode 15 of them and get them on one disk. I would love a detail step or the right guides need to pull this off. A very gratefully anime lover
Read a tutorial in http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/ .
Choose a bitrate value for the encoded movies so that 15 of them fit on a DVD (15 * X = 4.7 GB so 1 movie = 313 MB (I thin it would be too small; try to fit less movies or movies with a smaller resolution than DVD - like SVCD, which are 480x480/576 and are encoder VBR 1150-2500 kbps instead of up to 9000 kbps; this unless you own a dual-layer recorder, so that you can encode a movie in 600 MB).
Author the 15 movies in a DVD image. Many application are available, read again http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/. Burn them. Don't use Nero, which will try fill a DVD with a single movie, encoding it with a extremely high bitrate.
O.K this is still new to me, but what does the value of x stand for and when you said that it should be 480x480/576 what does 576 stand for. Which is the best encoder to use and is there one that can do all 15 at one time. Thanks alot for the help
720x480 DVD NTSC
720x576 DVD PAL
about 120' on a 4.7 DVD-R
480x480 SVCD NTSC
480x576 SVCD PAL
about 55' on a 80' CD-R
352x240 SVCD NTSC
352x288 SVCD PAL
83' on a CD-R
Please note: DVD and SVCD are VBR (Variable Bit Rate), so the word 'about' in the media room for a movie.
But remember: garbage in = garbage out. Don't expect great results from making a DVD from a 300 MB (AVI) movie.
Encoder:
the best is CCE, but it's the most difficult (and expensive).
TMPGenc is very very good, but a little slow.
Remember: after the 'encoding' phase, you need to 'author' the movies in a DVD . The only application which allows to put movies in a DVD is DVD Lab, and if you don't use DVD format but (S)VCD format you can fit many movies.
