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Hi, I'm totally at a loss, and Iam in desprite need of some help.
Ok, I'll do my best to explain what I'm doing and what I want the end result to be.
The project that I'm working on is to get a tv series of 102 onto DVD. Currently I have about 60 shows done and they are on 28 blank DVD's, I can only get 2 shows on each DVD, and the shows are 30 min each and as I'm sure you know blank DVD's are very expensive. I did some searching and I found a guy who has a series of 120 shows on only 10 dvd's. I emailed him and asked him how to do it and he's the one who recommended me to this board, he says his tip is to get is the smallest file size with the best quality before I encode for the DVD.
He said that the DVD's need to be 720x480 and the sound has to be 48mhz. He said the programs that he uses are TMPG, and DVD Movie Factor 2. He told me he takes his mpegs into TMPG and creates them for vcd's then he says he takes em into the Movie Factor.
Recommending those products to me were a big help but needless to say I had alot of q's and he hasn't wrote me back so I figured I'd come here and hope someone here can help me.
I dl'ed the TMPG I think it was the 30-day trial, so I don't know if I'll get all the features on it or not. I opened it and found the 2 shows that I recorded from my VCR to my hard drive and tried to open them in the TMPG and it didn't work I got some kinda error msg everytime I tried it.
What I do to burn a DVD is this. I have the HP Media Center M370n. I have my VCR hooked up the tower and I open the Media Center and watch play the tape in it and I record the show to my computer thru the Media Center program. Then they have the Showbiz 2 already installed on the computer so I go there and open the shows and stuff and add the menus and such and then I burn the DVD, as I said I can only fit 2 shows on each blank DVD. And that is how I do it.
I have no clue how to do anything else or what programs to use. I read thru the board and I saw all these different programs listed with all these abbreviations that I have no clue what they are.
I have no clue why my saved shows won't open in the TMPG and if they did what I'd have to do next, I don't know how to reduce the size of the shows like he told me, I don't know how to do any of it.
I've seen alot of ppl from what I read and he even said something about VCD's, what are they? Why are they needed when making DVD's ?
Is there more programs I'll need? Once I have my shows saved on my computer after I record them there what do I do, what program do I use to reduce the size or whatever I'd have to do to get more shows onto one blank DVD instead of just 2 as I always get?
Please someone help me. I have no clue what I'm doing
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