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Gryffydh
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7. October 2002 @ 19:04 |
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Hiya, I'm completely new to burning movie files, and not that great at burning in general :) So, that said, I have too many movies on my harddrive and need to burn them onto CD's. I want to be able to watch them later. I found this site looking for tutorials and have read several (very helpful! I got TMPGEnc Plus), but now I don't know what to do. Which is the best option to choose for a movie? As far as I can tell, it is MPEG "Layer 3" (??), 101 minutes running time (700 MB), 23.976 frames/sec, and 464x256, 24 bits. I read through the options but didn't see one with a big enough resolution, or does this matter? Any help would be much appreciated!
Oh.. I have 700 MB blank CDr's up to 32x compatible, and I think my burning goes up to 8x. It's kinda old =^_^=
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wonderboy
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7. October 2002 @ 19:17 |
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well always nice to have a newbie on and answer questions for ya..as far as the best setting it depends on what kind of movie and how many frames it is. If you are only going to watch them on your computer you can burn them out as a regular data cd. I take it you have avi's(divx) and if you want to convert them use this guide
http://www.afterdawn.com/articles/archive/divx_with_subtitles_to_vcd.cfm
Are you also looking for a certain setting or resolution?
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Gryffydh
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7. October 2002 @ 19:43 |
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I think I got it. The first time I read that tutorial, I missed paragraphs because the images were floating on top of the text. But I changed my screen resolution so now I can see it - lol.. I'm not too bright with these things, ok?? =^_^=
Yeah, I just want to watch them on my computer. I tried burning it with Nero, but the movie file was too big to fit on one disk. So I'm trying to make it smaller. I'm not sure what format it is... the details said "MPEG" but in TMPGEnc it says "avi". So. I guess so? I don't know what this all means :D
I'm not sure what size I want.. I just.. want to be able to play it on my computer from a CD and not loose any (if possible! or at least, not very much..) quality.
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wonderboy
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7. October 2002 @ 22:17 |
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if you dont want to lose as much ...svcd. how big is the avi ?or mpg? sounds weird....is it a long movie? hum are you sure you have 700mb discs? humm it may be a little more then 700mbs you might want to try overburning by adjusting settings in nero (i dont have nero in front of me to go into detail...)if you do decide to encode it do it in svcd and use other settings in tmpgenc and split the movie .......(dont have tmpgenc to go into detail)...you are smarter then you think ....I'm sure you can do it. when I first came to this forum I thought encoding with nero was cool. =)
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Gryffydh
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8. October 2002 @ 10:28 |
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I think I'm burning it as svcd. Err.. or maybe just vcd. Is there a lot of difference in quality? How do I get my .avi file to be a mpeg2 instead of an mpeg1, or can I burn an svcd with an mpeg1? The movie is 101 minutes long. My CDs hold 700MB, but I think the movie is a bit more than that. That's why I need it off my harddrive so bad! =^_^=;;
What's overburning? Is that where you make it go into the yellow? I tried putting the movie onto a data CD just plain at first, and it went way over into the red. I'll probably end up splitting it onto 2 CD's.
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Gryffydh
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8. October 2002 @ 14:04 |
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Ack! I had a runtime error and it stopped converting. Now what do I do??
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wonderboy
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8. October 2002 @ 16:12 |
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Gryffydh
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8. October 2002 @ 16:56 |
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Neato! Thanks a bunch :) This looks much easier.
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Gryffydh
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8. October 2002 @ 17:18 |
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Ok, I split the movie, and it gave me a warning that the sound might be off. So I checked, and it was, so the program said that to avoid this I'd have to decompress it into WAV form and then recompress it. Help!! Is there an easy way to just stuff this thing on a disk and get it off my harddrive??
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VCDjunkie
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8. October 2002 @ 19:00 |
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all this splitting and everything is giving me a headache.. a splitting headache.. heh. ;-) seriously though, do you want to play these back from a stand alone DVD player, or do you just want the file burned to cd to free up hard drive space, and only plan to play back on your PC ???
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wonderboy
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8. October 2002 @ 19:10 |
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 8. October 2002 @ 19:10
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Gryffydh
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8. October 2002 @ 19:48 |
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I really just want to be able to play them again later on my PC. I don't even have a DVD player... and if I ever get one, I think I'd buy the DVD! =^_^=
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VCDjunkie
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8. October 2002 @ 19:59 |
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Don't get me wrong here I don't mean to offend you or anything, the name of the forum you posted this thread to is called VCD/SVCD. I think this is complicating matters for you, since your only objective is to free hard drive space while not losing any quality of the video..
Can't you just create a data cd compilation using Nero, and drag & drop your video file(s) into the compilation, then burning this to cd? seems like a bit much to re-encode the video since that would double the size of the original video, taking up hours of CPU time to encode, then creating the need for more CD-R's just to watch them on your pc.
Do yourself this favor, just use Nero and create a new data cd. I'm off to bed now since my monitor is starting to get blurry.. or is that my eyes ??
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Gryffydh
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8. October 2002 @ 20:20 |
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I've tried that. Several times. The reason I came here looking how to compress or split a file is because the movie file is too big to fit onto one disk, even with 'overburning'. It's over 700 MB. And I don't have and CDr's with more than 700 MB.
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VCDjunkie
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8. October 2002 @ 20:24 |
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VCDjunkie
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8. October 2002 @ 20:30 |
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open virtual dub, click on audio, then click full processing mode.. then click audio, compression and select MPEG Layer 3, and choose whatever bitrate you want. Next, click audio, click on conversion, and select 44100hz high quality 16bit stereo. click video, select direct stream copy. (no need to re-encode the video since it is the audio that is not compliant, possibly VBR.. anyhow, after you go through all of this, you will have an .avi file you can use that guide to split..
Hope this helps!
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Gryffydh
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8. October 2002 @ 20:33 |
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Thank you, I'll try it :)
I should just buy this movie.... lol
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Gryffydh
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8. October 2002 @ 20:45 |
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It said "Error: Requested compression is not possible"
*sobs*
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krippler
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13. October 2002 @ 00:11 |
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Okay, I'm going to assume that you know the files you are using are in fact .avi and are in divx format. I've been using virtual dub for a long time cutting up credits in my divx to reduce their size. It's always worked for me and I use http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/join-split-avi.htm
Give this site a try. I also suggest that you have all your video/audio codecs installed. Ex. FHG Radium Codec (audio)
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Gryffydh
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13. October 2002 @ 11:24 |
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Um. What's a codec?
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wonderboy
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14. October 2002 @ 16:44 |
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codec is a compression decompression protocol...it can be used to compress video or to play it (decompress).
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Shir32
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26. November 2002 @ 12:48 |
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real simple i do this all the time use your current burner to burn as a data cd. whalla. that's it that's all you have to do and usually depending on size i can get 2 movies on one 700mb cd. it is that simple really i'm dumb and i do it all the time. it will only play in you pc though. good luck
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andy101
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23. December 2002 @ 04:44 |
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hi all hope you all have a good crimbo :-)
what it ia i am useing TMPGEnc Plus 2 convert a divx film 2 mpeg2 so i can play it on my dvd ,
but it seems 2 be taking along time 2 convert it and its only half the film as i have split it , here is the spec in witch i am working with its a divx film size is 480 x 576
aspect ratio is4:3
frame rate 25fps
and for half the film its takining 15 hours 2 convert is this right
and no i dont have a poor computer :-)
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