Dvd Help
OK guys, I need help real fast.
I have two .mpg movies that I need to put on a dvd. I have idvd, but I don't want to have any silly themes, I just want to put the two videos on the dvd, with no menu. If I have to have a menu, I guess I can live with it. Is there a way I can drag and drop the files to the disk, and just skip using software?
I tried converting the videos the mpeg-4 so I can use them in idvd, but the quality looked horrible, and there was no sound. I have quicktime pro, and idvd 5.0.1 (which doesn't have the magic idvd).
I need to have these on a dvd by 7 tonight, so any help is GREATLY appreciated. I am really stuck here.
THANK YOU!!
I have two .mpg movies that I need to put on a dvd. I have idvd, but I don't want to have any silly themes, I just want to put the two videos on the dvd, with no menu. If I have to have a menu, I guess I can live with it. Is there a way I can drag and drop the files to the disk, and just skip using software?
I tried converting the videos the mpeg-4 so I can use them in idvd, but the quality looked horrible, and there was no sound. I have quicktime pro, and idvd 5.0.1 (which doesn't have the magic idvd).
I need to have these on a dvd by 7 tonight, so any help is GREATLY appreciated. I am really stuck here.
THANK YOU!!
Comments
Quicktime doesn't export mpegs with sound because mpegs multiplex audio and video together.
Anyway, you may have issues with the scale of the movie if the mpeg is a non-standard resolution. If you need to add black bars, you'd be best exporting to a high quality format from MPEG Streamclip like DV or Mpeg-4 and scaling inside Quicktime Pro.
Mpeg-4 is actually great quality if you set the bitrate high enough. What you may be seeing in imovie is a lower quality preview. It has an option to play video at a lower quality so I don't know if that's what's happening.
Once you have the two movies, export to idvd. You should be able to get it to play without a menu by putting the encoded movie into the section for disc content that is played automatically and looping it but this loops the movie around when it's done so you may want to add some blank space to the end of the movie in imovie.
Normally for DVD encoding, I'd suggest using ffmpegx but it can cause a lot of problems if you are in a hurry. In this case I'd say go for MPEG Streamclip ( http://www.squared5.com/ ). This will allow you to export the MPEGs with audio to DV for use in imovie (you may need to set the segment option in the DV export so it supports imovie).
Quicktime doesn't export mpegs with sound because mpegs multiplex audio and video together.
Anyway, you may have issues with the scale of the movie if the mpeg is a non-standard resolution. If you need to add black bars, you'd be best exporting to a high quality format from MPEG Streamclip like DV or Mpeg-4 and scaling inside Quicktime Pro.
Mpeg-4 is actually great quality if you set the bitrate high enough. What you may be seeing in imovie is a lower quality preview. It has an option to play video at a lower quality so I don't know if that's what's happening.
Once you have the two movies, export to idvd. You should be able to get it to play without a menu by putting the encoded movie into the section for disc content that is played automatically and looping it but this loops the movie around when it's done so you may want to add some blank space to the end of the movie in imovie.
I currently have a large video on my hard drive in pm4 format, as well as video_ts format. I got it into mp4 using a couple of different formats, ending with isquint. Is there a way to make it small enough to fit on a DVD? Last attempt at IDVD, it kept telling me it was to large....
I currently have a large video on my hard drive in pm4 format, as well as video_ts format. I got it into mp4 using a couple of different formats, ending with isquint. Is there a way to make it small enough to fit on a DVD? Last attempt at IDVD, it kept telling me it was to large....
idvd uses a certain bitrate to maintain quality so it's hard to fit long movies on it. Compressing down to mp4 and using idvd won't help because it uses the same bitrate again. It's a similar deal with aiff CDs. Even if you compress audio to m4a, when you burn an audio CD, you will still only get 80 minutes on it.
Fortunately, there are 3rd party tools to let you compress DVDs using a lower bitrate so you can fit more onto a DVD. The best compressors to use that maintain quality are called requantizers and they are fast. I use DVD2one as it maintains chapters and menus. You just drop a video_ts onto it and it makes it fit onto a single layer disc. It actually creates a disc image, which you can burn with Disk Utility.
You can probably do this after an idvd stage too if you wanted a fancy menu from idvd. You would just get idvd to save as a disc image and then use DVD2one to requantize the video_ts that is stored on the image.