 | DVDA requires an MPEG2 video file with the *.mpg file extension
and audio file with *.ac3 or *.wav extension.
In this example, the MPEG2 source file was encoded as *.mpv from
Cinema Craft Encoder (CCE). If you already have a streaming
mpeg2 file with the *.mpg file extension then you can skip steps one
through four. |
| -STEP-1 Rename the *.mpv file to *.m2v and
if the movie has film frame rate of 23.976 fps then you will need to
run Pulldown in order to make the authoring program believe that the
frame rate of the movie is 29.97 fps. You can refer to the section on
how to run Pulldown by referring to my guide
here. |
| -STEP-2 Open TMPGE.
This preliminary step is to multiplex the video portion of the movie.
Close the wizard if it opens up and click on File ->
MPEG Tools |
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| STEP-3 Next select
Simple Multiplex -> MPEG-2 Program (VBR) |
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| STEP-4 Next import
video -> import audio -> select output
folder. Make sure that that the video and audio files have
the same name with a different file extension and TMPGE MPEG Tools
will automatically add the audio file after you add the video and will
name and select the output file. The output file will have the
*.mpg extension. Multiplexing will take about 10 minutes
if you are working with approximately 4.37 GB of data. |
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| STEP-5 Next open DVDA
and click Control + N and the following screen will open. Select
single movie and then click OK. |
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| STEP-6 After pressing
OK, you will be prompted to add the media files that you want to burn
to DVD. If you followed my AVI to DVD guide or another guide
that describes you how to prepare a DVD compliant MPEG2, it will
ultimately save you a lot of time when preparing the media for DVD
burning. If you happen to be importing an MPEG1 or SVCD MPEG,
DVDA can still handle it but will re-encode the movie as DVD compliant
and you may not like the results of using DVDA to encode the movie.
In this case, I'm importing the MPEG file that was multiplexed earlier
on the video line and the AC3 file as the audio portion.
Although the MPEG contains audio, DVDA will ignore the audio from the
MPEG and will use the separate AC3 audio. If there is any doubt
about differentiating the video and audio source you can first
add the video portion only by click on the bottom file and instead of
selecting video and audio streams, just select video streams and open
the mpeg file first. Then from the main program screen select the
audio tab and add the ac3 file. The following screen
shows what you can expect to see after pressing ok on the previous
screen. |
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| STEP-7 Now it is time
to make the chapters and to burn the DVD. Below is the main
DVDA screen. Chapters are quickly made by double clicking on the
portion of the movie that you would like to see a chapter. When
you first open DVDA the entire movie will be condensed within just a
few frames as you can see below. You can expand this view out as
far as you want to see individual frames but for adding chapters this
is not necessary. Each video square below represents
approximately thirty minutes of video. When you get to
step 8, the chapters will be shown using a different movie. This
is because I make these guides as I'm actually doing the video
authoring and I forgot to take a screen shot of the chapter markings
for the current movie. |
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| STEP-8 Move the mouse
along the timeline and double click each spot that you want to insert
a chapter. An orange line will appear at the point that you double
clicked and this point will represent a chapter. You can insert
up to 99 chapters per movie. I have not been to specific in
adding chapters at evenly spaced intervals my intent was to be able to
start watching a movie again basically from the same point in the
event of accidentally hitting the restart button on my remote
control. I did this a couple of times and it was a real pain
trying to slowly roll through the movie to get to the point where I
left off. It must have take half an hour last time I made this
mistake. After inserting the chapters that you want, DVDA will
look like the show the below listed screen. |
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| STEP-9 Now we are
ready to make the DVD. Before playing, press the preview button and
make sure that the audio and video are synchronized. Watch the
video at the beginning middle and end. The video will start
playing at which ever point you click on the time line. By
pressing preview the following screen will appear. |
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| Before burning, use the buttons to check all portions of the
movie. Press close after reviewing the movie and to return
to the main program. I you are satisfied you can move to the
next step. |
| STEP-10 Press
the Make DVD button on the following
screen. |
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| STEP-11 Next press
the Prepare and Burn button on the
following screen. |
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| After pressing Prepare and Burn press
Next > and the following screen will
appear. |
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| The screen shown above is where you will store the *.vob files
produced by the authoring program prior to burning the DVD.
Press Next > and the following screen
will appear. |
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| There are no error messages. Some of the common errors that
may occur at this time will delay the project because re-encoding maybe
necessary. Some of the common errors include video resolution
that does not adhere to DVD specifications, non-DVD compliant audio
and video size greater than 4.7GB. If you receive any error
messages, don't be alarmed because DVD will take care of them for you
by re-encoding the video. If you prepare DVD compliant MPEG2
files, no re-encoding should be necessary. Re-encoding could affect
the overall quality of the final production. If you are
satisfied, press Next > and the following
screen will appear. |
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| Press Finish and the creation of *.vob's and DVD burning will
follow. It will take about 15 minutes for authoring to be
complete and another 7.5 minutes to 1 hour for burning of the DVD
depending on the speed of the DVD burner. Most likely you will
be able to burn faster than I can because I still use a first
generation DVD burner and the new DVD burning hard ware is much faster
than my 18month old hardware. |
| Upon completion, the following screen will appear and the DVD will
auto-eject. |
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| Pop your DVD into your DVD Player and see if it worked!!! |
