Authoring two DVDs to one?
Hi guys, I have a 4 DVD collection box of Kids programmes for my children and I wanted to back them up. I wanted to squeeze the 4 DVD's down to 2 DVD's.
I checked them all and they are 4 Gig in size. I was trying to keep the original menus and sort of making a new VTS menu that would point the original menus of both the DVDs i wish to compress. I tried using DVDShrink to squeeze them down to size and maybe fit them both on one DVDR. Is there a way to import the menus into DVD-Lab? Also would it be better for me to compress the DVD's main features with KDVD and try importing the menu's after that? |
Re: Authoring 2 DVD's to one
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4 DVDs recompressed to 1 DVD with DVDShrink 8O You won't like the result at all :!: It's better to recompress. -kwag |
Thanks for the reply Kwag i appreciate your input.
I want to convert 4 DVD to 2 DVD as opposed to putting all 4 DVD's to one as I do want to maintain some quality. If I do a 2DVD to 1DVD comression is it possible to keep the original menus and import them into DVDLab and make a main VTS menu that links to the 2 menus for the relative movies. :) |
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Recompress, recompress, recompress :lol: -kwag |
Lol, I get the message thanks again Kwag I will recompress with KDVD. :D
Is it best to use CCE for KDVD? Is Calcumatic the best way to predict the final size of both DVD's? |
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CCE is an encoder. KDVD is a format/method specification :!: If you meant CCE or TMPEG, for low bitrates TMPEG will give you better results. As you are trying to put teo movies on one DVD, I would use TMPEG with KDVD Full D-1 template, and change the resolution to 704x480 with 2 overscan blocks. Use MovieStacket to get your correct values, and also use the MA script. Quote:
It will give you the correct average bitrate. If you meant CQMatic, well, it's a russian roulette :lol: 90% of the times, you'll get your correct file size. The other 10%, it will fail miserably, thanks to TMPEG's non-linear CQ curve. If you have a lot of time to spare and because your target is MPEG-2, and you have CCE, then by all means go 2-pass with CCE so you get your target file size correct. Even TMPEG doesn't work correctly in 2-pass mode, as recently reported :twisted: -kwag |
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Thanks for the info guys much appreciated.
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I have the latest MovieStacker and it reports my source as being 576 x 320 what aspect ratio would you recommend? Keep the same ratio? Thanks in advance. :) Quote:
I know TMPGEnc is better for Mpeg1 but I always thought Mpeg2 was better in CCE? I would use Vmesquita's Mencoder-Me but im not sure how to predict with that and what the final quality would be like. :) EDIT: How come MovieStacker always reports my D2v file as a XVCD in the source? I have to untick GripFit and change it to DVD. Any ideas :?: |
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Hey guys i dont understand whats happening with the new MovieStacker.
I loaded a DivX I made ages ago which has a Res of 352 x 288 just to test MS. However now when I use my d2v from my DVD source is stays at 352 x 288 even though I know my DVD source is 720 x 576 is there something wrong with my d2v file :?: |
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-kwag |
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