Created Video File-Later Burning?

sportswizdan · Post by **sportswizdan** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:41 am

Hi... I just want to thank all of you expierienced people on here for giving your time and knowledge. It really helps us that are just learning. I am making alot of different projects at once. So I would like to know if after I "create and render my MPEG video file" Can I just copy these files to a seperate folder and when Im ready to burn my DVD go to "add video" and select it from that folder? Also, I dont have to keep the vsp files anymore because the newly rendered Mpeg file is totally seperate from them...correct??? And if I want to burn them at a later time, do I have to burn them with Video Studio or can I burn these created MPEG's with "other" burning programs?

Thanks, Dan

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:59 am

Yes, you can keep just the MPEG files, move them around, and even burn them using another program.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:29 am

Don't forget though, just burning an mpeg file to a DVD disk, will not allow you to play this on any DVD player of your choice. In order to play on stand alone players, your mpeg file must be authored to DVD. You are however, not tied into ULEAD programs with that. Any DVD compliant mpeg file can be authored to disk using any authoring/burning software.

One more thing, sportswizdan, we apreciate your apreciation of our time, but believe me, while we can help less experienced folk out there, we can also learn a thing or two along the lines. Just because we don't have a particular problem right now, does not mean that we won't encounter it later. Also, by reading someone elses response and, hopefully solution to a problem, we broaden our knowledge. There is always going to be someone out there who knows more than you do. That goes for all of us. In this context, I also apreciate everyone elses time and willingness to share their knowledge.

sportswizdan · Post by **sportswizdan** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:45 am

Hi, once my captured AVI file is taken and created and rendered into a MPEG Video file through the DVD template... it is DVD compliant...Correct???
I just want to make sure I have this straight. Thanks again!

Dan

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:18 am

The MPEG file will be DVD-compliant, but just having an MPEG file on a DVD doesn't make it playable on the vast majority of DVD players -- that's what heinz-oz was saying.

In order for it to play, the disk must be authored correctly, which requires additional files and directories to be created on the DVD. That's what the "Create Disk" step does.

However, this is only the final step of authoring a DVD, and having the MPEG file is the most time and space consuming part, so by all means, create the MPEG files, and move on until you are ready to create that masterpiece.

Peta · Post by **Peta** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:08 am

I have stopped using the "create video file" because I was having problems of "elongated images and footage" when I did, regardless of "keeping aspect ratio". I discovered by going straight from final editing to 'creating disc' the elongation (looked like 16:9) issue went away.
Peta

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:56 pm

Peta,
IMHO, you have chosen the wrong way to solve your aspect ratio problem - and that way is probably going to cause you grief in the future.

I suggest that you follow the method in the top sticky post and pay particular attention to the selection of aspect ratio property, beginning with the capture phase and preserving that property value thru the Edit, Create Video, and Burn stages.
John

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:17 pm

Sportswizdan -- just an extra footnote. Once you have your DVD-compliant mpeg-2 file and have opened the burning module in VS 7/8/9, remember that you should open the little cog-wheel icon in the bottom left of screen and make sure that the 'Do not convert compliant MPEG files' is checked. This will avoid both a major increase in the time taken to produce your disc, and also potential problems as your compliant file is re-rendered.

gordon_fan_24 · Post by **gordon_fan_24** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:34 pm

Peta wrote:I have stopped using the "create video file" because I was having problems of "elongated images and footage" when I did, regardless of "keeping aspect ratio". I discovered by going straight from final editing to 'creating disc' the elongation (looked like 16:9) issue went away.
Peta

I have the same problem when viewing it in Windows media player, that is a bug in video studio 9, when you install it, media player changes the aspect ratio to something like 8:5, so it appears "elongated", but when you burn to DVD the problem is gone.