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What is best program to create a DVD from any video file?
superboyac:
Miles, thanks for the FAVC suggestion. I'm using it right now. I hope it works well. It's one of the very few programs out there that offered a SIMPLE solution to creating a DVD from regular video files. Man. Why do all of them have to be so complicated? I tried several that were wizard-like, simple solutions, but they were all buggy, slow, or couldn't handle some file or other. FAVC is working well so far (I'm in the middle of crating my first disc).
Are there any other nice, simple solutions out there? Here are my simple requirements:
1) Can handle conversion of multiple files at once (i.e. batch)
2) Drag/drop or similarly simple file choosing
3) Creates a menu background based on a simple image file I can easily replace
4) Simple options to choose thumbnail image, titles
5) Simple options as to whether I want a menu or not
6) Don't make me figure out a bunch of stuff about codecs, filters, technobabble
7) DON'T have audio/video syncing issues
MilesAhead:
The batch requirement is usually the fly in the ointment.
I haven't experimented much with "convert from any to any" type apps. So my suggestions would be highly dependent on the input.
Another program that has easy menu creation is
SVCD2DVD. It's not free. Around $20 last time I checked.
The menu maker is fun to use. You can choose background image.
Just take any image and save it as .jpg 720x576. I have some fractal
flames I made that are good for backgrounds.
SVCD2DVD is ffmpeg based. I tend to favor apps that use HC encode for DVD output. Although DVD Flick is not bad and pretty easy to use.
If your input is BluRay I recommend BD Rebuilder. It can now output standard DVD, mkv or a compressed disc structure. It's free and gives good results.
I would look on videohelp.com for "batch adapters"
I think some guy named Superman made one for HC encode.
I didn't mess around with it enough to figure it out though.
superboyac:
Miles, I finished that FAVC dvd i was making, and it was great. That's super easy and nice. I love it. I'm going to stick with that unless there's something obviously better. I hate to get all Apple on people here, but FAVC "just works". You pick your video files, edit the titles if you choose, and press the button. Seriously.
Miles is all over those forums, I keep seeing your avatar. Good stuff, thanks for all the help.
MilesAhead:
Miles, I finished that FAVC dvd i was making, and it was great. That's super easy and nice. I love it. I'm going to stick with that unless there's something obviously better. I hate to get all Apple on people here, but FAVC "just works". You pick your video files, edit the titles if you choose, and press the button. Seriously.
Miles is all over those forums, I keep seeing your avatar. Good stuff, thanks for all the help.
-superboyac (November 15, 2010, 08:55 AM)
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Sure thing. One proviso on FAVC, I would check the Keep box in the Working Files. I don't know why, but every now and then it doesn't finish the DVD authoring. Sometimes I get a dvd that's a few minutes short. So check your output. Most of the time if it's broken, you can just take the video and audio files(the .m2v and .ac3) from the Working Files and use an authoring program like DVDAuthorGui to save your work.
Seems like I'd get that maybe 1 run out of 10. But then I tend to have worse luck than most. Hopefully it will work for you 99% of the time. :)
MilesAhead:
yes nice but i think Nero software is good for write video file in dvd
-johnmarsh (November 15, 2010, 02:37 AM)
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I bought Nero Burning Rom Ultra v. 6.
After awhile though, the assumptions it makes starts to get in the way if you do a lot of video and learn more about how you want to put things together. It assumes you want to take sources and get a DVD. For example, if you just want to burn a data dvd with a bunch of .avi files on it because your DVD player can play .avi and .divx, you may find it insists on trying to convert each file to a dvd title and so tells you it can't fit them all on one disk.
There are lots of different tools and no one "best" for most things. In fact on some forums they have rules against asking "what's the best..." because it starts too many arguments. If you keep doing it, they ban you. :)
Nothing wrong with using Nero if it fits your needs for the most part. Only thing it has some quirks that make it less likely to peacefully coexist with other burning tools. Every time I installed it the first thing I did was make sure I got rid of InCD. Totally useless software. Just burn an erasable as if it was a CDR if you want to use erasables for data. You'll see on a lot of forums if somebody has a burning issue and they have Nero the first question asked is, "do you have InCD installed?" Removing it is 90% of the fixes.
I liked Nero when I was burning SVCD discs. The menu tool was very easy to use and the best I knew about at the time. It's not a bad way to start. Trouble with video is you can mess with it for years and still not know that much about the file formats and I-frames and all the rest of it unless you are writing software that reads those files or are very heavy into using AviSynth filters or something. It's a deep subject and a pita generally. :)
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