Chapters for Each Movie?

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  1. t3mp3st

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    I'm hoping I can explain what I'm asking correctly here...what I want to do is burn multiple home movies to a DVD-R, but have a selection screen at the start to choose the movies I wish to view. I tried burning some short clips I made with Winavi, but I have to fast forward through the whole disc to get to later sections. Is there a program that will allow me to do this? I am generally using Avi files...ranging anywhere from 400megs to 800megs. Thanks.
     
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    You'll need an authoring program. There are many about ranging from NeroVision Express of the Nero Suite to TMPGEnc Author and many much more elaborate programs. The Nero Suite has a free trial period and TMPGEnc Author used to as well. While Nero can convert AVIs to DVD compliant files with the right codecs installed, many recommend TFM (the film machine). I don't so much of this stuff, so I'll just pass along their recommendation.
     
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    Thanks for the response..I downloaded TMPGEnc, the only thing I don't like is that it only works with DVD or mpeg files. I tried converting them from AVI to MPEG with Winavi but it went from 4.2Gigs to about 15Gigs after conversion. Any other recommendations?
     
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    Is that 15GB for a single video? If so you'll have to Shrink it down with DVD Shrink or Nero Recode or some other transcoder. I'm assuming you have MPEG2 files now after the conversion so you'll need to transcode to MPEG4.
     
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    At 15 gigs you may have to run it throug shrink twice. Quality may suffer.
     
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    The 15Gigs was for a number of clips...but it about tripled in size from converting it. I did the conversion using Winavi..but i converted from AVI to DVD format. Now if I'm converting to MPEG, why do I need to transcode to MPEG4, and what program would you recommend for doing that?
     
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    First you would probably benefit from reducing the number of clips per DVD. Why not just divide 'em up among several DVDs. Using transcoders like DVD Shrink and Nero or others to get from 15GB down to whatever could fit on your media of choice will result in quite a loss of video quality. Generally a single layer disk (4.35GB usuable) can hold 2 hours worth of respectable quality video, a double (dual) layer disk twice that amount.
     
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