I am still new to burning my own Movies,however I have a good collection now. My problem; "Fast and the Furious" approx 712k of meg as an AVI. The quality of this film is obviously high. From what I have tried usineg Tmpegenc is that the file is just to big. I encoded to WMV first but for some reason the file became more than five times the size. then when trying tmpegenc I could not for the life of me, split it less than about ten times to make it fit. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to stick to downloading lower meg files from Kazaa?
*off-topic rant* Ungh, even 712MB full-length movie is __NOT__ good quality, IMHO -- much rather the opposite, whether DivX, XviD or whatever. *off-topic rant ends* Anyway, your desire is probably to burn the movie to CD so it works on your DVD player, huh? The quality WILL drop -- it always does, when we're playing with lossy formats. Next thing you need to understand is that VCD has a constant bitrate that can't be changed -- one CD can take 74mins and not more -- and as most of the movies are around 100mins, VCD needs two CDs. Always. But hey, Cs cost like $0.05 a piece, so who cares. Ok, we have the 'AVI to VCD' guide available in our article section, please check it from there -- if you don't need subtitles, simply skip the subtitle parts and go directly to the "good stuff" -- TMPGEnc part.
To split large avi files,what i did was use Avi splitter. split the movie into two parts.takes about 30 seconds. then use Nero to convert into VCD.Takes about 1hour 30 for each part. you can get Avi splitter just type it in the google search engine.
twin999: Just to mention this, once again -- Nero's internal encoder produces something that can't be really described accurately with English, but the best bet is "sh*t". TMPGEnc's quality beats Nero's hands down.
