merging 2 avi files

glenpinn,

I don't get the attitude. You are the one who said your criticism was based on the fact that NVE doesn't allow setting the bitrate. All I said was that you were wrong, and that NVE [bold]can[/bold] set the bitrate. Do you still deny it?

Did I say NVE was better than the software you are using? Quote me where.

 

GONE

 

hiya lads..not sure if i want to post this thread but i may aswell,i've tried nero to merge the movie i downloaded coz it seemed to be the easiest for a newbie,have'nt been near my puter in a few days had the flu (everybody say ahhh.)had a problem with nero it would let me import the files but it would'nt let me merge them togather to give the impression there was no break in the movie,i think when i watched it i lost about 20min somewere, i can see thee wee merge icon but as i went through the process it would'nt highlight if you know what i mean..please don't be fighting anymore I'M NOT WELL

PS if any mod's are looking in can i go back to being a newbie...all the best P

 

GONE

 

Sorry to hear you've been sick, [bold]paulsy[/bold].

But no, I don't know what you mean. But let me give you a step by step intro to NVE. By the way, there is a very good user guide in the Nero folders (Start-->All Programs...Nero-->User Guides-->NeroVision Express).

1) Open NVE.

2) Select "Make DVD-->DVD Video".

3) Select "Make Movie." (Note that you can go directly to "Make Movie" from the opening screen. But if your ultimate objective is burn the movie to DVD, you'll want to do step 2) first, otherwise when you get to step 6) below and press "Next" it brings you back to the opening screen, and it is easy to get confused by that.)

This takes you to the main screen where you will load in the files you want to merge. There are three basic areas on this screen: a preview box to the left, a box to the right showing your "media files" (this is called the "Asset View" -- run your mouse over it and check out the tool tip), and a storyboard/timeline view at the bottom.

4) To merge two movies, browse to them, and add them to your project. You'll see a small blue icon at the left of the window pane where you load in your files ("Asset View") with a wee image of a magnifying glass. As you move your mouse over it, a tool tip says "Browse for media." This opens a standard windows dialog where you can locate the files you want to merge, and add them to your project. Note that you have two choices here, you can "browse" or "browse and add to project". I suggest you choose the first. This adds them to the Asset View, but doesn't actually add them to the movie timeline.

5) Once you have the media files you want to merge loaded into the "Asset View" drag them to the storyboard. For simple merges, I prefer the storyboard view. For more complex tasks, you would need to use the timeline view. Once you have them loaded into storyboard view, [bold]switch to timeline view[/bold]. In timeline view, you can drag the marker through the movie to see if anything is missing. You can move the timeline view marker to anywhere you want, and press the "play" button on the preview pane and watch that part of the movie. Between timeline view and the preview pane, you should be able to tell whether the clips you are merging have gaps in them or are missing anything.

6) Once everything looks like you want it, press "Next."

7) The next thing you will probably want to do is to "Make Chapters." If so, select "Create Chapters." I think the process is reasonably intuitive, but if you need more help, just say so.

8) The next screen says "Content" (and underneath "Create and Arrange Titles For Your Project"). You could probably just skip this one, and move onto the next. But do note the "timeline" at the bottom, where you see how much of the dvd is filled up. [bold]This is where you can customize the bitrate to maximize video quality[/bold]. While on this screen, select "More," then "Video Options." A dialog pops up, with a second tab on it labled "DVD-Video". Click on that tab, and you will see a number of options for [bold]Transcoding quality[/bold]. Depending on the size of your movie, you can select one of the predefined settings (High Quality, Long Play, etc., or you can select "Custom." If you select "Custom" you can set the bitrate manually. While there are "bitrate calculators" to help you calculate the bitrate necessary to maximize the space available on the dvd, you can do it pretty quickly here through trial and error by finding the highest bitrate you can without the length of your movie going past the end of the dvd shown in the timeline at the bottom of the current screen.

9) Once you have your dvd video quality settings taken care of, press "Next". (BTW, holding the mouse over the "Next" button tells you what comes next!) The next screen is where you build your menu. Like creating chapters, I'll skip the details on that for now.

10) Now pressing "Next" takes you to a final preview dialog where you can examine the results of your project (test the menu, watch everything play, etc.)

11) At last, pressing "Next" one more time brings us to the dialog where we "burn" our project. Here "burn" is a bit ambiguous. It is really a two-part process. In the first part, the source files have to be transcoded --converted to mpeg2 and encoded as VOB files, along with the other parts of a VIDEO_TS folder. The second part is the actual burn -- copying the created VIDEO_TS folder to the dvd. [bold]I always do the first "burn" to the hard drive.[/bold] Typically, this will be the longest part of the "burn," and can take 2-4 hours depending on the amount of transcoding that must be done. Once this is done, if burned to the hard disk, you have a VIDEO_TS folder with all the components of a dvd movie in it. This can then be burned to the dvd using Nero, or any other application that knows what to do with a VIDEO_TS folder.

Hope this helps, and that you get to feeling better. I think you'll want to concentrate, for now, on step 5, to see if you can see why you think your result is missing something.

Good luck!

 

thanks malcdogg,thanks bazilla,thanks glenpinn.
CAN I GO BACK TO BEING A NEWBIE....all the best P.

 

hi paulsy, appologies on my behalf to u for the nasty posts i sent to your thread, minion and i answered as we should have but we got got annoyed with bazilla because he didnt leave u any input to your question and simply added critisism to minions input and was very rude to him.
unfortunaltely i got angry because quite simply i wont tolerate people like him, and all he does it try to undermine everything posted in here as if we arent allowed to make mistakes ourselves.
im possibly being banned anyway for my private pm's to bazilla because he did a crybaby act and reported my pm's to A/D so if im not about, good luck m8.
if u want, i have my own dvd creators guide for newbies, i have it available any time u want it, ive sent this guide to hundreds of A/D users and all have found it a great and valuable newbies guide to making a dvd videos. i even have reference to all the software i use with links to where you can get trial versions of all the software i use. if u want a copy, send me a pm with your email address and ill get it to you.
i would post my email addy here but dont think its allowed to be done, so pm me and its yours m8.

again, u have my appology, im not sucking up to anyone here, i was rude for disrupting your thread, as was bazilla (who will get away with his actions anyway, even tho he was the one to incite all this mess by the way he acts in this forum) but i wont take anything back, id do it again if need be, and if im banned from here then thats it, i wont be losing any sleep over it, there are thousands of forums like this and this just happens to be one of the better ones around and would be better if not for the likes of bazilla.

have a nice day.....GLEN

 

hey thanks for the thanks paulsy.