How to make a DVD
This tutorial will assist people in creating their own home movie DVDs so that it can be played on a stand-alone DVD player. Many tutorials out there have multiple programs and complicated steps. This tutorial is simple, easy and only requires one program. You will need the following program: Sony DVD Architect.
1) Open DVD Architect, import your clip into the right window where you see a menu tree item .
2) Delete the menu tree once you have the clip in there.
3) At the top of the software, locate: Make DVD
4) Select Burn, then select an path in which you will want to save your DVD folders, the video-ts and audio-ts. (These are the folders that will be copied onto the disc, have at least 10GB of space available)
5) Select next, then next again until you see at the top "select burn paramters"
6) Place the DVD into your DVD Writer. Name your DVD select the burn speed. (I normally choose 4X or 8X) Then select finish. (Architect will compress your movie into MPEG-2 first if it doesn't comply with the MPEG-2 video stream, it will then create the DVD folders needed to be burned onto the disc)
7) Test out your DVD by placing it into your TV stand-alone player, or play it with your computer with another DVD player software such as Power DVD.
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Extracting a clip from a DVD
This tutorial will show you how to extract or take a clip from a DVD disc. You will need a DVD ROM on your computer and the Squared 5 software.
1. Put the DVD into your DVD ROM and open the drive, copy the video_ts folder from your DVD ROM onto your hard drive
2. Open Squared 5.
3. Load your video into squared 5 by selecting File->Open files. Select the video_ts folder where you've just copied it onto your hard drive from.
4. You will see several DVD files in that folder. Right click and view as details. Arrange it by the size. Select the file "VTS_01_1" If you have more then the same group of that for example: "VTS_01_2,VTS_01_3,VTS_01_4" Squared 5 will ask you whether you want to open all. Select open all to review the entire movie clip. It might ask to fix audio break points. Select Fix. Scrow through the video to find your clip that you want to convert to MPEG
5. If you want the entire video convert to MPEG, skip this step. Otherwise, select Edit->Select In. You have chosen the beginning of your clip. Now choose the ending of your clip by scrolling to the point where you want the clip to end and select Edit->Select Out.
6. Select File->Convert to MPEG. Choose a name and place you want to save your MPEG. Click Save.
7. Square 5 will now compress the video into the MPEG format. Once its completed, you'll be able to view it without the disc and it will be saved as a file.
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Camcorder hard drive to DVD video
As camcorder hard drives become increasingly popular, there is a demand to put them onto DVD. This tutorial will show you how to take footage's from your hard drive camcorder and convert into DVD without a DVD recorder.You will need Sony Vegas, and Sony DVD Arthictect.1) Turn on your hard drive camcorder and drag the *.mts files onto your hard drive.2) Open Sony Vegas3) Drag all the files onto the Vegas timeline in the order you want the videos to appear in. Also note that a DVD can hold up to 2 hours of video. I recommend exporting only 1:30hrs of it, because at the Vegas default compression, the video will fit just barely. You can change the Vegas default compression but you might loose some quality, its difficult to tell though.4) Once you have the *.mts files in Vegas, on the top of the timeline, you can select a loop region which lets you export the specified time video. At the same line that you see the play pause and rewind buttons, over to the right are 3 different time codes. The one furthest to the right tells you the total running time of the region you will choose to export.5) Select the region that you want to export again keep in mind to export only 1:30hrs of it.6) Hold down ctrl and press M on the key board. A window will appear. In the drop down menu "save file type", Select Main Concept MPEG-2. Under the drop down menu "template" save as DVD NTSC for the north American video system. It will take a while to compress to DVD NTSC depending on your computer. For a 5 hour video, it took a total of 24 hrs to compress for me.7) Open Sony DVD Architect and drag the saved file into the left part of the window. Remove the menu item by pressing delete on the key board. That way your DVD will play automatically when placed into the DVD player. Underneath the menu bar, select Make DVD. Then select burn, choose where you want to save the DVD files (video_ts & audio_ts folders). Select next, until you see the burning window in which you can name your DVD. Select the speed in which you want to burn at, I normally burn at 8X. Select finish. Remember to place an empty DVD-R into your DVD writer!I hope that helps, we can also convert your hard drive video onto DVD at Azure ProductionLabels: tutorial hard drive camcorder to dvd video video compression dvd
History of DVDs
In 1993, two high-density optical storage standards were being developed; one was the MultiMedia Compact Disc, backed by Philips and Sony, and the other was the Super Density disc, supported by Toshiba, Time Warner, Matsushita Electric, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Thomson, and JVC. IBM's president, Lou Gerstner, acting as a matchmaker, led an effort to unite the two camps behind a single standard, anticipating a repeat of the costly videotape format war between VHS and Betamax in the 1980s.
Philips and Sony abandoned their MultiMedia Compact Disc and fully agreed upon Toshiba's SuperDensity Disc with only one modification, namely changing to EFMPlus modulation. EFMPlus was chosen as it has a great resilience against disc damage such as scratches and fingerprints. EFMPlus, created by Kees Immink, who also designed EFM, is 6% less efficient than the modulation technique originally used by Toshiba, which resulted in a capacity of 4.7 GB as opposed to the original 5 GB. The result was the DVD specification, finalized for the DVD movie player and DVD-ROM computer applications in December 1995.[1] In May 1997, the DVD Consortium was replaced by the DVD Forum, which is open to all other companies.
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