Does anyone know an easy way to compress movie files so you can burn them to a 4.7 gig DVD? I have loads of footage that's gradually taken up nearly all my HD space, and need to burn it onto DVD so I can a.) get some space on my PC and b.) not have to worry about my HD buggering up and losing all the footage of birthdays and holidays I have... (this has happened to one of our friends today)

 

All I've got at the moment are huge .avi files.

 

Any help you can give me would be really appreciated, I really don't want to lose this footage.

 

Thanks!

 

Jon.

win avi is pretty good if it straight form dv then it will be huge as its uncompressed

Does anyone know an easy way to compress movie files so you can burn them to a 4.7 gig DVD? I have loads of footage that's gradually taken up nearly all my HD space, and need to burn it onto DVD so I can a.) get some space on my PC and b.) not have to worry about my HD buggering up and losing all the footage of birthdays and holidays I have... (this has happened to one of our friends today)

 

All I've got at the moment are huge .avi files.

 

Any help you can give me would be really appreciated, I really don't want to lose this footage.

 

Thanks!

 

Jon.

You'll need a program like TMPGEnc Plus to compress it to either a DVD format or a SVCD/VCD format. After which you can just use Nero to master and burn the files to disc.

i'd recommend winavi its really good, super fast too, and dead simple to use, wipes the floor with tmpgenc.

i go with tmpeg, it really easy to use .

I would burn them as data files and not a vid.

 

You will lose quality converting them into DVD format (MPEG2) and half the time the sound comes out of sync.

but how do you burn them as data files? :confused: they are alreaday uncompressed .avi files which is the problem :(

 

thanks for the quick replies guys :)

Is there an easy way of zipping them up then burning to DVD so I can unzip them later? Not too hot on all this technical stuff as you can prolly tell ;)

i'd recommend winavi its really good, super fast too, and dead simple to use, wipes the floor with tmpgenc.

Go away you! =P Personally from a quality point of view TMPGEnc would be better, unless of course you have the money for Cinema Craft Encoder series of compressors. Which I have to admit is god damn brilliant when it comes to quality.

 

I would burn them as data files and not a vid.

 

You will lose quality converting them into DVD format (MPEG2) and half the time the sound comes out of sync.

Out of sync? You sure you aint doing something wrong there? Also if it's out of sync you could just delay the sound, depending on the program you use u can get it to do either + or - a few ms.

 

Is there an easy way of zipping them up then burning to DVD so I can unzip them later? Not too hot on all this technical stuff as you can prolly tell ;)

The easy answer is no.

Is there an easy way of zipping them up then burning to DVD so I can unzip them later? Not too hot on all this technical stuff as you can prolly tell ;)

Let me rephase that. It is poss to zip it all up but cause it'll take soooo damn long to do that using one of the more common zip formats, (.zip or .rar) it would have wished you converted it into a DVD Video or a SVCD/VCD!!!

you serious? I did the same video twice, once with tmpgenc and once with winavi, winavi did it something like 10 times faster than tmpgenc on played back on the tv I couldnt tell any difference.

you serious? I did the same video twice, once with tmpgenc and once with winavi, winavi did it something like 10 times faster than tmpgenc on played back on the tv I couldnt tell any difference.

I'm a purist, so I tend to encode it with as many passes as I can, usually around 5 pass encode. At the end of the day, just try them all and stick with one your happy with.

I think you may need WINRAR to zip them. I think winzip has a max size limit on the files.

 

You can copy to DVD by WindowsXp if you have it

Use X VIDEO CONVERTER do a search on the net,will convert AVI to MPEG and back again,and to ASF,WMV,DVD,VCD,SVCD,Mpeg1,Mpeg2,and vice versa,its the only one i bother using now,two clicks,job done,will allso do batch files.

 

Tony ;)

Ok, I tried some of the things suggested, and I can't get the bloody thing to work :headvswal This is so frustrating... I wish I knew more about computers... :(

 

Has anyone got any links to an idiotproof step by step guide/ I think this is what I need...

 

Damn this is frustrating! lol

 

Thanks for your help again :)

Use X VIDEO CONVERTER do a search on the net,will convert AVI to MPEG and back again,and to ASF,WMV,DVD,VCD,SVCD,Mpeg1,Mpeg2,and vice versa,its the only one i bother using now,two clicks,job done,will allso do batch files.

 

Tony ;)

 

Ok, I've downloaded and installed this one, how the hell do you start the program :confused: I've installed it fine... but can't find how to start it up, and there's no instructions :headvswal

 

Why is this so hard! :wack:

Ok, I've downloaded and installed this one, how the hell do you start the program :confused: I've installed it fine... but can't find how to start it up, and there's no instructions :headvswal

 

Why is this so hard! :wack:

 

OK,go to start,programs,open up X Video Converter,click on ADD TASK,select ALL TO MPEG1/2,click NEXT,then click ADD FILE,a box will open so you can locate the film file,find the file,click on it then click OPEN in the bottom right hand of box/window,you will then see that the file is in Top line on X Video,click DONE at bottom,you will then see its WAITING,then click on START,it will then convert file for you,you will see on time line/bar the progress,hope this ok for you,Tony :)

You are THE MAN.

 

Thankyou very much, I owe you a pint at the next meet ;)