What are the best output settings for creating a high quality video file to put on DVD?

Question

Hello, I am using the trial version of Power director 7 and I am trying to make a high quality DVD for my friends. I used 2 cameras to film my scenes, a flip camera, and a digital Olympus camera. Both cameras have there files as .AVI when I load them into the computer. I was wondering what the best output file type is, when producing my scenes to a file for the highest quality DVD. In other words when I click produce my file, and I am on step 2 should I choose, .AVI, .MPEG1, .MPEG2, DivX, Portable.MPEG4 or AVC.MPEG4. And what setting should I use for that choice (ex. PAL or NTSC, DV-AVI or windows AVI)

The reason why I want to save my stuff as a file first is because I have so many files to edit, I am editing 40 at a time instead of all 200, and then saving a group of 40 clips as one scene before finally putting them together and writing them to a disk.

Answer 1

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You just use a DVD Creator to burn them to DVD.

I know a appl named Wondershare Video to DVD Burner, it can convert various video ( AVI, MP4, MPG, MPEG, 3GP, WMV, ASF, RM, RMVB, DAT, MO) to DVD.

It is worth to try:

http://www.ipod-soft.com/video-to-dvd.ht...

PS, it can combine your video files into video slideshows with beautiful transition effects and a customizable menu, I think it is a different from other DVD Creators.

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Answer 2

Cucusoft Video to DVD Creator is a good choice. It converts popular video formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, DV, VOB to DVD and burn DVD movie played on portable or home DVD player. Any video to to VCD/DVD/SVCD is even faster than real-time.

Free download here:

http://www.topsreviews.com/dvd-creator/d...

Step by step guide:

http://www.topsreviews.com/guides/cucuso...

Unbiased reviews and side-by-side comparisons of the DVD creator give you enough information to research the ins and outs of a particular product:

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Also, you can search some other software:

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Answer 3

you can try avs video converter,

it can create movie DVDs or VCD and SVCD from your imported video files integrated burning engine to watch them on your home DVD player with friends and family. Use DVD menu templates. Split your movie into chapters.you can free download it here to have a try,

http://www.flash-video-soft.com/avs-vide...

you can also read this guide about How to burn movies to DVD, VCD, SVCD

http://www.flash-video-soft.com/burn-dvd...

If you still have question, you can use yahoo to search for more answers http://answers.yahoo.com or feel free to contact me,

Answer 4

I have always read that AVI was a totally uncompressed file, no loss of quality, so it would seem this is the format you want to use.  The only down side is that it will be largest of the formats and a bit more difficult to work with if your PC isn't loaded with power.

Answer 5

DVD movie is encoded by MPEG2 standard. And your video will be converted into .IFO, .VOB,.BUP files.

And any conversion work will lead to quality loss. So, if you wanna get quality reserved maximally, burn your video to DVD directly.

I don't what format your dvd burner supports, but this burner below can burn all popular video to DVD.

http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/video-to-...

Hope it helps.