DVDStyler

[silverbirch]

This programme has been suggested to me for making DVDs from my video clips.  A couple of questions ..

audio format:  MP2 48kHz
                        AC3 48 kHz

how do I know which to choose?

And

aspect ration:  4:3
                        16:9

I'm assuming for aspect ration that 16:9 is the new television screen that is available?  But no idea about audio.

Thanks in advance.

[daniel]

Dolby Surround you take ac3, and for only stereo mp2...
You see this http://www.dvdstyler.de/index.php?lang=en ?
Maybe it's help by the first steps...

[T6]

ac3 sounds as a good option but it mostly depends on the quality of the source content, if the audio is poor the ac3 won't make it sound excellent, just going to waste space in the final dvd

about 4:3 and 16:9 it depends on the original content

if your video is 4:3, if it fills a old screen in 4:3 format, change it to 16:9 will just make the image distorted to fill the extra 30% of screen you get in widescreen, what is 16:9

if the content is wide, leave it as wide if you need to be wide, if not, you can edit the video and remove left and right portions of the image to make it fill a 4:3 screen, the same technique done to fit most movies in the standard tv(well, old tv standard)

it basically depends on the video you have and where you will use it

[Was_Just19]

Using Synaptic you can install Mediainfo_GUI from the repository which will give you the required info about the original file.

[exwintech]

Silverbirch - If the Aspect Ratio of your video clips is 16:9 - which recent cameras doing HD-Low or HD-Hi use (the VGA or 640 x 480 setting option will be at 4:3 AR) - you don't need to "clip" the sides to make the video 4:3.

> Of course, as T6 says, that's an option. In Sydney we've had "parallel" FTA broadcasts of Digital and Analogue TV since 2002. If you don't have a widescreen TV, you can select on the Set-Top Box which you want. In analogue a 4:3 picture fills the screen - and there's no 16:9 transmission. In Digital, the 4:3 movies don't fill the screen - click the AR button on the Remote to fill the screen at 4:3 Digital.

> If the movie is 16:9 - it displays as "letterboxed" on a std TV - you see the full width in 16:9 AR - but there are "black bars" above and below.

> You can duplicate that effect with "HD" video from cameras. I have a camera which does 1280 x 720 .mp4 video. To make Std DVDs from that, it has to be converted to 720 x 400, and the black-bars added top and bottom - to make the working AR 4:3.

> Note that in PAL areas Std TV is 720 x 576 - and in NTSC areas, it's 720 x 480. So the black bars added must make the "total vertical" into 480 for NTSC - add 40 lines top and bottom - and for PAL's 576, add 88 top and bottom. Of course - if your vertical from camera is different - so must the bars be.

> If you use Avidemux you can do the DVD conversion [DVD(lavc) in the Video list] - and add the bars at the same time. Use "2-Pass -Average Bitrate" - under "Configure" to retain best quality.

> The output is *.mpeg files. Make sure to check Format at bottom left as "MPEG-PS (A+V)"

> Under Audio - Filters, Check Resampling to 48,000Hz if the original Audio wasn't. The DVD disk structure needs Audio at 48,000. Use AC3 unless you know the TV-Player has problems with that. If so, use AAC.

> If you do the above to all of your from-camera clips before using a video-editor - such as Kdenlive - they'll all be consistent and easy to use.

> With Kdenlive it will render your constructed video to DVD-output, and create the VOBs and *.ifos, etc. K3b is happy with Kdenlive's output for burning TV-Player compatible DVDs.

> Any questions, Post back...

Regards, Dave.

[silverbirch]

Sorry I never got back to this.  I used WinFF to change the files then DVDStyler to make the DVD - seems to work ..

thanks very much all.   

[Was_Just19]

I also use that combination here.  Glad you got a solution that works for you.