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Hello everyone,
Before posting this message, I researched online for an hour but I'm quite confused right now.
I made a video edit with Magix Video 2007, which is a really good software. Having finished it, I want to export it so that it can be played on a TV DVD player. Mine or my friends'.
I have the option to burn it in Mpeg, Avi, DV-avi, Magix video, Mpeg 4. Of course, the size of the film varies according to the format.
So I would like to know which format is most commonly read by TV DVD players to burn my video edit!!!
Thank you very much
Jeff
Before posting this message, I researched online for an hour but I'm quite confused right now.
I made a video edit with Magix Video 2007, which is a really good software. Having finished it, I want to export it so that it can be played on a TV DVD player. Mine or my friends'.
I have the option to burn it in Mpeg, Avi, DV-avi, Magix video, Mpeg 4. Of course, the size of the film varies according to the format.
So I would like to know which format is most commonly read by TV DVD players to burn my video edit!!!
Thank you very much
Jeff
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There is one constant: standalone DVD players read all DVDs in the format... DVD video. This is actually mpeg2 compression, in .VOB format arranged very precisely in a video_ts folder.
So if your software, which I don't know, doesn't have a feature like "export to DVD video," "burn to DVD video," or something like that, try exporting it as mpeg2...
Several possibilities:
- your software allows it... you export it as mpeg2 in a file with the .mpg extension... you just have to find an authoring software to turn this file into DVD video, possibly with menus, all that. I know there are some free ones...
- If the software doesn't allow it, you won't be out of the woods. Export it as DV-avi, that's where you'll have the least loss due to compression. Then find software capable of converting it to mpeg2. It exists, there are free ones, but not necessarily easy to use. Then you can author it, see above.
You can decide to ignore that damn mpeg2 standard, so ultra-proprietary and locked that it's a nightmare... and export to mpeg4 (divx or xvid)... it's an avi file, of better quality than mpeg2 at equal size. It is now recognized by most standalone DVD players but not all...
So, for a truly DVD video distribution, there aren't 15,000 solutions: the mpeg2 mess and its convoluted constraints.
So if your software, which I don't know, doesn't have a feature like "export to DVD video," "burn to DVD video," or something like that, try exporting it as mpeg2...
Several possibilities:
- your software allows it... you export it as mpeg2 in a file with the .mpg extension... you just have to find an authoring software to turn this file into DVD video, possibly with menus, all that. I know there are some free ones...
- If the software doesn't allow it, you won't be out of the woods. Export it as DV-avi, that's where you'll have the least loss due to compression. Then find software capable of converting it to mpeg2. It exists, there are free ones, but not necessarily easy to use. Then you can author it, see above.
You can decide to ignore that damn mpeg2 standard, so ultra-proprietary and locked that it's a nightmare... and export to mpeg4 (divx or xvid)... it's an avi file, of better quality than mpeg2 at equal size. It is now recognized by most standalone DVD players but not all...
So, for a truly DVD video distribution, there aren't 15,000 solutions: the mpeg2 mess and its convoluted constraints.
porschy
Very good answer, thank you very much really ;)
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jconfirm, a big thank you
