Hi, I've never tried on an AVI file, but I have tried on mpeg2 files and Imovie won't use them. I've googled to see if I can find an importer, and some very inelegant solutions exist. You have to be a bit careful though because some of the videos like low bit mpeg2's or avi files are lossie compressed video. It's somewhat analagous to making cd's out of mp3 files. Possibly necessary bbut not totally advisable if there's a posibility of avoiding it. I really don't see though why it should be so hard to find a program that will *import video files using existing or open source codeks, *Accessibly allow for title and chapter points to be added b time or by frame, *Accessibly allow for the insertion of an image, sound, or flash movie to use as a menu background, *And then nicely encode the dvd to a video_ts folder, preferably mangling the video as little as possible.
Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: [email protected] On 12-May-09, at 10:42 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Ditto. This might be a non-trivial process. DVDs are usually playing > MPEG2 format video and AVI is a Microsoft Video for Windows format > which they came out with in 1992. It is just a container which can > hold mpeg2 and other content types but DVDs are not typically > formatted that way. DVDs in addition to being a specific physical > media also has an entire spec about how the hierarchy of files is > organized and how those files are formatted. So you can't just throw > any old file on a DVD disc and expect it to work in a DVD player. > That said, I wonder if iMovie could import the AVIs and make a DVD > out of them. Or maybe QT Pro could export the AVIs in something > iMovie can import. > > CB > > erik burggraaf wrote: >> >> Hi Will, >> >> If you copy a set of avi files into the untitled dvd folder and burn >> them, you will get a disc full of avi files in whatever folder >> structure you set them up in. >> >> If you want titles and chapters you need to re-author the avi files >> into .vob dvd files. I haven't yet found a nice accessible program >> to >> do that but I'm all ears if anybody has. >> >> Your dvd player may play .avi files or it may not, or it may only >> play >> avi files on the root of the disc. Some experimentation is in order >> here. >> >> Best, >> >> erik burggraaf >> A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. >> Phone: 888-255-5194 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> On 12-May-09, at 6:10 AM, william lomas wrote: >> >> >>> hi all I have a set of folders of files in AVI format. Can I asume >>> that when I burn these to a dvd disc, that each folder will be a >>> separate title on the disc? >>> When I copy the folder with the files inside it to the untitled dvd >>> burn folder, can i make the disc a DVD disc, not a VCD one, so >>> that it >>> can be played in a standard DVD player hooked up to a tv? >>> WIll >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
