[Steve Saunders]

Good thought… I double checked and there IS a ‘custom’ button but it’s inactive when encoding mpeg2.

On the plus side, that did lead me to see that you can customize the AVI template. I’m running a test now to see how that works with using the Huffy codec, which is what the input is encoded with.

Probably won’t make a hill of beans quality-wise for the target DVD ;-D

Steve

[Steve Saunders]

Thanks! That was my thought process too.

You’d think that with the target set as a DVD, they’d calculate the bitrate in VMS to fit. Guess I expect too much from consumer level software 😉

Steve

[Steve Saunders]

Gave that a whirl – no go… in fact, it seems that in this method, not even all of the video shows up.

I did finally get a work around by getting a copy of the audio from the DVD and put it on the timeline in lieu of the audio from the VOB. I may have been lucky (I was expecting sync issues), but it matched up OK. FWIW, I used “Super” to create DV files from the VOBs and then took only the audio from the DV files.

I did the same project using video from the DV and VOB files, but haven’t compared the end result DVD. I would expect using the VOBs to give a better quality video. I’ll compare against the original to see what looks best.

Thanks for the help!
Steve