hey, new to ImgBurn and DVDFlick, relatively new to video on PC platform, confusing landscape of one conversion after the other just to move original video around, edit, compress for web, and burn to dvd.
My workflow: basic editing in QuickTime Pro, encode for web (have this part figured out), but also then burn a high quality copy of the movie to dvd to be playable in both computers and commercial dvd players - this last bit has me baffled.
I hate having to convert so many times - i assume everytime i do it i lose more quality.
Here are my current twp attempts, both result in the same problem - a dvd that plays fine on the computer, but only in certain media players (for example, no audio at all in Windows Media player, yet the dvd my friend created on his Mac with FinalCut Pro or something WILL play in WMP), and then has severe abrupt audio skips here and there on commercial dvd players:
1. Export to .mov container in DV format from QT Pro, input into DVDFlick, either burn to cd or create ISO image, burn ISO imagea to dvd -r TDK or Maxcell in ImgBurn.
2. Export to .avi container from QT Pro, input into DVDFlick, create ISO image, burn ISO image to dvd -r TDK or Maxcell in ImgBurn.
Now that i've read your forums, i've already ordered a spindle of Verbatim since Office Depot didn't carry them, but still, i've burned a lot of audio and existing vob content to these Maxcell dvd -r's and apart from the occasional coaster, they all play in my commercial player.
I realize the problem may well be outside of ImgBurn or DVDFlick - i could even just use some basic advice on which format to export to from QT Pro that would make the best conversion into DVDFLick and then to ImgBurn (i'm assuming there's no way to go directly from QT Pro to ImgBurn, seems like you already have to have either an ISO or the VOB structure, and QT Pro doesn't export either of those).