Newbie Question

[hunterD]

I've got a 16 gig avi file I exported from Adobe premier.

I want to get that onto a DVD, keeping the quality (Or as close as) I've been told its possible to do and supposedly not that hard but i spent couple of hours now trying to find out and nothing.

 

Any ideas anyone???

 

need to know as soon as possible (without sounding to desperate).

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Chuck it into a program called CCE (Google it) and it'll give you an m2v + audio stream.

 

Convert the audio into ac3 using anything you can find and then put the whole lot into an authoring program.

 

Failing that, use something like ConvertXtoDVD which is an 'all in 1' avi -> dvd tool.

[lfcrule1972]

Large Avi file that !!!

[digidragon]

You could also use a lossless avi codec to encode it, like the free Huffyuv codec.

 

http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Oooh we're both jumping to conclusions now

 

I saw the word 'DVD' in the first post and just assumed they wanted to build a DVD Video disc.

 

You're assuming they want it on DVD - full stop.

i.e. in the 'backup' sense.

 

Being a lossless codec, would Huffyuv really achieve 4:1 compression on this AVI file... who knows!