Sossity Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 (edited) I want to backup/ archive the original mpeg movie clips & their THM files, and jpg photos unaltered from my digital Sony still camera. the originals will be burned from an external hard drive, ( this is where I put them after downloading from my camera) Was advised on image burn for this, & to use build mode. I want to make an accurate burn without any audio video sync problems. Also want discs to be universal & readable by PCs & Macs older & newer, as well as older & newer DVD players. Need the disc to be readable in the future. do I need the THM files that get recorded along with my movie clips? when I build up my files in build mode, should I remove everything from their folders that they are in? for example 2 movie clips & 2 photos in a dated folder I made on my external hard drive using windows explore. I looked at the overview of build mode & saw alot of folder options in the options tab; preserve full pathnames; recurse subdirectories; include; hidden files, system files, & archive files only. which of these should I check off? & other options; add to write que, do I need this? what file system should I use for my purposes? In the advanced tab, what date options should I choose? what restrictions? do I need it to be bootable? in build mode should I write directly to a disc in my DVD drive or build an image file? what burn speed should I use? Sossity Edited November 13, 2007 by Sossity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoSox2882 Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 I dont believe you can burn mpeg files. I believe you would have to use another program to convert to dvd files, such as DVDFlick or AVI to DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 If you're just archiving the files, there's no need to convert anything. You can't archive AND expect them to play on 'normal' DVD players - the two are mutually exclusive where avi / mpeg files are concerned. If you have a DVD player than can play that type of content though, it'll be fine - as would it be if your source files were a VIDEO_TS folder full of IFO/BUP/VOB files. The default settings would work fine so just click the 'Reset Settings' option and then drag all the folders / files to the 'Source' list as per the guides. (and then follow the rest of the guide!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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