Need help burning a DVD-R

[Bglad]

OK, not sure which forum to put this in.

I've made a video with Adobe Premiere. I rendered it to a Divx 5.02 encoded AVI. Now I want to burn it to a DVD. I don't want to change anything, just get the AVI onto DVD with as little loss in quality as humanly possible. No need for titles, chapters or any of that stuff, just hit play and play the movie.

Should I have rendered with a different codec? I spent a lot of time determining which looked the best but I have a feeling MPEG-2 was what I should use. Problem is I don't have it and I'm not sure it will solve my problem.

I spent 3 days calling professional video transfer houses around town and none of them can do it. If I go buy a DVD-R, will I be able to do this? If so, do I also need to buy software to do it? I really don't want to go buy one and spend the time to find out it can't be done... but I don't understand why this is so difficult.

Thx.

 

[nagger]

Have u tried reading any of the guides on these sites:

Doom9

DVD.box.sk

 

[KenGr]

I'm not really up on Divx at this point. However, you should have made an MPEG-2. I assume Premiere would have made an MPEG-2 as an option. Also, I thought Premiere would have authored the DVD for you. Anyway, if you can get a standard AVI, that can be converted to an MPEG-2 by a number of programs. Quality varies with the programs used. There are also many programs that will author a DVD from an MPEG. I suggest going to www.vcdhelp.com as a resource.

 

[Codewiz]

Yes you should have used Mpeg2. Divx can't be played on standalone dvd players(well there is one dvd player that plays divx) so you should use Mpeg2 if you plan to use it in a standalone dvd player. If you just want to play it on your computer then making an ISO DVD and putting the AVI on it will be fine.