Splitting video files to fit on CD...Automatically??

[aircooled]

This is for archiving home video tapes to CD, not DivX or movies....

I already have my video ripped to raw avi files (HUGE). Now I want to burn it to CD in Mpg2 format.

I know how to split video files manually, and have been using both Adobe Premiere and SonicFoundry Video Vegas.

Is there a program that will automaticlly render the mpg2 files in chunks of 650 or 700 mb?? Maybe the software I'm already using will do it.....

 

[aircooled]

^Bump (this might be better suited for the Software forum, but I figured I'd start in the Video forum)

 

[oldfart]

Did you try VCDHelp.com?

 

[aircooled]

I'll check them out tonight oldfart. I've gotten alot of DivX help from doom9.net in the past, but havn't really looked at VCDHelp.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[NicColt]

>This is for archiving home video tapes to CD, not DivX or movies

Dude your going about it the wrong way, specially for your archived home video tapes. Once dvd recroders become mainstream (in the very near future) you'll be able to put upto I think it's 6-12 Gigs or so per cd. Cutting them down to 700megs or so is not the way togo specially with cheap cdr's. Just winrar (store) them into 700 meg chunks and when you need to view them just decompress them to your HD. If they are archived just keep them there untill DVD-rw becomes mainstream and then burn them at that time without cutting them.

 

[THUGSROOK]

how about winrar?

just archive it

 

[Sukhoi]

Why not just make a VCD or SVCD? Since your source is old home videos you shouldn't be losing much quality at all.

 

[oldfart]

I'm in the process of doing the same thing myself. I'm converting all my home movies from an 8mm camcorder to SVCD's. With an SVCD or VCD, you can play it in your home DVD player. You can fit ~ 1 Hr of pretty decent quality (MPEG2) video on a 700 MB CDR. Storing rar archives in your PC does not accomplish that. There are tools like TMPGEnc that will encode the avi file to fit on the media size you specify. The 1 Hr per CD ratio is pretty good.

I believe this is what aircooled is looking to do also.

 

[dude]

Originally posted by: NicColt
>This is for archiving home video tapes to CD, not DivX or movies Dude your going about it the wrong way, specially for your archived home video tapes. Once dvd recroders become mainstream (in the very near future) you'll be able to put upto I think it's 6-12 Gigs or so per cd. Cutting them down to 700megs or so is not the way togo specially with cheap cdr's. Just winrar (store) them into 700 meg chunks and when you need to view them just decompress them to your HD. If they are archived just keep them there untill DVD-rw becomes mainstream and then burn them at that time without cutting them.

Um... I think he can't afford the space they take up that's why he wants to archive them to cds. Winrar will not compress video too much, because video (mpeg) is already a compressed format.

Plus, even when DVD writing becomes mainstream, the drives should still cost $150-200. It would probably be at least a year from now before they become mainstream. The competing DVD-RW and DVD+RW wars aren't taking them to the mainstream factor too quickly.

 

[THUGSROOK]

what i meant was....

rar files can easily be split into 695mb files for archiving - if he wants to keep the RAW avi.

 

[oldfart]

Look at the post:

This is for archiving home video tapes to CD, not DivX or movies....

I already have my video ripped to raw avi files (HUGE). Now I want to burn it to CD in Mpg2 format.

I know how to split video files manually, and have been using both Adobe Premiere and SonicFoundry Video Vegas.

Is there a program that will automaticlly render the mpg2 files in chunks of 650 or 700 mb?? Maybe the software I'm already using will do it.....


Clearly, he want to convert avi to Mpeg2 in chunks to make SVCD. If you had ever been though this process, you would see what I mean. The normal process is capture avi -> chop up/edit the avi file to ~ 1 Hr -> convert to MPEG1 (VCD) or MPEG2 (SVCD) -> burn to CD.

 

[randomlinh]

and he's looking for a more automated way to chop his avi's

 

[oldfart]

This is interesting for me since I'm starting to learn the ins and outs of this. To give you an idea of the sizes here...I did a 1 Hr 480 x 480 MJPEG 2:1 compression avi capture. The avi capture file was 26 Gig. That has to then be MPEG2 encoded to fit on a 700 Meg CDR...it worked! Its nice to do something that actually can use some of this CPU power and HD storage space I have.

 

[THUGSROOK]

yes i know exactly what he was asking.
but n/m, sorry to interupt.

 

[aircooled]

I was hoping to be able to "span" the video to multiple cd's by designating a maximum file size. Basically select my avi, then select render to mpeg2 in chunks of 650mb (kind of like winzip or ghost does, but for video). But I have yet to find a video cutting program that let's you plug-in the output file size.


Oldfart is right, I want to compress the raw avi's into 650mb chunks of mpeg2.

I'd love to burn the raw avi to DVD , but I'll wait for the DVD-R standards to get hammered out and become a little more affordable before I go that route.

Thanks for all the replies...