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How to burn MTS HD videos to DVD with Windows DVD Maker

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:37:46 +0000

Windows DVD Maker has been introduced with Windows Vista and it continues to be present in Windows 7. Generally, Windows DVD Maker is not hard to use. It has some really nice customization options which should fit basic video DVD burning needs. It is “a suite of tools to import, edit, manage, and share your digital home videos—including movies captured in the high-definition video (HDV) format” by the official site of Microsoft. Yet users may doubt if it is true when they failed to import the HD footages shot with their Canon, Sony, JVC and Panasonic cameras and camcorders. Well, it is true that the Windows DVD Maker handles with high-definition video, but unfortunately it does not work most of the HD video clips because of their uncommon formats (mostly MPEG and H.264 encoded *.mod, *.tod, *.mts, *.mov files). In order to burn the HD (especially AVCHD) footages with Windows DVD Maker, you have to convert the videos to compatible formats for Windows DVD Maker.

Files Types Supported By Windows DVD Maker
Let’s take a look at the types of files which can be burned with Windows DVD Maker:

Video files: *.asf, *.avi, *.dvr-ms, *.m1v, *.mp2v, *.mpe, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mpv2, *.wm, and *.wmv.
Audio files: *.aif, *.aifc, *.aiff, *.asf, *.au, *.mp2, *.mp3, *.mpa, *.snd, *.wav, and *.wma.
Picture files: *.bmp, *.dib, *.emf, *.gif, *.jfif, *.jpe, *.jpeg, *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, *.tiff, and *.wmf.

Convert HD MTS, TOD, MOV, MOD to be compatible with Windows DVD Maker
Among the versatile video converting tools on market, Pavtube HD Video Converter is a top one for you to convert HD footages taken with over majority cams at high quality. It also allows you to adjust the advanced parameters like bitrate, resolution, audio channels, etc. In the following guide I will show you how to convert HD footages to Windows DVD Maker supported formats with least quality loss.

Step 1. Getting started
Transfer the footages you’d like to edit from camcorder or memory card to PC. Install and launch Pavtube HD Converter, click “Add” to load AVCHD MTS video clips, or directly drag the files into file list. By default, the files are selected. You could view the files in preview window, simply highlight the file and click play button.

Step 2. Adjusting audio and video settings
Click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. Now that we are converting HD files (MTS, MOV, TOD) for burning with Windows DVD Maker, you may click on the format bar and follow HD Video->HD WMV/ AVI/ MPEG-2 and then customize the advanced video and audio parameters. Take HD WMV as example, for the users who are unwilling to degrade the HD video quality, a recommended configuration could be Video at 1280*720p (or 960*540), 12800kbps, 29.97fps, and set Audio at 48000 Hz, 256 kbps, 5.1 channels. The original footages you have taken may be a full HD 1920*1080, but as we are talking about burning DVD, it is not a best choice to maintain the original resolution, since the full HD video fits for blu-ray disc rather than standard DVD.

Step 3. Converting HD footages to WMV Windows DVD Maker supported formats
Click on “Convert” button and the Pavtube HD Video Converter will starts converting HD footages to compatible formats for Windows DVD Maker. You could set auto shutdown in progress window or leave it there and come back later.

Burn converted video clips with Windows DVD Maker
After conversion you can burn the converted videos with Windows DVD Maker now:
Step 1. Click the “Start” button and select “Windows DVD Maker“ to run the program, then click the “Add items” button from the top menu and browse to the folder were the movies you want to burn are located. By default, they should be found in the “Videos” folder.

Step 2. Select the videos you want to burn and type the “Disc title”. Also, you may select the order in which the movies will be saved on DVD. To do that, select a movie and press the “Up” or “Down” button to change its order.

Step 3. If you want to, you can click the “Options” button and set things like the burning speed, the aspect ratio, the video format or you can choose if the DVD will have a menu or not. After you finished making the settings you want, click the “OK” button and then “Next”.

Step 4. At this step you can create a custom DVD menu or you can select a predefined one. To select a predefined menu, scroll the “Menu Styles” list and select the one you like most. You can customize it by pressing the “Customize Menu” button and making the settings you want. Also, you can change the menu text by clicking the “Menu text” button and typing the text you want for each button.

Step 5. When you have finished making all the customizations, click the “Burn” button.

First, Windows DVD Maker will encode the movie in the appropriate format and then it will burn it on DVD. Usually, the encoding process takes much more time than the burning so you have to patient.

How to burn camcorder HD videos to DVD with iDVD

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:18:55 +0000

After a video project has been completed in Final Cut Pro and exported using Compressor, it still needs to be fashioned into a DVD. This process, called authoring, is handled in the Final Cut Pro suite by Apple’s DVD Studio Pro software. The iDVD is for sure able to burn all the projects created by Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express. But sometimes we just want to save the editing process and create DVD project in iDVD with the footages shot by camcorders (Sony, Canon, JVC, whatever). To our disappointment, mostly the iDVD refuses to load these videos. Why should this happen? Well, the HD camcorders basically save footages in MTS, TOD or MOD formats, which are not acceptable for iDVD. But we know that the iDVD works well with MPG and MP4 format. So things become easier. All we need is to convert these troublesome HD or AVCHD videos to iDVD compatible format. Besides, by converting the HD videos we can compress the videos to fit for standard DVD instead of blu-ray disc, for the AVCHD or Full HD footages are naturally for making blu-ray discs in the first place.

Now let’s focus on the conversion. Many video transcoding tools on market are able to convert HD videos, but Pavtube HD Converter for Mac must be our optimal choice for its considerate profile options and adjustable video and audio parameters (resolution, bitrate, framerate, audio channels etc) and flexible editing facilities (trim, crop, watermark, audio replace, etc). In the following guide I would like to share with you some tricks of converting Full HD video footages for iDVD authoring and burning.

Step through converting MTS, TOD, MOD to MP4,MOV,iDVD compatible MPG format:
Step one. Run Pavtube HD Converter for Mac. Click ‘Add’ button, browse to the footages and load them to the converter.

Step two. Select the items to be converted, and click on ‘Format’ bar and select Common Video->MPEG2 Video (*.mpg) in the pull-down list. You are not recommended to choose the HD formats, as I mentioned above, the Full HD is for blu-ray disc, not standard DVD.

Step three. Now you can further adjust the advanced video and audio parameters. Basically the footages are 1080p (1920*1080) or 720p (1280*720). If you would like to keep the original 16:9 aspect ratio (I believe you do, no one would prefer stretched image), make sure you set correct video size. Click the ‘Settings’ button to adjust the advance parameters. The following settings are for your reference.

Video: mpeg2video, 960*540p, 9800kbps, 29.97fps
Audio: mp2, 44.1khz, 128mbps, 6 channels

Step four. Click the ‘Browse’ button next to the Export to field and select a location on your HDD for the output video file.

Step five. Click the ‘Convert’ button to start converting HD videos on Mac. After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to locate converted video files.

Small Tips:

Preview the video- select it in file list and click ‘Preview’ button.
Thumbnail- click ‘Snapshoot’ button when previewing the video. Click ‘Option’ to set the image format of screenshots.
Deinterlace- click ‘Editor’, switch to ‘Effect’ tab, find ‘Deinterlacing’ box, and check it.
Combine files together- check the files to be merged in file list and check ‘Merge into one’ box beside ‘Settings’ button.

Note that trascoding will definitely degrade the video quality, this is inevitable. The quality loss is up to your settings when converting the footages. When authoring DVD, using the provided templates makes authoring quick and easy. See how to create DVD using iDVD.

DVD Burner:maingear upgrades eX-L gaming laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 DirectX 11-supporting graphics

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:17:15 +0000

After racing ahead on the desktop late last year with Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, ATI is finally starting to equip gaming laptops with its Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics—which, like its desktop sibling, supports DirectX 11—after it was announced in January at CES. First, Asus announced the G73Jh, and now Maingear has revamped its eX-L gaming laptop around the new graphics chip as well as the latest Intel mobile processors.

The eX-L is a 15.6-inch notebook, but still manages to pack a LED-backlit screen that can be configured with 1,920×1,080 resolution (as a $95 upgrade). For the base $1,599 price, it comes with a Core i5-520 dual-core CPU, though for another $400 you can go all the way up to a quad-core i7-820QM. You also get 4GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and a DVD burner, though all are upgradeable: you can double the RAM (for $320 more), add up to a 750GB hard drive ($76 extra) or choice of SSD drive, and choose a Blu-ray reader/DVD Burner combo drive (an additional $145). Maingear outfitted the eX-L with a dual-heatpipe solution for the processor and graphics to try to keep things cool, though I’d be wary of having this sit on my lap for long gaming sessions.

Clearly, the new ATI graphics is the biggest draw here, being the first DX 11-compatible GPU and maybe the fastest one on the market. Is that enough to get you to buy a gaming laptop, or are you still holding out for some benchmark scores and reviews?