Best prog for burning AVI's to DVD?

[fightcancer]

I want to burn a few AVI's I DL'd to DVD for a friend's kid. It's the BBC Dinosaurs special but the family needs it on DVD instead of AVI format.

TIA!

 

[Continuity28]

Well, there's the high quality way... which requires much knowledge about everything involved...

Or you can do it the easy way and use programs like Nero Vision Express 3, or TMPGEnc XPress 3. I believe the Nero has a free 30 day trial, if you don't already own Nero.

 

[homercles337]

Uh, AVI2DVD? Google is your friend.

 

[fightcancer]

Originally posted by: homercles337
Uh, AVI2DVD? Google is your friend.

And reading is yours.

Topic Title: Best prog for burning AVI's to DVD?
Topic Summary: Need recommendations please.

Thanks for the recommendations, Continuity28.

 

[gsellis]

Scenarist, but I suspect you want something that does not cost $20k.

You can try TMPGEnc (Pegasys) products. They have an encoder (AVI -> M2V/WAV or AC3) and a DVD authoring program. I use Tsunami Express 3 (tmpgenc) and MediaChance's DVDLab. Both have a trial version. There are cheaper ones and some free ones. Even Nero will do it.

 

[Continuity28]

Originally posted by: gsellis
Scenarist, but I suspect you want something that does not cost $20k.

You can try TMPGEnc (Pegasys) products. They have an encoder (AVI -> M2V/WAV or AC3) and a DVD authoring program. I use Tsunami Express 3 (tmpgenc) and MediaChance's DVDLab. Both have a trial version. There are cheaper ones and some free ones. Even Nero will do it.

Scenarist is definately too pricey. So is CCE for encoding IMO, although I do like CCE.

Actually I find for just an authoring program, DVD-Lab PRO is awesome. As for encoding, there are some free solutions.. but you really do have to know everything involved to get the best quality. That's why I recommended Nero and TMPGEnc Express, its very easy for a newcomer - and yet you can get technical with them if you wish. Surely not CCE quality encoding or DVD-Lab PRO quality authoring, but it gets the job done cheaply.

 

[Eddieo]

Originally posted by: homercles337
Uh, AVI2DVD? Google is your friend.

:thumbsup:

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Continuity28
Scenarist is definately too pricey. So is CCE for encoding IMO, although I do like CCE.

Actually I find for just an authoring program, DVD-Lab PRO is awesome. As for encoding, there are some free solutions.. but you really do have to know everything involved to get the best quality. That's why I recommended Nero and TMPGEnc Express, its very easy for a newcomer - and yet you can get technical with them if you wish. Surely not CCE quality encoding or DVD-Lab PRO quality authoring, but it gets the job done cheaply.

There is CCE Basic, which might be better than Tsunami. It is supposed to use the same engine as regular CCE. The VBR is limited though (can't remember if it does single or dual pass - regular CCE can do lots of passes). CCE Basic is around $60.

 

[VicodiN]

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: Continuity28
Scenarist is definately too pricey. So is CCE for encoding IMO, although I do like CCE.

Actually I find for just an authoring program, DVD-Lab PRO is awesome. As for encoding, there are some free solutions.. but you really do have to know everything involved to get the best quality. That's why I recommended Nero and TMPGEnc Express, its very easy for a newcomer - and yet you can get technical with them if you wish. Surely not CCE quality encoding or DVD-Lab PRO quality authoring, but it gets the job done cheaply.

There is CCE Basic, which might be better than Tsunami. It is supposed to use the same engine as regular CCE. The VBR is limited though (can't remember if it does single or dual pass - regular CCE can do lots of passes). CCE Basic is around $60.

CCE basic does max double pass vbr...

 

[BDawg]

Nero works very well for my needs.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: Eddieo

Originally posted by: homercles337
Uh, AVI2DVD? Google is your friend.

:thumbsup:

 

[BlueWeasel]

VSO DivxtoDVD has worked very well for me.