April 14th in General, Internet by pbu .

how to convert large video from avi to DVD?

how to convert video from avi to DVD?

i am not a pro when comes to video editing and conversion. I am sharing here some of the easy tips on converting large avi file to dvd format.

My situation:

I had a 3 hour very large home video (about 30GB file size) in avi format from my Sony Handycam in miniDV cassette.

What i wanted

My goals were to transcode/convert the 3hr video from miniDV cassette and compress the video in such a way to get accommodated it on single 4.7GB dvd (not in multiple dvd disks) without compromising the video quality and very importantly playable in most DVD players.

I searched all over the web on how to convert the video in avi format and write to DVD and the answers were hard to find. Very soon i found the answer was just around the corner.

Answer:

The answer is NERO DVD writing software. I had a version 6 that i owned and never knew it would do such a wonderful job. I imported all video clips through i.Link cable (Firewire port) and the total size of the video is about 30GB. The software prompted me to automatically to fit the video to available dvd space and viola! Its done! In my case it took almost 2hrs to write to DVD and the effort was well worth it.

Conclusion:

Once everything is completed, i noticed that by lowering the sampling rate of video, the whole video was compressed and got inside single DVD disk. The whole file size was only 3.2GB and the quality of video was really good when i had a look on having played in a DVD player.

NOTE: You must only use DV/Firewire port along with i.Link cable to get best picture quality. Dont use USB port to import video as it would get more noise and the quality of video would get degraded significantly.

While installing NERO suite you have install Nero Vision express which is very important to do this video task.