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Converting avi to dvd

Hey,if it is too large,you can convert it to .mp4.Or you can try this method：
1.Drag & drop AVI files to iMovie.
2.Select "iMovie" from output format list, the preset is the optimized settings for iMovie.
3.Hit the Convert button and this AVI to iMovie Video Converter for Mac will convert your AVI rapidly and the output file is ready for being imported to iMovie.
4.Launch iMovie, from the File menu, choose Import > movies, navigate to the folder that output AVI videos are saved. Select the files and click "Import".

Bingo! You did it!:D
 
so....let me just ask this question....how do i get my avi shows burnt onto a dvd in Toast Titanium, the easiest way possible.I noticed that my DVD player really seems to only play the VOB style videos.
 
PsstGreek said:
Why does it take almost 5 hours to burn an .avi movie in iDVD?

*edit* mac noobie here
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Because the .avi files is most probably using a highly compressive codec like H264 (MPEG-4) and a video DVD is using the MPEG-2 codec, thus the .avi file has to get properly transcoded into the correct format and codec.
It also depends on the speed of your Mac and how many cores you have available (I used a quad core Mac Pro 1,1 and it transcoded a 1 hour video (DV codec) in less than an hour (55 minutes or so) to the proper format). My dual core MBP would take three hours or even more. I didn't use iDVD though, but Compressor (part of Final Cut Studio).

And it isn't inherent to the Mac OS X, it would take roughly the same time if the same algorithm is used on a similar specced machine using Windows.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
Because the .avi files is most probably using a highly compressive codec like H264 (MPEG-4) and a video DVD is using the MPEG-2 codec, thus the .avi file has to get properly transcoded into the correct format and codec.
It also depends on the speed of your Mac and how many cores you have available (I used a quad core Mac Pro 1,1 and it transcoded a 1 hour video (DV codec) in less than an hour (55 minutes or so) to the proper format). My dual core MBP would take three hours or even more. I didn't use iDVD though, but Compressor (part of Final Cut Studio).

And it isn't inherent to the Mac OS X, it would take roughly the same time if the same algorithm is used on a similar specced machine using Windows.
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Ah, ok.

I'm on a MacBook Pro 2010 2.4GHZ


*edit* what would a good converter to use, I guess to make it a dvd?
 
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Converting avi to dvd

Yes I want to watch on TV from my DVD recorder/player
Sdashiki said:
a downloaded movie to DVD.

explain.

Do you mean you want to watch your avi on your TV?

or you want to convert an avi to DVD format (MPEG2) so you can author your own DVD?


DVD is NOT a codec, it is a media storage. The DVD playable formats are:

MPEG1
MPEG2

MPEG2 being the "DVD" quality one that everything you buy at the store is encoded in. MPEG1 is the old internet .mpg codec, same as MPEG2 but half the screen size and obviously not as good at motion estimation.

Anyway, you want to take an avi and put it on a DVD.

youd need a DVD authoring program in any case, to handle the newly converted avi-->mpeg2 and give you menus and all that jazz. So if you though you could convert an avi to DVD and pop in a disc, burn it and watch it on your big screen....you cant.

Toast does have a built in DVD authoring program of sorts, but its not even close to something as juvenile as iDVD.
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The definitive solution

Get Miro. Place your .avi into it. Then convert the .avi to a .mp4 (the "apple universal (video)" choice). It will take a while to convert (an hour or two depending on the length of the video). Now you can load this converted .mp4 into iDVD as instructed by the others in the thread and burn it to DVD which will play on any DVD player.

Q.E.D.
Engstfeld
 
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