MP4 (multiple) to DVD?

[Manchester]

I've been landed with a job from a friend...

To convert camcorder videos for use with an iPad, and also separately a DVD to show to family.

I've converted the many small files to MP4, and have added them to the iPad.

So my question, what is the easiest way to add the videos to a DVD, so that they can be watched on a generic DVD Player?

There are probably circa 700 videos by the way (many of which are short clips), just to make things more difficult.

Any advice on software and solutions would be appreciated.

 

[ColdCase]

Do you need a menu to select from the 700 clips, or just want play the clips in sequence on a DVD player?

You could think about using something like iMovie or QT to combine all the clips into one movie and use something like burn to burn the DVD. Not sure how anything "free" would cope with 700 clips. You could end up with 50 pages of index to sort through.

 

[Manchester]

Do you need a menu to select from the 700 clips, or just want play the clips in sequence on a DVD player?

You could think about using something like iMovie or QT to combine all the clips into one movie and use something like burn to burn the DVD.

Good question, and one which I didn't make clear.

The easiest way is to combine and be done with it, but sadly, I could do with adding all files on their own, so either a menu, or easier still if possible, is just an index, detailing the file location which would be selectable.

Is it possible?

 

[Dave Braine]

As ColdCase suggested, try Burn:
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
Not sure how it will cope with 700 clips though. Make sure you choose Video and DVD-Video to get a dvd that will play in dvd players.

 

[Manchester]

As ColdCase suggested, try Burn:
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
Not sure how it will cope with 700 clips though. Make sure you choose Video and DVD-Video to get a dvd that will play in dvd players.

I missed mention of Burn, although I will have a look at it, thanks.

 

[Dave Braine]

Using Burn cuts out the need to convert to VOB, as Burn will do it.

 

[Manchester]

Any options other than Burn?

I've tried using it, but had errors the first time which is due to the number of files I had added. Retried it, converted the mp4's via Burn, and tried to save the image, it just closed the programme though.

 

[Dave Braine]

but had errors the first time which is due to the number of files I had added

You hadn't exceeded the capacity of the dvd?

and tried to save the image, it just closed the programme though.

Yeah. Does that for me as well. Annoying.

 

[ColdCase]

You hadn't exceeded the capacity of the dvd?

That would be about 4.6 GB for a typical DVD. (700 ~6MB videos if my math is close enough )

 

[Manchester]

No, hadn't exceeded the limit for a DVD.

Tried 99 of the clips, which came to circa 2.4GB, and it wouldn't have it.

I think I'll just combine clips, and do it over 4 DVD's.

 

[Maxwill]

DVDs are made up of many file types, but the portion that contains the video is usually an MPEG-2 or VOB file. For people who plan to view videos on DVD player via USB, the only way to address this issue is encoding the movies or video into DVD player recognizable MPEG-2 codec.