Converting to Format direct to DVD

I have some movies I would like to convert so that I can play them on a regular dvd format without bothering to go through iDVD. For these simple files I won't need a start screen or anything - if it just starts automatically - that will be fine.....
Q: What format should I use to be able to pop it into toast (for example) so it will create a dvd...?

Thanks - let's say I have a med quality .mov file - if I wanted to can I export it as a ??mpeg2??? and then add to toast and print dvd direct that way?The first thing to consider is what are the source compression formats in your MOV file container? Lets say it is not MPEG-2 and is fully QT compatible. If this is so, then you could convert it to MPEG-2. The question now becomes, one of whether or not the file is usable by Toast. Are you tallking about a prepared "muxed" VOB or something else? Is it one long stream or already segmented for DVD use? Are the audio settings already DVD compatible? Are the files in a recognized VIDEO_TS folder? No, for my money, it is best to let Toast do the conversion and get it right the first time rather than monkey around here.
if so - what's the best mpeg2 format?If you are asking avout a conversion application, then I generally prefer the MPEG-2 files produced by bitVice -- just could never see spending so much mony when other, cheaper applications and hardware workflows are available. If you are referring to the the actual settings, then every file is different. My preference is to use the highest settings commensurate with the file content, file length, and target DVD capacity. This tends to change with every movie -- another reason to let Toast convert to a file best suited to your source file and let it choose the amount of compression needed to fit the file on your target DVD. If you are referring to "typical" video data rates here, they generally vary between 5.0 and 8.0 Mbps for most standard definition DVDs.
Hmmm - I noticed that qt pro does not mpeg2 export format... what do i do now?Those of us who used early versions of FCP and DVDSP probably still have the codec which came with this setup. More recent users have access to Compressor which handles MPEG-2, as well as, other pre-sets. You could always buy iVCD which includes both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 codecs, but why bother if you already have TOAST which also already has these codecs built in just as iDVD does.

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I'm guessing that your using One Step DVD . This will only work with one movie at a time.
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Welcome to the Sony Community!
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Some of my clients have been complaining about the DVD quality they received from me, and I wondered to myself how can I improve in future.
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Since you raised the question of Hi8 versus DV tape formats, here are a few thoughts intended partly for you and partly for those who (unlike you) may be planning to get their first camcorder and are wondering about the different formats available.
Hi8 is a second-generation analog format that was marketed starting about 1988 to permit better resolution than the original VHS and Video8 camcorder formats. It was superseded about 1995 by the digital video, or DV, format.
Hi8 produced video of decent quality and was a good capture medium for material that was going to be distributed on VHS or SVHS tape. But the quality of DV is better, and DV has enormous advantages for editing and distribution. In particular, DV has absolutely no "generation loss" when transferring from tape to computer, from tape to tape, or from computer to tape, and it permits sophisticated editing using any one of many "nonlinear editing" applications that are available on PC's or Macs. Once you have edited your video using one of these applications, you may proceed to "author" your DVD's (i.e. add menus, etc.) and they will be of surprisingly high quality.
In mentioning Hi8 you may actually have been thinking of the Digital8 format. This is a format developed by Sony as a bridge between the older Video8/Hi8 world and the DV world. It is logically identical to DV but it uses the same physical tape as Hi8. This tape is now customarily labelled "Hi8/Digital8" to emphasize this fact. Hi8/Digital8 tape is less expensive and reportedly more robust than DV tape.
In principle Digital8 is just as good a format as DV. However, Digital8 has been targeted at a lower end of the market than DV, so even the best Digital8 camcorders may not have as good optics, as good sensors, or as many features as the better DV camcorders.
A few years ago, many people would recommend Digital8 as a very practical format for someone just getting started in video, since it was available at lower price points than DV, was identical in quality as regards format and perhaps better in value as regards camcorders, i.e. Digital8 camcorders were less expensive than DV camcorders of the same quality. Above all, Digital8 was ideal for someone who had previously used Video8 or Hi8, since the early Digital 8 camcorders would play back analog tapes and so could bridge the transition to digital. In fact, by buying or borrowing a second Digital8 camcorder, you could play back your analog tapes from one camcorder and record them as digital tapes using the other camcorder, forever after enjoying the advantages of the digital format.
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In the last few years the DV format itself has been superseded by various high-definition formats, especially by HDV, a format that records to the same physical tapes as DV, at the same bitrates as DV, but, thanks to much greater compression, with twice the horizontal and more than twice the vertical resolution of DV.
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Despite the emergence of high-definition formats, there are good reasons for some people to prefer standard-definition DV at this time. One reason is cost. A good HDV camcorder -- the Canon HV20 is probably the best consumer model right now -- is likely to cost $1,000 or a bit more, while good DV models cost a few hundred. A second reason is low-light capability. The imaging chips for high-definition have many more pixels than the chips for DV. If the lenses are the same size, then these pixels must be crowded into a sensor about the same size as that of a DV camera, meaning that each pixel must be smaller and therefore less responsive to low-light conditions. So a good DV camera may be much better in low light than even the best high-definition camcorder of the same size.
Camcorders are now available that record direct to DVD (NOT advisable as John Smith said: the DVD medium is not robust for long-term storage and the necessary MPEG2 compression robs your source video of the quality it would have on tape and is much harder to edit).
Camcorders are also available that record directly to hard disk. Depending on the implementation, and your handiness with computers, thes might be just right FOR SOME USES. In particular they permit much more rapid turnaround between shooting and editing, so they might be right for something that is needed quickly but where archiving is not important (for example, shots of a football team at practice). But (as you have undoubtedly discovered with your 30gig Sony) you must download the material from camera to hard drive when the camera fills up, and this is not as easy as putting in a new tape. Also, the file may not be stored on disk in the relatively uncompressed, and easily edited, DV format. Finally, no hard drive is as safe a storage medium as a tape. With a hard drive and especially with a DVD, you risk losing everything to a crash or scratch; with a tape, you risk at most losing a few frames to a dropout caused by imperfections in the media.
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I would recommend that you search for articles and forums about camcorders to learn what is available. There is a lot of information out there. As for me, I would certainly not recommend Hi8, or even Digital8, at this time. Choose DV if you have a pressing reason for it, such as cost or the need to get good images in low light; otherwise make yourself more future proof with HDV or AVCHD. They will produce high-quality DVD's when "downconverted" when capturing them into the computer or when exporting them from the nonlinear editor or authoring program (experiment to find which method is best). Unless you are using AVCHD, which is not a tape-based format, stick with tape (for now) if you are concerned with long-term storage.
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