4. Calculation and Cutting
UPDATE: There are now TWO ways to cut SVCD. The one stated
below is the OLD, horrible way.... BUT it is the only way to
be able to properly OVERLAP a couple of seconds in your cuts.
My preferred method is what I have called Calculation
and Cutting Version II.
Now you have a pretty big file in front of you, beautiful quality.
How do you burn it to play it on a DVD Player? Well, we can
use the tools in TMPEG by going to File -> MPEG Tools, but first,
we should do some calculating.
First of all, you CAN fit a maximum of 738megs on a 74min CD
by burning in Mode 2/XA, which is what Nero will burn in automatically.
I recommend using 74mins because other lengths/sizes will most
likely not work in your player, but only you can test to find
out.
So let's say you have a 2.1 gig SVCD file for a 2hr movie (This
is just approximate). You will obviously need 3 CDs, as is the
case for most SVCDs. Please note that in TMPGEnc you can only
type in the time interval in seconds. So a 2hr movie (7200 seconds)
would be cut into 3 like this...
Part 1 - 0 -> 2405 seconds
Part 2 - 2400 -> 4805 seconds
Part 3 - 4800 -> 7200 seconds (end of movie)
Notice that I repeated 5 seconds to allow for error and being
cut off in the middle of a sentence. If you've made it this
far, you can certainly do your own calculations.
IMPORTANT! The SIZE of the mpeg file DOES MATTER...the
maximum amount of MB that you can fit in MODE2 (when burning
VCD/SVCD) is 10 times the number of minutes. So 740megs of VCD
or SVCD fit on a 74min CD, and 800megs of VCD or SVCD fit on
an 80min CD.. and so on.
Now... let's actually do it. Go to File -> MPEG Tools, and click
on the last tab, "Cut/Join". Click the add button and select
your 2.1gig SVCD file and from the scroll down menu select "MPEG2
Super Video CD (VBR)".
If at this point you are in tremendous need of space, go ahead
and delete your orginal VOB's and/or DVD2AVI project file, but
I DON'T RECOMMEND it.
Double click on the filename or click on Edit. And for range
set from "0" to end of your first cut, in my example would be
"2405". Press ok. At the bottom of the window select your Output
and remember to label it PART I, don't try to overwrite the
file you're using! Press start.
Update: If you open the .mpg in Windows Media Player,
play it for a few seconds, and PAUSE it... TMPGEnc will not
freeze when selecting EDIT to select the start and end time.
Leave WMP paused in the background. (Thanks go to John Salmon
for this info!)
For second cut, double click on the filename of the mpg again,
set the beginning to, as in my example, "2400" and end to "4805".
Press Ok, CHANGE OUTPUT TO PART II, then press start.
Repeat for however many parts you have remembering to change
your output file. You should now have files big enough to fit
on your CD.
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