Authoring For DVD

I will not go into this much detail about this here, but simply give you the basic steps and show you where some tools are so you know. Going to DVD Lab's site show a In-Depth Guide about all the funtions and is REAL easy to follow.

Let's Start

1. Open up DVD Lab
2. Select NTSC and Normal for the Project on the Popup Box
3. Import your assets (use the open folder icon in the assets window)
4. When the box Pops up appears, I Choose to Demultiplex, but it really is not needed, but this is habit for me just in case if there is a problem, DVD Lab will tell you. Also, if you are not happy with the audio format, you will now have a demultiplexed audio to edit to wav or AC3 (which would be my only other choice and will require a Plugin).
5. Drag and drop you .mpv (mpeg with no sound) in the movie box above.
6. Now drag and drop the .mpa (audio to the mpeg) in to the same movie box or you will have no sound for your mpeg.
7. Go to the tools Tab up top. There you will see a bunch of things you can do - add a audio delay, parse mpeg, fix headers, etc. The one thing I would make sure to do is "Write GOP Timecode if you are going to make menus. This will help with any errors if any. You should not need to worry about the audio going out of sync. You will see the difference and can make adjustments if it does. You may want to test first before doing this.
8. Now go ahead and make your menus and add music to them (same way you did it for the movie, you just add it to the menu section instead). If you have a MP3 you want to put on a menu, I would use "ffmpeggui03c." A real quick and easy program.
9. When you are done with all that, GoTo the "Project Tab" and select Compile DVD. It will tell you if you have errors or problems and you can fix from there. If not complie and save a .iso if you want to.
10. You can burn with DVD Lab, or burn with your favorite program using the folders created or the .iso you made if you selected that. I would make sure first to check in Power DVD to see the audio is ok and then burn to a DVD-RW and test in your player if you can. If not, you will just need to try the DVD-R in your player and see if it all works right. Trial and Error if this is your first time, but DVD Lab is a pretty nice program that is simple.


GRAPHS

Graphs are probably one of the Greatest things for your system. I am going to basically say this is a combination of audio and video codecs/decoders. With the right ones, you will have a jerk free clean picture along with great audio and low CPU usage. With the wrong one and configuration you will end up with high cpu usage, freezes in video, and bad audio. You will need to try a variety in order to see what is best for your system. I would say on average, most use the Cyberlink DVB Video codec and the nVidia Audio codec. While for me, I have problems with picking between the Cyberlink/nVidia codec for video, but performance wise on the audio, nVidia Rules! This is not set in stone and will depend on what components your PC is made of. I would also reccomend using hardware acceleration. I use the MT autograph feature once I have decided on the codec that I am using, but that's for my sytem. You will need to play with these for awhile in order to tune these in.
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