Tuesday, January 30, 2007

AVI to VCD with Xing MPEG Encoder

By:Parth Barot

Download, install and register these applications:
DivX Operational Player
Xing MPEG Encoder
VCD Cutter

1) Open DivX Operational Player first. Load your divx movie. Select with BEGIN/END buttons maximal range. In Operational Wizard press Audio Fragment button.

2) Type filename of WAV file: for example, "MYAUDIO". Press Next. Select NO COMPRESSION. Press Extract.

3) Converting your newly created wav file into the right format for MPEG is quite simple.. Download and install Xing MPEG Encoder. Open Xing MPEG Encoder, Click on NEW. You will see a list of profiles for use chose the following: STREAM PROFILES/VIDEO CD/PAL, click NEXT. Chose the checkbox labeled AUDIO ONLY. Chosing this option will then grey out the video box. Chose the BROWSE button under AUDIO FILENAME and locate your AUDIO wav file ("MYAUDIO.WAV"), then click BROWSE again under TARGET FILENAME to chose where you wish to save your encoded audio file. Then click FINISH. Press the ENCODE BUTTON to start encoding your wav file.

4) Now we have an AVI file which is your divx movie and a .wav file and an .MPA audio file. You may wish to test your MPA file to see if the sound came out correctly. After you are happy with the new audio source you can now delete the huge wav file that is taking up valuable room on your hard drive

5) Again open Xing MPEG Encoder and click NEW. Once again click on VIDEO CD/PAL, click next. Chose the checkbox labeled SYSTEM this time because we are going to glue the audio with the video for the final conversion to MPEG. Chose the BROWSE button under VIDEO FILENAME you will have to copy your divx movie to your hard drive if you haven’t already done so, locate your divx movie on your hard drive. Chose the BROWSE button under AUDIO FILENAME and locate your AUDIO MPA file, then click BROWSE again under TARGET FILENAME to chose where you wish to save your encoded MPEG file. Then click FINISH. Press the ENCODE BUTTON to start encoding your MPEG file.

6) Download and install VCDCutter. Open VCDCutter and click on FILE/OPEN MOVIES or CTRL + O, chose your newly created MPEG. Move the slider bar to the start of the movie, go to the top tool bar and choose EDIT/CLIP MARK IN or F5. Now move the slider bar to roughly the center of the movie and chose a good spot to mark the out section example a fade to black transition or cut scene.

7) Once this is done go once again to the top tool bar and choose EDIT/CLIP MARK OUT or F6. once this is done press F7 to add the first selection to your CLIP LIST. Now where you have just chosen your mark out position this becomes your MARK IN position so again press F5. Once you have done this move the slider bar to the end of the movie and press F6 again for the MARK OUT position of clip two, now press F7 to add this selection to your CLIP LIST.

8) Now you should be looking at your CLIP LIST tab and see the two selections that you have made. Right click on the first clip and chose SAVE THIS CLIP to save it to your chosen location. (NOTE: the clips will save to the default save location unless you manually change the location by pressing F3, once you have pressed F3 go to the SETTINGS tab then BROWSE for the WORKING DIRECTORY of your choice, it’s a good idea to have a folder on a secondary partition on your hard drive for doing this. You should now have two MPEG files that can now be transferred directly into NERO Burning Rom. Download the latest from http://www.nero.com/

8) This step is perhaps the easiest step of the VCD creation. Open up Nero Burning Rom and go to FILE/NEW or CTRL + N. Select VIDEO CD, check the the boxes CREATE STANDARD COMPLIANT CD and USE CD-I APPLICATION. Next we go to the LABEL tab and name the fist disc under VOLUME LABEL. Now click the NEW button. In the FILE BROWSER, locate your two MPEG files. Drag and drop the first part of the movie to the VIDEO Window. The file you have just put in this window will then be analyzed for compatibility with VIDEO CD, once this part is complete (it doesn’t take too long) simply open the WRITE DIALOG box. Make sure that the two boxes WRITE and FINALISE CD are checked and then continue on to press the WRITE button. Repeat all of these steps for the second part of the movie.

You now have yourself a PAL encoded VIDEO CD that you can play on your home dvd player.