make DVD from files captured by Marvel G400-TV?

[sjoezepoes]

Hallo, I want to know what the procedure is to make DVD's from captured Marvel-files.
Right now, I'm using AVI_IO to capture from TV-tuner (I found that Virtualdub gave me too many dropped frames). I'm using the Picvideo MJPEG codec with quality 20 (=highest). These files I load into Premiere 6.5, I edit the commercials out of it and then render it with the embedded Adobe MPEG encoder to mpg. I use MPEG-2 variable bitrate, bitrate around 6000-6500kbs.
I multiplex the video and audio and I choose upper field first for rendering options (I found out that the first DVD I made wasn't player smooth on my home DVD, it was with lower field first...).
Is the Marvel fieldorder B (upper field)?
Then I load these files into DVDit! and convert it to DVD with AC-3 audio.
All this works but are there any other methods to go faster? (for example can you capture with Marvel in MPEG2?) and are there any better authoring soft for making DVD's.
So I want to know: which is the easiest and fastest way to make DVD's with a Marvel G400TV.
My specs: AMD Athlon XP1600+ on Soyo Dragon Plus MB with 512 DDR-Ram (2100), 20 Gb system drive (5400 RPM), two 40 Gb videodrives (7200 RPM), Matrox Marvel G400-TV, using on-board audio (C-media 8738).

Thanks.

[JonH]

I can't answer a lot of your questions, but the mjpeg files are field order B. I choose the lower field order (A), however, when making the mpeg file for dvd burning. I just make the mpeg in MS pro and then import into Movie Factory, match file specs with burning specs, make a menu and burn it. Quality is pretty good.
I'm using Picvideo since replacing my g400-tv card. Why are you using it instead of the Matrox codec?

[Sciascia]

For speed and quality CCE (Cinemacraft Craft) can't be beat by any other standalone encoder. I would save the entire project in MJPEG and the I used Virtual Dub with some light filtering (all at low settings...smart deinterlace, 2D cleaner and temporal cleaner) then frameserve to CCE with a DVD profile loaded. It was a lot faster and the quality was great. By using a little prefiltering it would clean up any noise that would be detected as motion and made it easier for the encoder to make a nice clean video and not waste bits on noise.

CCE makes a plugin for Adobe Premiere that is a little less complicated and is just as fast. It is much better than anything they have built in. It is a lot cheaper then the standalone encoder. You can create your MPEG straight from the timeline.

TMPGEnc is another great encoder, it is almost as good and is a lot cheaper. It is slower, but for the price it is the best out there. You would have to use it as a standalone or buy the videotools.net video server plugin for Premiere ($25) and you can send anything from the timeline to almost any external encoder. The videoserver is a great tool to have regardless. I use it with Ulead MSP and it works great. Someone makes a free videoserver but I dont remember who or where. It isn't quite as nice but it would work.

[Debbie]

This is the way I do it:

Capture using AVI_IO, PicVideo codec set at 20.
Set TMPGEnc for the same frame size 704 x 576 PAL.
Use the edit feature of TMPGEnc to remove the unwanted parts of the movie. You will end up with (sevral) clips.
Use again TMPGEnc to join all the clips.
I author in Ulead DVD Workshop. You can leave all the clips separate and set DVD Workshop to go to the next clip, just like chapters. TMPGEnc also have a good authoring package.

Debbie

[Hulk]

I do it the same way Debbie does except that if I'm going for the absolute best quality, I compress to huffyuv since at quality 20, PICVideo requires almost as much bandwidth as huffuyv, but is a lossy format. Huffyuv does have a higher processor overhead though.

- Mark

[daniele greco]

Hi,
what field is right to be used in TMPGenc? When I use field B, with the interlaced video from Marvel I get a jerky mpeg2. Shouls I use field A? I knew that Marvel has field B first, but maybe that is only for dmb1 codec?

[cheese_eater]

I couldn't be sure. I've always exported stright from the premiere Timeline using the packaged encoder. I've also used BBmpeg but it is a LOT slower, but with improved quality. Does anyone here know how to render out using XP? Everytime I use an External Mjpeg codec(mogan for instance), the Interlacing goes AWOL. And XP doesn't seem very keen on installing the Matrox Mjpeg codec. It's a pain cause I have to keep exporting on my main machine, making it unuseable for a good 5-6 hours, where as if I could render it all on another machine with the codec installed.... Who cares how long it takes?