Here you go:
First and foremost, you need the following programs:
1.Nero-I have version 5.5.7.2
2.Tmpeg-this can be downloaded for free from
http://www.tmpgenc.net/
Step 1: Open up Nero, scroll down on the left side and choose ‘Video-CD’ then a small menu box will appear with tabs on the top.
Step 2: Choose Pal or NTSC from the ‘Video CD’ tab
Step 3: You can create a menu (check the Enable menu box under the Menu tab) and use a picture from your HD to act as the background, I tried it a few times, it seems a little glitchy, I still need to figure out some things with it, but it’s a nice option nonetheless.
Step 4: If you choose not to have a menu, click on the ‘New’ button the top right side.
Step 5: After hitting ‘New’ a box will blow up and fill the left side (Video X…mine says 2). This is where your video clips will be dragged. On the right side, you should see a box (File Browser) that displays your HD and the folders in that drive. Choose whichever folder the mpeg’s are located and drag them into the empty box on the left that has buttons stating: Track, Title, Duration, Pause and Size.
Step 6: An ‘Adding file’ box will pop up when you drag files over. If you DON’T get an error message, all is good! If you do get an error message you will have to convert that Mpeg or .avi/divx file. ****ALL AVI’S MUST BE CONVERTED TO MPEGS USING TMPEG ****
Step 7: Assuming you did not receive any error messages, double click on the title on the left and change the ‘Pause after Track’ under the ‘Attributes’ tab to (1) one second. This will only add one-second stops in between tracks. IF you decided to use a menu, you will have to shorten the name of the file (click on the ‘menu’ tab…if you decided not to use a menu, the ‘menu’ tab will not be shown), I just delete the name and leave it blank. I noticed that after 8 or so letters the filename got cut off. Also, under the ‘menu’ tab you can use a still picture from that Mpeg, this will be the thumbnail used on display when you pop the cdr in your player. If your done adding files, simply click on ‘File’ then ‘Write CD’ and click on ‘Write’ and off you go.
Some tips:
If you don’t convert the files that give you errors they might come out all screwed up, or Nero will attempt to convert them, which then could take more than an hour. Tmpeg takes about 45-50 mins to convert 700Mb’s (at least for me it did). If you use an option and notice some of the thumbnails are black or show static when you know your copy shouldn’t this is hinting that the file will come out corrupt.
Also, the menu screen on my Samsung seemed to be a bit glitchy. I burned one VCD that had 28 video clips on them. The DVD player would scroll thru the menu on its own and would not let me select any clips to watch. In this case, I just hit ‘stop’ and then punched in the chapter# like: 01 and was immediately taken to the first clip. From here I did not have any problems. Also, my player only fast-forwarded at 8X, I assume this is due to the CDRr and the fact that it’s a VCD.
Tmpeg does have a feature to let you split up a large Mpeg, I haven’t figured it out yet.
Alright onto Tmpeg:
The main screen should display a grey screen in the middle and at the bottom you should see multiple options. The ones that concern you are:
Video source, Output file name, Setting, and Load.
Step 1: To begin, hit ‘Browse’ for Video source and choose an Mpeg or Avi.
Step 2: Click ‘browse’ for Output file name and save the file as the whatever you wish, make sure not to overwrite your original file, so it might be a good idea to create a folder just for this project.
Step 3: Click on the ‘Setting’ button and click on the ‘Video’ tab, look all the way on the bottom, see ‘Motion search precision?’ I use ‘Normal’ so might as well go with that for now…I didn’t notice any difference between the VCD copy and the original on my HD.
Step 4: Then select ‘Load’ and the folder should open under X:/ program files/Tmpeg/template, choose ‘VideoCD (NTSC) for North America and VideoCD (PAL)
Step 5: Click on File/Save Project, it’s a .tpr file extension, save this in the same folder the converted (I will later refer to this as ‘fixed’) file will be going to. Let’s say you chose jenna.mpeg, it will appear as jenna.tpr.
Step 6: Then click on File/Batch Encode, click ‘Add’ and select the .tpr file extension you saved. Its original extension will appear again (ie. Mpeg or AVI). Then click ‘Run’ and you should start seeing each frame being scanned on your screen. Now, go eat dinner and take a shower….
Step 7: Now go back to Nero and go thru selecting Video CD, and drag the ‘fixed’ mpeg or Avi from your new folder over to be burned. Go ahead and start burning it (File/Write). I have an 8X SCSI burner and it takes 10 minutes roughly. I tried to be as thorough as possible. I went through the steps myself as I wrote this. If you have any questions, feel free to pm me, good luck!
