I am trying to put all of season 1 of gossip girl which is in avi format on to dvds and give it to my girlfriend for christmas. The test dvd that I made using nero vision looked really good and had a custom menu and everything, but when I played it the audio was all out of sync. The audio was fine before I converted it. so is there a better program that I can use? Could something just have gone wrong when it was converting? Any help would be great because I'm stumped about what I should do now.
If the output from Nero is saved to the hard drive (in a folder) instead of being burned, does it play ok?
I deleted the files after it did not work, should I try it again and see what happens? or should I use another program?
I would check the files to see if the audio was CBR or VBR. I find that variable bit rate audio in AVI often gives problems with sync after conversion. Drag an avi file onto GSpot to see. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/gspot.cfm If they are VBR, convert with Nero and save to the hard drive then play them to check sync. Optionally, 'DVD Flick' or 'FAVC' do a good job of converting avi to dvd. Both can create a menu - but DVD Flick is limited as to content.
cool thanks, im going to try and use dvd flick they are vbr audio files so I will report back after I see if it works
Yeah, I've had sync issues with Nero, too, especially when trying to do multiple videos at once. I've found that ConvertXtoDVD does a good job with just about any video. The only files that have given me problems in ConvertX are *.FLVs - they seem to always end up out of sync. You can let ConvertX do all of the episodes you want on the disc, at once, and let it create a menu during the process. On the other hand, the way I do it is to let ConvertX do the converting - a few episodes here and a few episodes there - then use TMPGEnc DVD Author to put all of the episodes together into one DVD image while creating a nice custom menu (using my own pictures for the background(s) and buttons). It takes a little bit of forethought and some simple math to determine how big to make each episode so that you can fit all that you want on each disc. Conversely, if you have a few bucks to spend, you could buy her a new DivX-enabled DVD player (I paid $40 for mine two years ago - you may be able to find one cheaper) and just burn those *.AVIs as data and save yourself several days' worth of work.
