Guides

Most of the complexity in learning to make DVDs is in the video encoding. There are fairly standard settings that you'll usually use for audio, so you don't have to make many decisions. Since you'll need some information about your audio when you're encoding video later, it's easiest to prepare your audio assets first.

This is the third guide for the Basic DVD Authoring Project. If you're not familiar with the project you may want to start with the first guide. If you're just trying to learn about the audio formats used on DVD this can be useful on its own. If you're just beginning with digital video you may want to read our Digital Video Basics guides first.

Required Software

Basic DVD Authoring Project guides:

• Part 1 - Introduction
• Part 2 - Analysis
• Part 3 - Prepare Audio Assets
• Part 4a - Prepare NTSC Video
• Part 4b - Prepare PAL Video
• Part 5 - Calculate Video Bitrates

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Preparation
3. Software
4. DGIndex
5. AviSynth
6. Demux
7. Encoding AC-3