Using SUPER to create a DVD compliant Mpeg2 file
This tutorial will show you how to create a Mpeg2 file which can be used to create a Video DVD.Importing your video file into SUPER
Start the program you should see a screen like this.
The suggested way to add a video file is to drag and drop a file from windows explorer into the white box at the bottom of the window.
To open a window explorer window you can Right hand click on your start menu and select Explore from the options.
When you have browsed to the file you want to encode you can drag and drop it into the white box at the bottom of the SUPER encoder programme.
Changing the Encoding settings
To make a DVD compliant file we need to set the following settings.
Output container : mpg (MpegII)
Output Video Codec: MPEG-II
Output Audio Codec: AC3
You change these by selecting the options from the drop down menus at the top of the programme window.
They are marked in Red, Green and Ble respectively.
We then need to change the the section below to use ffmpeg by clicking the round button to the left of the text ffmpeg.
There are other settings that you may need to change. Change the Video scale size to 720 x 576 . Set the Aspect to 4:3. Set the Frame / Sec option to 25.
Set the Bitrate to between 2496 to 5000-odd depending on how large you want your output file to be. The larger the file you create, the higher quality it will be visually. If you are looking to fit 1 hour or less on a DVD disk you can choose a high bitrate. If you are looking to squeeze over an hour on a disk you may need to choose a lower bittrate.
Audio settings should be
Sampling frequency: 48000
Channels : 2
Bitrate kps : 256
DVD Language : default
For other options see the screenshot above.
To do this click on the
Button. And tick the Deinterlace button in the window that appears.
You can click on the O button again to make that window dissappear.
When you have set these options you can save a "Settings Profile" so that you don't have to go throught this process again.
To save your current settings right hand click on the Main window of the programme and select Export (Save) A Super " Settings Profile" . Choose a location to save this file. You can later import the Settings when you next use the programme by selecting Import (Load) a SUPER "Settings Profile"
You can download and Import the following settings profile; Profile for creating a Mpeg2 PAL file with a 4:3 aspect set.
Encoding your File
When you have set all your Encoding options if you want to you can queue up more than one file to encode. These are listed in the white box at the bottom of the window. Just drag more files into this window to queue them up.You also need to choose a place to save your output file. To do this right click on the main window and select Output File Saving Management from the list.
Choose a location on your computer where you have enough space for the output file. It could be up to 4 gig if you are filling a whole DVD.
We are now ready to encode the file.
Click on Encode (Active Files) to start this process. When the process begins you should see a progress bar. When it has finished, if you don't see any error messages then check in the output locations for your DVD compliant Mpeg2 file
The ultimate test to see if you file has been encoded corrently is to try to make a DVD with it. Most DVD authoring programmes will tell you if your file is the right format or not when you try to import it. See Compiling / Creating a DVD
You may also wish to add subtitles to the DVD so you can see Creating subtiles help.