Hi.
I've got around several thousand hours of interviews and group discussions on tape. Most are stereo recordings.
I want to create an audio only DVD, NOT a DVD-Audio format which requires new hardware, but a regular DVD-Video which can be played on a normal DVD player without any special mods or support of MP3 (my old Sony DVD player cannot play them, so I suppose others can't too!). Just like you would buy in a video shop.
I can get the audio onto a PC in WAV format easily enough (WAV as this is the best start point for compression rather than a lossy compressed format).
In my looking around, I need think I need to encode the audio into AAC format for DVDs.
If so, what is best for spoken word. No music, the occassional bit of laughter. Normally nice and clean sound. Very little background noise (occassional cough, chair squeak, that sort of thing).
I know the answer is to try it out and see, but I'm looking for any recommendations.
I'm going to use Nero Encode to produce AAC format files. I think this are OK, though, again, recommendations would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!
A single DVD would have maybe 50 discussions on it. Each discussion will have several "chapters" to make navigating to them easier.
So.
I am starting with SEVERAL large boxes of tapes.
I have a PC and I can (and have) transferred some tapes into WAV format. The sound quality is excellent (in comparison to the original tape - can't tell the difference).
I want to produce DVDs of the discussions.
Why a DVD rather than just CDs?
1 - I know I CAN compress the audio to make it smaller. The final quality is not going to be that badly messed up with. I did convert a few WAVs to MP3 and they sounded just as good.
2 - I intend to include (eventually), video of the interviews/discussions, so a DVD is the better format.
3 - Because I want to.
I think I am probably going to need a professional DVD authoring package of some description. All the "cheaper" ones seem to be fairly basic (unless I'm missing something).
Thanks in advance,
Richard Q.
