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farss wrote on 11/4/2003, 4:10 PM
The defaults in the DVDA templates will give excellent quality.
Really depends on how much material you are trying to fit on the DVD and what type of audio you are going to use.
GASCA wrote on 11/4/2003, 4:23 PM
Ok, am going to be more I specify, ok, I I need to put 80 minutes of video or more in a DVD, but when rendereo with biratge to 6.000 apparently is problem, somebody knows to whatever is necessary to leave biratge so that it does not find problems?


farss wrote on 11/4/2003, 4:40 PM
80 minutes at 6 Mbits / sec will fit IF you use ac3 audio.

Make certain in DVDA you have selected 4.7GB model, this can cause mighty confusion.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/4/2003, 5:05 PM
If you goto www.dvdrhelp.com, you can find some programs/utilitys to tell you how you should set your bitrate for the length you want.

I found out (the hard way) that my DVD authoring program (a copy of Showbiz DVD that came with my burner) only supports up to 6 Mbits/sec. So, when I would render above that bitrater, the Authoring program would re-render it!
farss wrote on 11/4/2003, 5:34 PM
Just be carfeul going tooo high, some le cheapo players seem to have problems at high bit rates even if you are within the DVD specs.
I'd suggest the DVDA defaults give about as good as you're going to get for that class of encoder. Bear in mind we're only coming off DV to start with.

High end products encode form SDI feeds so it's got a better source to start with. The mpeg encoders must have some problems with the DV artifacts, making them look a little worse. I've noticed on material that DV encodes well the results can look stunning, did a job last year from studio master on SP and you really couldn't pick the difference between direct SP playback and off the DVD, at least not on monitors that I can afford. Crappy stuff just gets a bit worse, really good footage stays really good IMHO.