Help 2hr 10 min video on 1 DVD

Billae wrote on 5/28/2006, 2:51 PM

Well I can't cut anymore and I am still over the 2 hour mark and need to make a single DVD. Its a ballet performance. Any ideas? I am thinking of using DVD Arch. Compression. Would that be bad? Also I don't have the double layer media. So that's out. Any suggestions would be great.

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Chienworks wrote on 5/28/2006, 2:58 PM

It depends on how much quality you're willing to sacrafice. 2 hours isn't a set figure, it's just a suggestion. I've often fit close to 3 hours on a single disc. All it takes is a lower bitrate. The tradeoff is that the image quality goes down as the bitrate decreases, so that may not be an option. And, being a ballet, you probably have lots of motion most of the time. Motion doesn't compress as well as relatively static scenes.

Try rendering VBR at about 4,400,000 average and see what it looks like.

Billae wrote on 5/28/2006, 3:00 PM

Thanks so much I'll give it a try...

johnmeyer wrote on 5/28/2006, 3:58 PM

Two hours and ten minutes requires an average bitrate of 4,498,000 bps, or less.

Cut a DVD-RW (or +RW) at this rate and view it on your monitor (you don't have to do the whole ballet -- just take 3-5 minutes). If you want to do a REALLY good test, also encode the same 3-5 minutes at 8,000,000 bps. Put this and the other render on a DVD-RW (or +RW) and see if you can see significant difference. If yes, then buy some dual DVD cases and burn on two DVDs. You should NEVER get hung up on have to deliver everything on some set number of discs. They're only $0.50 each. Hopefully you are charging at least $10 per copy.