HELP! My project is too big for PAL

BPB wrote on 9/22/2004, 7:31 PM

sorry I'm new at this.
I just completed my 1 hr 31 minute video. Rendered, put it in DVDA and made an NTSC DVD no problem. I now need to render it out as a PAL project for a German company and It says I'm at 149% of a 4.7 gig disk at the 8.000 Mbs default bitrate. Is this because of the frame speed and what is the least damaging way to reduce the size? Reduce the bitrate...I have to go below 6.000 to fit. Or will DVDA optimize when it says it will recompress?

Thanks for the help
this project is sending me around the bend

Comments

DVDeviations wrote on 9/22/2004, 11:44 PM

I have sent many projects to France, Germany and Switzerland on NTSC format. Apparently, most DVD players in Europe will play NTSC.

Did the German company specify PAL?

farss wrote on 9/22/2004, 11:50 PM

And in any case PAL should takeup less space due to lower frame rate although I don't know how that'll offset against more pixels per frame. In DV25 it all balances out but on VHS you can fit more onto a tape in PAL than NTSC.

Either way for that size project you'll certainly have to drop the bitrate down and I's suggest going to ac3 audio or is that the problem?
Are you encoding straight from Vegas or letting DVDA do the work?
I never do the later but I'm suspecting if you did it in DVDA then maybe the NTSC template uses ac3 and the PAL PCM audio?

Bob

PeterWright wrote on 9/23/2004, 12:30 AM

Strange. I've just done an NTSC version of a PAL project. Identical apart from video format - I Saved as NTSC version, changed Project properties to NTSC and let DVDA convert it.

The PAL DVD is 2.31 Gb, and the NTSC is 2.69 Gb.