How do you figure running time of DVD?

williamconifer wrote on 12/18/2003, 8:52 AM
Greets,

I am finishing up a DVD promo for a band. I know the running time of the video from Vegas but I have included a section of the DVD where you can listen to the whole Live CD that the DVD is promoting. How is running time figured on a DVD? and where can you find the info to figure it out?

Thanks
jack

Comments

kameronj wrote on 12/18/2003, 9:07 AM
I think I know what you are asking - and the answer is moot.

Or...that is ... the answer is relative, at best.

I could have a DVD that has 3 video projects on it, multiple menus, photo slide shows, blah blah blah....and since it is interactive - there can not really be a "running time".

Although, if each of the 3 vid projects is 45 minutes each...I could say that the program run time (combined) is an hour and a half (2 hours and 15 minutes for them fancy "city" folks and all them book readin people!). But that is just simple math.

I don't think you are going to find a property that says...."The video you have here is x-minutes long" since it isn't really based on time, but bitrate. Two 30 minute video clips at higher bitrates are still two 30 minute video clips at lower bitrates.

So...you may just have to bite the bullet on this one and do some old fashioned long math.
jetdv wrote on 12/18/2003, 9:21 AM
Although, if each of the 3 vid projects is 45 minutes each...I could say that the program run time (combined) is an hour and a half. But that is just simple math.

Umm...... Two hours and 15 minutes???? You left out the THIRD video.
kameronj wrote on 12/18/2003, 11:20 AM
I said it was simple math - not correct math!!!

:-)

(thanks for the catch!!)
BrianStanding wrote on 12/18/2003, 12:58 PM
Here's a little freeware timecode calculator that will help avoid such adding mistakes..

http://www.sssm.com/tools/tools.html

Great tool! I use it all the time.