How to fit 60 min onto 4.7 Gb

DSFletcher wrote on 5/21/2004, 5:56 AM
I am very new to this and this has probably been addressed somewhere earlier in this forum. Please bear with me.
I've got 60 mins of video that I need to fit onto a standard 4.7 Gb DVD.
I use MS3 to edit with and Ulead to burn with.
After editing, I render and select the .avi option and the est. size is substantially more than the DVD will hold. In fact, after trial and error, I have found that about 17 mins is about the maximum. Obviously, I want the best picture I can get.
This DVD will be used both for TV and PC use. Surely there is a way to fit more onto this disk than just 17 min.

Feel free to email me dave@fdbc.org
Thanks.

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 5/21/2004, 6:21 AM
Sometimes I wish Sony would open a forum for frequently asked questions. This one gets asked about once a week.

Here's the most recent discussion:
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=278660&Replies=9&Page=2
dand9959 wrote on 5/21/2004, 4:40 PM
Don't render to uncompressed AVI...that is HUGE.
Render to DV avi...or better yet MPEG-2 (which is the format that eventually ends up on the DVD, anyway.)
DSFletcher wrote on 5/22/2004, 4:01 AM
You are correct. A FAQ forum would be beneficial. Thanks.
DSFletcher wrote on 5/22/2004, 4:02 AM
Thanks. That helps.
dand9959 wrote on 5/22/2004, 11:49 AM
one note: don't render to mpeg2 if you are going to do further editing on the video - you'll lose too much detail in compressing to mpeg2.

rule of thumb: if you are still editing, render to dv avi.
JDski wrote on 6/1/2004, 1:40 PM
I should have started reading these forums before I started my project.
I'm currently taking old 8mm films and ultimately putting them on DVD. MS has helped in restoring some of the color changes from age which has been pretty cool. But I've noticed considerable loss in quality from the original video recording.
After reading here, I realized it is at least partially due to the re-rendering I'm doing.
After recording the 8mm film onto 8mm video, I then record it using my Creative Video Blaster. The Video Blaster saves it in it's own unique format and then it has to be converted to MPEG2 using a seperate utility that come with the Video Blaster software. From there I edit it in MS.
Now I see that maybe I should get a TV tuner card that captures video to .avi initially.

--edit--
After writing this, I tried to load up the .bts file in MS that the Video Blaster initially produces from recordings. Even though under "all media types" that format isn't listed, selecting "all files" allowed me to load it directly into MS and it works!
Saves me one less conversion.