"optimum" rendering format recording to CD

James_the_Grate wrote on 12/11/2001, 8:13 AM

I have a number of video segments that are approximately 75-80 minutes long. I would like to render these to a format that can be place on a single CD. Using mpeg2 with default settings produces a file that is over 2gig -- obviously too large for a CD.

I'm looking for an "optimum" format that maintains acceptable quality, but keeps the size down toless than 650 meg. I would like to be able to play back on either a DVD player (video-CD) or on computer.

Any suggestions?

Comments

jgourd wrote on 12/11/2001, 8:22 AM

Your choices are limited when it comes to being able to play it back on a DVD player. You pretty much have to go with the VCD template.

The good news is that 80 minute CDs will hold your whole file. The bad news is that VCD is pretty bad. You will actually do better printing to VHS.

bstaley wrote on 12/11/2001, 8:44 AM

You should probably render to a DivX AVI file. It would fit on the CD and it would still be high quality and you could watch it on the computer. The downside is that you can't watch it on a DVD player. When affordable DVD burners come out you could just render the DivX file to MPEG2 and then you can watch it on a DVD player.

You can get the DivX codec at www.divx.com.

dsanders wrote on 12/11/2001, 9:43 AM

Simply rendering a file to MPEG-2 will NOT allow it to be played in a DVD player. You must render to MPEG-2 using a very specific set of MPEG-2 options, then import the MPEG-2 file into a DVD authoring program. The authoring program is needed to create the files that a DVD player actually reads. As of now, VV only supports the creation of DVD-compliant MPEG-2 files. It will not allow you to create the "VOB" files that DVD players need.