Project Size

Ex-Pinnacle User wrote on 9/16/2009, 1:31 PM

I am trying to cram as much material onto a dvd. Having spent 50mins rendering, i find that I could have added another 700MB of material to my project. is there a way, prior to rendering, for me to know that the size of the project will be [ex menus etc] when i transfer to DVD Architect?

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 9/16/2009, 1:40 PM

You get a third party bitrate calculator. Vegas uses between 6 and 8 mbps bitrate for DVDs, so you just calculate it yourself.

Ex-Pinnacle User wrote on 9/16/2009, 2:52 PM

Just so i understand you: max rendered file size in MB = Total time (in sec) X 8?

Eugenia wrote on 9/16/2009, 3:44 PM

No, not really. Check here: http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

Terry Esslinger wrote on 9/16/2009, 8:53 PM

The amount of material you can get on the DVD is regulated by the bitrate. You can get about 70 minutes of MPEG2 material at a decent bit rate on a SL DVD. If you start reducing the bitrate to get more material you start noticing a decrease in quality. The point where quality loss is too much is different for everyones taste. A lot of people put 2 hours of video on a DVD and thinks it looks OK. But a lot depends on the footage. If you use DVDA they have a setting "Fit to DVD" that you can use. Do so at your own risk.

MSmart wrote on 9/17/2009, 12:05 AM

How many minutes do you have on your timeline? I know it's more complex then just knowing how many minutes, but will give us an idea of what you're looking at.

As Terry suggested, lower the bitrate in DVDA to get more video on the DVD. I've lowered the bitrate down to 6000 and got good results in a video just over 2 hours.

Added: Sounds like you are rendering your video to MPEG in VMS, if you use DVDA to lower the bitrate, it will have to reencode the mpeg video and you will lose some quality. That's why I always render to AVI in VMS. You're milage may very depending on what your source video is.