Trouble Rendering a 2 hour DVD

Stonefield wrote on 1/21/2006, 12:17 PM
Hey guys,

A local club owner wants me to put an one hour and fifty five minute tape I made for them onto a DVD. I rendered out the same project to the default DVD NTSC MPEG-2 template in Vegas. It came out to just over 5 gigs, thus, unable to fit it onto a DVD.

Any idea how to make an under two hour video render smaller ( but not much ) so as to fit it onto a DVD ?

In future videos, I'll just make the clip shorter to about 90 minutes, but I'd hate to lose all the work I've done on this one.

Thanks...

Stan

Comments

John_Cline wrote on 1/21/2006, 12:43 PM
Render it using the DVD Architect template and change the bitrate to 8,000,000 max, 5,000,000 average and 3,000,000 minimum. Make sure the quality slider is set at 31 and "two pass" is checked (on.) Render the audio separately as .AC3 at 192kbps.

John
rs170a wrote on 1/21/2006, 1:11 PM
If you don't want to render it all over again, you can try a great tool called DVD Shrink (it's free) to get it to fit. There will be some quality loss but it really shouldn't be noticeable.

Mike
rmack350 wrote on 1/21/2006, 1:13 PM
After doing this, if you still don't hit the mark, you might try a little cheat using DVDshrink. Better to do it right the first time but if not this can save you a bit of time.

Rob Mack
rmack350 wrote on 1/21/2006, 1:14 PM
Hah! Beat me.

-Rob
johnmeyer wrote on 1/21/2006, 1:41 PM
I always use a bitrate calculator so that I can use the maximum possible bitrate (for best quality), but still make everything fit on one DVD without having to use DVD Shrink. Here's the calculator that many people use:

Bitrate Calculator

I actually use one that I created myself that has many nice bells and whistles. If you want that instead let me know.

John's recommendations for average bitrate are exactly what the calculator specifies, so follow his suggestions.
rmack350 wrote on 1/21/2006, 2:09 PM
This is obviously the best choice. DVDshrink is a stopgap to use when you've screwed up and given up.

Rob Mack
Stonefield wrote on 1/21/2006, 2:54 PM
Sounds good guys.....appreciate the help.

Stan
earthrisers wrote on 1/21/2006, 4:16 PM
Yo Johnmeyer...

Is your calculator up somewhere where you could post a link to it?

(I do use the videohelp one, but your mention of bells and whisles intrigues me...)

-Ernie
johnmeyer wrote on 1/22/2006, 12:02 AM
s your calculator up somewhere where you could post a link to it?

Try clicking on this link:

Meyer Files

If Yahoo lets you in, you should see a link for my bitrate calculator. Right click on it and download. It is an Excel spreadsheet. It is locked so you can only edit certain fields, to keep you from messing up (you can easily unlock it if you know Excel). It shows you disc capacity in all the popular measurement systems, which helps clear up the confusion that surrounds the question: "Why is a disc that holds 4,700,000,000 bytes only hold 4.377 GBytes?" You can add other information about your prospective disc, such as subpictures, or amount of non-video data you want to put on the disk (helpful if you are putting computer "extras" on the disc). Most of the time I just enter the duration of the video and read the result, but once in awhile it's nice to have the other stuff.
craftech wrote on 1/22/2006, 2:05 PM
Stan,
DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15 works really well. Give it a try. You can always try one of the other methods if you don't like the results.

John