Vegas 4 and 9.4GB DVD's

tfc wrote on 10/28/2003, 2:14 AM
I read on another forum, where Verbatim was planning on releasing the first single-sided 9.4 GB DVD's for home p.c.'s. I have several questions regarding this. First off, would this require an entirely new DVD burner, or would it be compatible with current burners? Second, does Vegas 4 or DVD A, artificially limit you to encoding or burning only 4.7 GB's worth of MPEG-2? Would this new DVD disc be compatible with Vegas 4 or DVD A? If not, would this be easy to modify and put in a future downloadable update or would it require a vast restructuring that would be held until Vegas 5? Any info is appreciated! Thanks!

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RBartlett wrote on 10/28/2003, 3:29 AM
If you go into the preferences - you can have any size DVD you want.
However a dual-layer disc has various requirements - like the 1st layer has to be longer than the 2nd; having to have the boundary with certain GOP characteristics when switching layers.

As with CSS encryption, this is probably best left for the replicator to do, so you could justify wrapping your workflow around their requirements. For speed and economy and not having to double process some aspects.

The 9.4GB are dual layer but not using the glue-bond method that replicated DVD-9 currently need. You will need a new burner, and even more players may add another reason why they are incompatible.

One day we won't even need to compress to get 2.5 hours of 720x480 or maybe even HD onto our shiny discs (or whatever).

The artificial 4.7/3.9GB limit on DVDA is just a default. I can see that a massive GB piece on your HD could make a pretty fancy kiosk application without needing too much programming, just the touch screen. Ho hum..