What settings to use in DVDA?

HalfDead wrote on 1/22/2004, 5:11 AM

I seem to recall that it was recomended that you render your project before taking it into DVDA because it wil render more quickly. I also seem to recall a posting that said that if you had the project rendered in DVDA instead that DVDA would be able to automatically give you the maximum bit rate for rendering so that the output would fit on a 4.7 GB disk. Is this correct or not?

I have created a crazy wedding video where they have instisted that I include every work of every speech & as a consequence the video runs 1 hour 46 minutes. I have no idea as to what the PAL bit rate setting should be to made this DVD. Any Ideas?

I assume that I will have to render to AVI before taking the file into DVDA is this correct?

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DGrob wrote on 1/22/2004, 7:46 PM

That's what I'd do, render to *.avi and import that is. DVDA will give you some warnings regarding optimizing bitrates and such when you enter the prepare and burn menu, just sign off and proceed. DGrob

farss wrote on 1/23/2004, 12:34 AM

For that length of video use ac3 audio will let you get the bitrate that much higher.
I encode from the Vegas TL after using a bitrate calculator. That way I get to choose all the sttings.