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  DVDA: Overhead?

  Posted by Norman Willis on July 29, 2010 at 4:26 am

  I am just starting Disk 3 of the VASST Absolute DVD series. When I open DVDA it shows 0.6GB file size (before I ever enter anything).

  I re-rendered my project using Mark’s Bitrate Calculator, and got about the same numbers as the Javascript bitrate calculator that John Rofrano recommended. Thirty hours later I got an MPEG-2 of 4.42GB. Audio is 0.158GB. So when I put those into DVDA I get a warning that I am at 4.9GB! (Larger than my 4.7GB DVD-R).

  I wrote Sony, and they said to put everything into DVDA, and it would render everything to MPEG-2. But isn’t my DVDA NTSC Video Stream already MPEG-2?

  Do I need to render a third time, rounding the numbers down a little? Or do I let DVDA compress it again? Thanks.

  Norman Willis
  http://www.nazareneisrael.org

  John Rofrano replied 16 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Rofrano

  July 29, 2010 at 1:12 pm

  I would not let DVD Architect compress it again. You will loose too much quality. You can render your MPEG2 file at a lower bitrate or you can render an AVI file and let DVD Architect fit it to the disc in which case it will render to MPEG2 for you at an appropriate bitrate.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com

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