• DVD Authoring

  Encoding to a certain file size — any guidelines?

  Posted by Jeff Nelson on November 8, 2005 at 10:56 pm

  I’m sure this depends on your encoder and other stuff, but do any loose guidelines exist to suggest bitrates in order to get a certain amount onto a DVD?

  For example, I’m going to encode 12 hours onto three DVD 9’s. So that’s 4 hours per DVD, which is what the dvd 9 is supposed to hold. Any suggestions on whether to use a straight bitrate of, say, 5? Or a variable bitrate between X and Y?

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  Thanks.

  Jeff Nelson replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Eric Pautsch

  November 9, 2005 at 12:12 am

  Always use a bit rate calulator no matter what job your working on:

  https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=VideoHelp_Bitrate_calculator
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  Jeff Nelson

  November 9, 2005 at 1:06 am

  Many thanks. Have downloaded and checked it out. Appreciate that.

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