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Compression Settings for 4 hour clip
I have a 4 hour clip that I need to fit onto a single sided DVD. It doesn’t have to be of the highest quality, but I want it as good as I can get it. Does anybody have any suggestions on what I should set my compression rates at (Audio and Video)? I was thinking maybe 2 pass VBR at max 3MBS…but I’m not sure. I’d appreciate anybodys feedback who has done this.
Brian
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Hey, that’s pretty cool.
Off the top of my head I was going to suggest an average of 2.5 and a max of 6 and that page suggested 2.28 and 6.30. So that looks like a good guess!
No matter what I or that site says, Brian, be prepared for some trial and error. Depending on how much motion is in your video that might not work or it might work TOO well and you’ll end up with a 3 GB DVD.
Be ready to adjust it slightly up or down after your first test to get as close to 4 GB as you can. There’s no way to know for sure what your video is going to come out as so you’ll just have to do it 3 or 4 times and pick the largest file without going over.
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I crammed about 3.5 hours of video onto a 4.7 gig DVD-R ,last year. It was about 90% talking heads, the rest static powerpoint images, so I probably could have gone even higher compression. Don’t remember what settings I used, but I just guessed and aimed low.
Good luck.It is interesting if you have a DVD player which can display the data rate coming off a commercial DVD, they often have pretty low average rates – but as others have mentioned numerous times, those are compressed from an internegative or some such thing with tremendous picture quality.
Mike
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