• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  30 minute DVD video

  Posted by Phil Beastall on August 7, 2008 at 8:24 am

  What settings in compressor do you think I should apply for a video that is 30 minutes long. There is Best Quality – 90 minutes, but thats surely going to compress it 3 times more than it needs.

  Alan Okey replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Eisen

  August 7, 2008 at 12:02 pm

  Then set your Bit Rate manually. 6.5 to 7.5 should be good.

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  Alan Okey

  August 7, 2008 at 5:33 pm

  [Phil Beastall] “There is Best Quality – 90 minutes, but thats surely going to compress it 3 times more than it needs.”

  Not necessarily. DVD has a maximum combined audio and video bitrate of 10Mbps, which should never be attempted – it will cause problems on some players. Try to keep the total bitrate under 9.5 or even 9Mbps. Try encoding your audio as Dolby Digital AC3 with a bitrate of 192kbps, and the video as MPEG-2 at 6.5-7.5 average bitrate with a ceiling of 8.3-8.5 Mbps.

  There is a point in MPEG-2 encoding where increasing bitrate does not improve quality, it only increases file size. Allow the VBR encoder to work as it was designed by setting a moderate average bitrate and a reasonable maximum bitrate.

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