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  troubles compressing 4 hour video for single layer DVD

  Posted by Sean Schiavolin on September 19, 2006 at 5:23 pm

  I am authoring a DVD that needs to contain 4 hrs of DV footage shot last week.

  After finding out that Compressor doesn’t have a mpeg2 setting that will compress it small enough to fit on a single layer disk. I tried with Quicktime and on it’s lowest setting it has it coming in at 4.5. So I tried it twice and quicktime has frozen up afer 7min of compression.

  Can anyone help me figure out my options. I need to get this DVD in the mail today.

  thanks!

  Sean Schiavolin replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Charles Simonson

  September 19, 2006 at 6:22 pm

  I would suggest buying a software encoder that will allow you to encode to 1/2 D1 resolution MPEG-2 (352×480). This will allow you to encode to a much lower bit rate while still retaining good quality and DVD SP will be compatible with it. Such softwares that I recommend on the mac are BitVice, MainConcept, Episode, and MEGAPeg Pro. Alternatively, you can set your DVD up for a DL disc, which should afford you plenty of room to encode 4 hours to one DVD at full resolution.
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  Sean Schiavolin

  September 19, 2006 at 6:57 pm

  Charles,

  Thank you for recommending those encoding softwares.

  Very helpful.

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