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MPEG-2 and 8M CBR?
I have been making video for Internet (YouTube and Vimeo). I am not ready to compile a DVD just yet, but I want to go ahead and burn the files for DVD while everything is still there, just to be safe.
I have the VASST tutorials, and am hoping to regain control of my life soon, so I can go through them. But until that time, will it work just to render the project to Main Concept MPEG-2 at 8,000,000 CBR, Quality 31, and then figure out DVDA later?
I’m not real worried about how much I can stuff onto the DVD at this point: I just want to make sure I’ve got something to stuff onto it in case I cannot re-open the project at some future point.
And what do I do about making the audio and the video streams separate? Thanks very much.
Norman Willis
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If you are unsure if all the video will fit on a DVD later then I would render to AVI using an intraframe compression codec like DV. DVD MPEG2 is compressed at about 25:1 while DV AVI is compressed at 5:1. You would be much better off rendering them to DV AVI just in case you need to use a lower bit-rate to fit them all on the DVD later.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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