3 Hour long DVD… possible?

[Tom Wolsky]

You can with a dual layer burner and a dual layer disc.

All the best,

Tom

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[Josh Evans]

I dont have a dual layer burner. So does this mean I should split the footage onto 2 DVDs?

No other way around it?

[Richard Sanchez]

Are you positive your DVD burner doesn’t do dual layers? If you’ve bought your system in the past three years or so, it probably does. The disks are less common since they cost significantly more, but most modern DVD burners have support them for quite a while.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Michael Sacci]

Yeah, in fact I think most systems having dual burns go back a lot longer than just 3 years.

Average Bitrates for 180 minutes of video when using ac3 audio –
DVD-5 3.1 Mbps
DVD-9 5.9 Mbps

The other factor is what is your video of, talking heads on a lockdown camera? sports? how good is your video? shoots well light? low amount of noise? All this makes a huge difference as to how well it will look. But going DVD-9 (Dual Layer) would always be the first choice. BTW If your burner is not DL it would also be dog slow, you can upgrade for under $100.

[Chuck Reti]

If just getting the material on a disk is the important factor, standalone consumer hardware DVD burners offer 2,4 and 6 hour DVD durations. Downside of course is degraded picture quality at these “LP” and “EP” settings.

[David Bogie]

[Chuck Reti] “If just getting the material on a disk is the important factor, standalone consumer hardware DVD burners offer 2,4 and 6 hour DVD durations. Downside of course is degraded picture quality at these “LP” and “EP” settings.”

Second this workflow. Connect video and audio into the DVD recorder, select speed, hit record, play your tape. It’s realtime, it works, it’s cool, and relatively cheap. the bitrate tends to be very low because you do not have any audio encoding options. So, while the image is usually better than you think it can be in the 4 hour mode, you do NOT want to pump this out to a huge screen.

The OP’s requirement for quality seems to ignore the reality of DVD and MPEG2.

bogiesan

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