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4 hour DVD 9 w/ good quality possible?
Hi All!
We recently shot a 4 hour instructional DVD (https://www.learntodancetango.com). We have been reading and experimenting (a lot), but now need to post to ask a question. Please help.
We edited and saved in Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9. Using DVD Architect Studio 4.5
VEGAS STUDIO RENDERING CHOICES
– MainConcept MPEG 2
– DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen Video Stream
– Note: I was hoping for a “custom” option that would let me choose something like 2-pass VBR, but the custom button was grayed out. Note that we can access this if we use MPEG1.
– the video is 15.7 GB … a bit too bigVEGAS ARCHITECT DVD CHOICES
– video bitrate 8 Mbps
– 16:9 Aspect ratio
– 720*480
– 29.97 frames per second
– progressive: autoWhen lowering the bit-rate so that it could fit, the quality does suffer very noticeably. To make it fit, we have to go down to something like 3.5 Mbps … which made the quality too low.
Is there a way to make this fit on 1 dual layer DVD without the quality suffering too horribly? I was hoping that if we were patient, and did some encoding magic, somehow we could make it fit with ok quailty.
Best,
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Is there a way to make this fit on 1 dual layer DVD without the quality suffering too horribly?
Nope. A single layer DVD can hold about 1.5 hrs of video at good quality. A dual layer can hold about 3 hrs. You are just asking too much to expect to fit 4 hrs of video on a dual layer DVD and maintain quality.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Ok – thank you for the response.
I guess it’s now a 2 DVD set … 😉
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