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bitrate questions
I feel like an idiot and I am just not understanding this. I am trying to do what I thought was a simple task of transferring some VHS tapes to DVD using PP2. I have about an hour and 10 minutes of tape. I am trying to get the best quality possible. I have been using the table found on video2stream and still can’t get my footage to fit on the DVD. Even when I tried the low quality(NTSC) 3mbps 2 pass, it said there was insufficient room on the disk. I think I should be able to get a higher bit rate and still fit it on a DVD. I know that in the past, I have fit 90 minutes on a DVD with no quality issues but can’t remember the settings I used. What am I doing wrong?? I am so frustrated! Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Lisa -
6 Replies
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If you are going with PCM audio, and not additional menus, I would go for 6.2 CBR. IMO, VBR 2 pass is a waste of time for that length. As for why it doesn’t fit with 2 pass, could it be that the insufficient space is for the temp files for your hard drive ?
Vince
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Actually, I was typing without reading, or thinking ;-). Read 7mbs CBR. By that, I mean that the difference will likely not be visible in quality, but you might just cut the render time in half or more.
Cheers,
Vince
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I agree with Vincent completely.
I was going to ask about how full your harddrive is…PPro needs to make the entire DVD in place on your harddrive, then the burning process is more of a “copying” operation.
TimK,
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Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
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Thanks for trying to help. I have over 70 Gig available on my hard drive. Shouldn’t that be more than enough??? This is so frustrating!
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Are you in a network environment with things like Administrative privileges and disc quotas?
Are any of your scratch discs set for a drive that is not there? -
…or is your harddrive formatted as FAT 32 instead of NTFS?
TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net
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