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DVD Architect – how much video can fit?
I’ve been looking in the documentation but can’t seem to find the answer to this question. If you are willing to accept a lot of recompression, what is the maximum number of hours you can fit on one DVD? I have a client who wants to try to fit an entire conference on a single DVD.
I assume tbe procedure would be to make DV quality .avi files and let DVD Arch. convert to mpeg 2. Right?
Thanks much,
Mary Waitrovich
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Mary, there is no exact answer because there are too many variables such as the qulaity of the image, the amount of movement, sigle or double-sided disc, etc.
You can surely squeeze a lot of video onto a disc,but the result may be equivalent to an audio CD with a splotchy, blocky formless accompanyment.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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i have some single layer DVD’s with 4 hrs … have a few with 5-6hrs BUT they don’t play on many DVD players.. in my experience once you drop the bit rate below 2,000,000 some players will not play em …
don’t forget you could use dual layer disc….
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One other suggestion (and it’s dependent on the desired quality), is to render the file out of Vegas at 352×480 or 353×240 frame sizes. Both of these are acceptable sizes for DVDA and the resulting files will be smaller. I’m not sure how much but a quick test render should give you an idea.
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In DVDA-2 I got a video a little over 2 hours on 1 DVD. Quality was pretty good except at the very end, some fast motion in the video showed minor blocking.
I just rendered to AVI brought it into DVDA. after I got my menus done in the optimization window I clicked the “let DVDA fit to disk”.
Yes, DVD is MPEG-2
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