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DVD Lengths
Is there a DVD length where I should divide it up into two DVDs? I have a movie that is 2hrs 45 minutes, am I making the quality worse by putting it onto 1 dvd? At what point should movies be divided into two?
Thank you
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2 Replies
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I personally never go over 2 hr. for any videos I produce as I find that the quality drops off too much for my standards.
If I was you, I’d find a spot 1/2 way through, split it at that point and burn it on 2 DVDs.
Use a bitrate calculator to determine optimum encoding settings for each segment to maximize quality. -
I also would say 2 hour is about the limit unless source material isn’t great. You could split your video evenly to get close to max quality on both DVD’s.
One option if you’d like to keep it one DVD is to use double-layer DVD. Downside with that is that at least in the US you won’t find easily durable archival DVD’s (e.g. Taiyo Yuden silver DVD+R).
But you could create several copies instead.
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