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Help with 3 and a 1/2 hour project
I just completed editing a 3 and 1/2 hour play. After I add an intro sequence, credits, some interviews, motion menus it will probably be around 3 and 3/4 hours. My question is; how do I author this? I have a dual layer dvd burner, but if I want to maintain the best quality video, I can not fit it on one. Is there some setting that will make it all fit and wont sacrifice “noticeable” quality? If I have to go to (2) DL DVDs and the jackets, I will see very little profit. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Joe Cinquina
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5 Replies
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Joe,
I just finished a project with 5.5 hours of video
that I split across 3 DVD-Rs. If you use two DVD-Rs
you should be able to get acceptable quality and
4 hours of video. Since DVD-R is lower in cost than
DVD-R DL this might help you out with finances.Just my 2cents.
Mark
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Mark _ Thanks. Did you encode this in Premiere or Encore? What settings did you use? What did you give up as far as quality? Does black look really black or is it grainey? Thanks again.
Regards,
Joe
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Joe,
For the most part I use Premier Pro to do the
encoding. If you break the video up into two pieces
you should be able to get a target bit rate of
4.5Mbits/s. Then just play with the lower bit rate
and highest bit rate. Making the highest bit rate
less than 7Mbit/s has worked okay for me in these
types of projects but then again the quality was just
DV to begin with.Also, if there isn’t a lot of fast movement(camera
or object) you can set the quality to 3-3.5 and
the MPEG encoding will move alot faster than at 4-5.Hope this works for you.
Mark
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For hoo-ha’s why don’t you set the bit rate low enough to fit the whole thing on one disc. It may come out horrible, but would be an interesting experiment.
Also, if this is a school or community play, it may still look better than the usual VHS tapes people are accustomed to seeing.I did a DVD last year with over 3 hours on a single layer DVD-R – did not look horrible, although it was mostly talking heads and static slides.
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I will like to see how this is achievable and the final quality with a footage so longer.
I never do DVD’s longer than 2 hrs and only one time did a 2:40 hrs but pixelitation was noticiable…
I know the final quality depends upon the quality of the footage feeded
but, please, any of you can show the way… could be 3hrs? by Encore, or how?
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