hours of footage for DVD

[Michael Sacci]

Jeff’s suggestion is right but his settings are lower than need be.

300 minutes of footage with ac3 audio
Average Bitrate 3.4
Max Bitrate 5.5

Remember having a higher max means it will have to go lower than the average more often.

To test just compress about 20 minutes so you get a real feel for the VBR (make sure you do a 2 pass)