How does Hollywood make 2 hour DVD’s with such good quality? Can I?

[Gary Kleiner]

First of all, film is WAY higher resolution than video, so the source material is higher quality to start with.

Second, there are wole departments filled with people whose only job is to tweak the encoding for each individual scene.

Third, a pressed (replicated) DVD can hold more information than a burned one. Thus, the overhead for file size is higher.

Can you make a high quality 96 minute DVD? Certainly. Do you have a high quality master?

Gary Kleiner

[Larry Watts]

Gary,

My “high Quality” master is on my hard drive.

I’m limited to the DVD Burner’s capabilities, therefore…
in my first step I’ve already degraded the master.

I could output to tape and outsource burning to DVD, but to whom?

If burners hold less than replicated DVD’s what does “Hollywood” use as a master for the replicator?

Am I missing something?

Thanks

Larry

[Gary Kleiner]

Masters are usually delived via DLT tape. DLT support is a new feature of DVDA 3. Replicated disc are usually pressed in mininum batches of 500 or 1000.

You can create a 96 minute, high-quality, DVD just fine with Vegas, DVDA, and your burner. What gave you the impression otherwise?

Gary Kleiner

[Larry Watts]

When I talked with Vegas tech support it sounded like any additonal compression lower than 8 mbps
would show serious degradation.

The sample that finished just 20 minutes looked excelent, however.

DVDA also showed red flags on the video at lower compression.

Thanks

Larry Watts

LSW

[Edward Troxel]

I have frequently put 2 hours on a DVD using a bitrate around 4,825,000. Even that looks good!

Edward Troxel