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How just a little compression?
Hello Good Group,
I made a QT Movie of my video, 23 min., 720×480 MiniDV. And the file size is 4.68 gigs. A little to large to fit on a DVD disk. I can’t seem to find the right compression to make it about 4.2 gigs so it will fit on a blank DVD. I own Squeeze 4.3 and , of course, Compressor (1.2.1) I used compressor at DV NTSC and, of course, it came out just the same size. I can’t figure out how to make Squeeze and Compressor let me know the file size before I compress. I want it to be full frame, of course, and the highest quality I can get. I guess I could divide the video in half and make part one and part two — maybe that’s the ticket?
Thanks for listening and any ideas for me.
Richard
G4, dual 1 gig, 1.5 gig ram, 10.3.8, FCP 4.5. Compressor 1.2.1, Squeeze 4.3.0
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8 Replies
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Are you trying to fit this on a DATA DVD, or one that will play in DVD players.
If for DVD players, you don’t compress it in the way you are thinking. YOu will have to use compressor to encode it for DVD, or iDVD and DVD SP will encode the file on their own as well.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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The obvious answer is:
“Use a dual-layer DVD-R disk that will have about 8+GB capacity” (presuming you have a DVD-burner that will burn dual-layer DVD-Rs)The longer answer depends on what you want to do with this video:
1) Edit it further?
2) Save it to DVD for distribution1) Edit it further
Coming from a DV or Mini-DV tape means the video is already compressed – for quality purposes it is best not to recompress it since you will lose quality, and it is likely to be in a format not easily suited to further editing. DV is a nice comfortable format for a number of reasons.2) Save it to DVD for distribution
This presumes that you want your DVD to be a DVD Video disk, playable back in stand-alone DVD players. Your video needs to be converted into MPEG-2 video and a DVD disk authored with this converted video to make a suitable format, when it will easily fit onto a single sided DVD-R/DVD+R. One program that would be suitable to do with would be DVD Studio Pro, part of the Final Cut Studio package. The down side to this is that the video is further compressed in its conversion to MPEG-2, but also the MPEG-2 video is not as easy to edit with as DV due to its temporal compression (I, B and P frames) in addition to the spacial compression that DV has.If I were you, I’d burn it onto a dual-layer disk, since that is the easiest option if you need that video off a tape and onto another medium. It’s significantly more expensive than burning to a single layer DVD, but not significant compared to your time and effort trying to shoehorn too much video onto a single sided DVD.
Bill Lee
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Hello Shane,
Thanks for getting back to me. No, I’m not trying to make a dvd.
I have most of that figured out. I was trying to archive a video project. I thought I could save it as a QT movie and burn it to a data DVD disk. Then I could re-import it if I had to make some change later. Non-compressed it was 4.6 gigs. I wanted to compress it just a little to fit on a DVD disk 4.7 (but really 4.2). Now I think I’ll divide the movie in half and save each to a data dvd.
Make sense?
Richard
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Bill,
Thank you for our time and answer. I was trying to archive the finished video material. Not making a DVD that clients or whoever could watch. I didn’t make that clear. I don’t have a double sided burner, but a great idea. I’m going to check that out.
I think I’ll divide the movie into two parts (very easy as it has fade outs between major parts.) and burn each half to a DATA DVD. I just wanted to save it as QT encase I ever had to import it.
Thank you for you time.
Richard
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If you own a copy of Roxio Toast Titanium, then it is likely (can’t remember when this feature was added) that it will have the multi-disk feature where you just keep dragging files and folders to the list of stuff to be burnt and it will burn as many disks as it needs to archive your stuff. You really don’t want to break up the QT file since that can break your project if it was expecting to find a particular file and it has changed into two new files.
If you’ve got a copy of toast that will do this, then burn as much as you can onto DVD: the project, stills, audio, clips, since if you are going to use two DVD disks, they may as well be full since you won’t be able to add an additional session later on.
Bill Lee
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Print it back to tape to archive it, never archive in a way thgat compressis it more then the origomnal
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I know this may sound silly… but what is your computer? Do you have a DL-DVD drive installed in it? If not, you might want to check on getting on OR if you feel like making the big jump maybe a Blu-Ray DVD writer, if there is one that will work on the Mac. I think you can get an upgrade drive for less than $100 for your Mac that is Dual Layer.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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This is currentl $46.00 CND. I paid $39.99 CND a little while ago on sale but it is still very cheap.
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