[David Carey]

to clarify:

After editing the material we would deliver it on DVD. If we did a customary DVD authoring we would create massive files to deal with. What we are considering is exporting the editing material (in 2 hour segments)directly onto a DVD recorder much like you would master onto tape. My question is… what type(s) of DVD recorders are most reliable for playback?

thanks
David

[David Carey]

I have had some DVDs that came from a DVD recorder that were inconsistant in playback on various drives or decks. Any recomendation for kind of DVD recorder to use for best results?

[David Carey]

There will be content from 3 days of shooting. Each of which will produce approximately 4 hours of media.

My question is regarding the best way to put this much media on DVDs(multiple). Each 4 hour session may have 2 or 3 parts so it might be possible to have these be individual presentations. Exporting 2 or 4 hour segments will create massive files that may be too big to handle. Is there a recomendation for a process?

It may be possible to use a medium quality file but without too much degrading of image or sound.

Is there any other system that might be used besides encoding and authoring? A DVD recorder?

Any ideas?

[David Carey]

Not sure what you mean by individual exported Discreet assets being put on a single timeline. Tell me more about that please. I have Encore 1 but am planning to upgrade to 2.0

[David Carey]

We are taking movies from a Discreet edit system and authoring DVDs using thes files. The problem is that I have been told that its best to export full frame (uncompressed) avi files to use so they have no noise or artifacts from compression. The problem is they are much to large to handle on my computer. A minute and a half is about 4GB (which is also the file limit on NT systems).
I am hoping there is a compression that maintains a good image but reduces the file size to something more managable.

Help…