Jeff Brown
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Reduce your bitrate when encoding. A WMV that size (dimensions & running time) should look OK at about 300 – 600 Kbps. 300 Kbps would give you about a 3 MB video.
-jeff
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Brian is right: the only format you can use for DVD-video is MPEG-2. That’s part of the DVD-Video standard. What you can adjust is bitrate (compression settings). You can do some math and figure the maximum bitrate for a 2-hour DVD-V. 2-pass compression will usually produce better results at lower than maximum bitrates.
For resolution, you did it properly: NTSC DVD-video _must_ be 480×720.-Jeff
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Wouldn’t it be easier to buy a SDI card and skip the scan converter?
-jeff
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I’m not an expert on H.264, but I think that high a bitrate might be too much for a desktop processor to decode. You might try knocking it back a lot (like to 2 Mbps) and see what the playback is like.
-jeff
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I don’t know about CS4, but in older versions of PPro there was a setting for desktop playback; one could choose between accelerated display (OpenGL?) and “compatible”. That might help if there is a driver issue.
-jeff
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If you wish to make a copy of the edited master, I’d export to your hard drive via an uncompressed format (or DV, if that’s what your mastering to). Then copy that file to the backup media.
-jeff
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After Effects, and rotoscoping or keying.
-jeff
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Flash drives typically use a file system called “FAT” (File Allocation Table). It’s an old file system, and won’t save a file larger than 2 GB. I’ve been bitten by that before.
You can write up to about 4.5 GB to a data-DVD instead of a video-DVD. Same disc media, but a different file format. If you have a DVD-burner on your machine, it’s about as involved as doing a “copy”.
Otherwise, you might want to get a couple of external USB or Firewire hard drives. They are pretty cheap these days. Get two, because you don’t want to trust just one. Get a large capacity, and you can probably back up your original captured footage as well.-jeff
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Mac or PC?
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I’ve heard that sort of thing with mis-matched sample rates. Have you checked to see if Windows is trying to play a 48 KHz file at 44.1 KHz, or some such thing?
-jeff