Best way to output 140 minutes of video to DSP?

i have a video project that is 145 minutes long. My desire is to make it into one DVD...not two. Can compressor squeeze this so that it can fit onto a 2 hour DVD?

Sure, Compressor can squeeze it down to fit - there is even a preset for 150 minutes of material in Compressor 2 & 3 - but the question is whether or not the quality will be acceptable. Also, you've got to make sure your audio is Dolby Digital (not an issue for Compressor 3.0.x - as it has no AIFF preset - but definitely something to look out for if you're using Compressor 2.x)
At those bit rates (I believe about 3.5 average, 5 max) anything with reasonable motion can fall apart - pixelation, etc - very quickly. Taking heads stuff should be fine though.
Or are you asking this question because you've tried the Compressor preset already?

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