Feasible to have high quality 2 hour vid on one dvd
I was trying to use i dvd 6 to burn a quicktime standard def video that is just over 2 hours long. I got it on the disc with about 100 megs to spare on the 4.7 gig dvd. Problem is some of my clips have significant distortion. Funny thing is when the same video was about 3 or 4 minutes less the final burn looked just fine. So I may try this with dvd studio 4.
My question is, is it feasible to get a good quality burn with dvd studio 4 with a video that is this long on a single dvd? Thanks.
It should be - DVDSP has an adjustment in the preferences to encode at any rate you want giving you the possibility to produce very long DVDs.
As an example, encoding at 4 Mbps would give you a DVD around 2 hours 20 minutes. A lower bitrate would give you longer.
Compressor also has pre-sets up to 150 minutes long, but once again you can set your own lower rate which will give even longer times.
Of course the quality will not be as good as a one hour DVD but it shouldn't have the video nasties you have described.
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