Nathan Quattrini
October 7th, 2009, 10:57 AM
Ok here's the story. From what I know you should be able to fit 2 hours of video on a DVD without losing visual quality. My DVD is setup right now with Minimum 4.0 Mbps and Max 7.0 Mbps. I have 11 videos that equal 116 minutes all added up together. There are also some background images for the menus. Right now the disc meter shows I am at 5.8 gigs.
2 of the videos are used on 2 different tracks, but it is factoring that in to the disc size twice. I removed it from one track to test the theory and it dropped the disc size to 5.0 gigs. If its the same asset being used on 2 tracks, shouldn't it only need to factor it in once towards the DVD size? Should I assume the disc size right now is only 5.0 gigs and work on shaving off the .3 needed to get down to 4.7?
Also what is the general guideline for the video being of top quality? How low should I change some of the video settings to try and shave off some space. The videos are Animation Uncompressed videso from Premiere (I abandoned Adobe after a long process of Encore being hoorible software), so the audio tracks are also Quicktime Audio. I saw a few posts about doing something with the audio to also lessen the space it uses without losing quality. Is it still possible give the audio is part of the video mov?
Any help would be great, been working on this DVD for 4 months (since starting on encore, encore died, just rebuilt it all in DVD SP) so finishing it would be a huge weight off my shoulders. Thanks for your help!
2 of the videos are used on 2 different tracks, but it is factoring that in to the disc size twice. I removed it from one track to test the theory and it dropped the disc size to 5.0 gigs. If its the same asset being used on 2 tracks, shouldn't it only need to factor it in once towards the DVD size? Should I assume the disc size right now is only 5.0 gigs and work on shaving off the .3 needed to get down to 4.7?
Also what is the general guideline for the video being of top quality? How low should I change some of the video settings to try and shave off some space. The videos are Animation Uncompressed videso from Premiere (I abandoned Adobe after a long process of Encore being hoorible software), so the audio tracks are also Quicktime Audio. I saw a few posts about doing something with the audio to also lessen the space it uses without losing quality. Is it still possible give the audio is part of the video mov?
Any help would be great, been working on this DVD for 4 months (since starting on encore, encore died, just rebuilt it all in DVD SP) so finishing it would be a huge weight off my shoulders. Thanks for your help!