Burning a Big Movie / Need 2 dvd's?

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PimpDaddyDA

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I've got 2 hours 15 minutes of movie I need to get on a dvd.

Is there anyway I can get all of it on 1 dvd?

I wanted to use the VBR 2 pass for a good visual.... BUT....

I don't think a 8.5 GB dvd will hold it all.

Is there a setting that PPRO 1.5 will auto compress the movie into a 8.5 GB dvd? If so, will the picture look like crap?

Am I better off going "2 disk" for the film? (which I don't want to do)


Thanks for your input!

Darryl
 
export the film in dv-avi, take it into an avi-mpeg converter (you can find free software on download.com), and then take the video into dvdshrink and it will fit it to your disc.
 
Actually, 2:15 should fit into an 8.5MB disc just fine. At a 7M bit rate, 2:15 only takes up about 7GB.
 
Sumfun.... is that at VBR? or CBR? Isn't VBR 2 pass the way to go?

I didn't want to do all the avi converting and shrinking for fear of losing quality.

Right now, I've got about 2 hours cut, and the computer says 7.72 GB needed. I think when I'm finished, I'll surpase the 8.5GB mark. It will be very close....

7 max bit rate, VBR 2 pass is cool? Does the CBR setting do auto compression? I heard CBR didn't give best picture quality...?
 
Bit rate is the same regardless of whether it's CBR or VBR. VBR does 2 passes, so it usually yields better results - but it takes a little longer than CBR. But both will result in an MPEG file at whatever rate you specify. So I'm not sure what you mean by auto compression.

When your computer says that it requires 7.72GB, does it say what the data rate is? If your final file is just over the limit, then you can always reduce the bit rate slightly to get the file to fit on the DVD. The quality impact should be minimal.
 
PimpDaddyDA said:
7 max bit rate, VBR 2 pass is cool? Does the CBR setting do auto compression? I heard CBR didn't give best picture quality...?
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I'm curious as to where you heard this. I normally use CBR unless I'm tight for space on the DVD. I've always been pleased with the results. VBR should give smaller output files depending on the images being encoded but the 2 pass mode takes nearly twice as long.

Keep in mind that Premiere generates a PCM audio stream. If you use Dolby Digital AC-3 audio encoding on the DVD, you'll save a lot of DVD space with a 2+ hour movie. I would recommend AC-3 anyway as I've run into fairly new DVD players that don't handle PCM audio very well.

Adobe Encore does have a feature to 'auto compress'. I've never used it but according to the feature list, if you feed it AVI files, it will determine the optimal encodings to fit it on a the DVD.

-Dan
 
You are going to have to loose some quality dvds use a compressed format, It isnt always the est route to have teh highest btrate possible either. You have to know who your audience is. Even some new cheap DVD players wont be able to handle an extremly high bitrate dvd even if it is dvd legal because the processor in it wont be able to keep up and it will look shittier than if you had compressed it alittle. Best advice i could give is jus to do the encoding in encore dvd and either calculate what the highest bitrate you can use so that it can still fit on the disk or just use the automatic setting whihc should fit it perfeclt yon the dvd.
 
Thanks!! I'm buying some 8.5 dvds tonight, and will burn a few and see what happens.... I'll get back to you all tonight. I have to get this thing on disk somehow... got a few days left......
I'll try CBR and VBR..... and alter the bit rate to see if it will all fit.....

!!!!
 
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