Making a dvd

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Johny

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Hello again friends. I filmed a slightly over 2 hour musical in 720-30 pn. I want to make an sd version for dvd and I can't make it happen. I used the procoder and followed the directions in making a dvd. the final file it made was over 8 gb so my dvd software couldn't make a dvd out of it. I retried it using edius' dvd authoring software and is didn't work. (it said not enough disk space) (by the way I'm using the update of broadcast 4) I retried making a dvd by placing a double layer dvd but it didn't help.
First off , can someone point me to some more detailed instruction for making dvds. Can edius' dvd authoring support double layer dvds? If there were a way of doing this wouldn't it make sense, as I would get a higher quality dvd? finally if none of that works how do you compress two hours into the 4 gigbyte it needs to be to make a regular dvd.
Thanks much
 
You are going to compromise the quality somewhat if you put two hours of video on a single-layer disk, you're better off using dual-layer media.

If you still want to put it on a single-layer disk, use a good bitrate calculator to determine the optimum bitrate given the video's duration and selected audio format, and adjust the Procoder Express for Edius or Procoder settings based on that.

I've not authored a DVD from inside Edius, the first time I tried it I discovered that it is very sensitive to your current project settings. If they don't match DVD-legal settings, the option won't even be available. I generally output an MPEG2 file that I can load into my DVD authoring program, and if the settings in it match those of the MPEG2 file, the file doesn't need to be re-encoded and the authoring process is relatively quick.
 
I would perfer putting the project on a double layer. I would like to try to use the new dvd creater in edius but it won't open (menu item won't highlight) I tried fiddling with some of the settings as you suggested to try to get them to match but havn't got ther yet. I assume when you convert to mpeg you use a setting in the procoder? Thanks again thoff. You are always so generous with you time in this forum reguardless of whatever knuckle head question we throw at you. You are probably a good friend to many people
Thanks
 
Yes, that is exactly what I experienced, DVD output is not available at all in HD projects -- you need to temporarily change the project settings to be SD DVD compatible, i.e. 720x480 for NTSC or 720x576 for PAL. You can change the settings back when you are done.

Instead of doing that, I would leave the settings intact and use Print To File and output a DVD-compliant MPEG2 file using Procoder Express for Edius or Procoder 2/Procoder 3 if you have that -- let it resize the HD material to SD. Once you have the MPEG2 file, you can feed it into the DVD authoring program of your choice, including the Edius DVD Creator -- it can be run standalone by launching DVDCreator.exe in your Edius4 folder.

On the right-hand side of the DVD Creator dialog is a drop-down for the media type, make sure you change that to match the DVD size you are going to use.
 
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