Newbie needs help with MF3 compression

KHart7240 · Post by **KHart7240** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:23 pm

I have MovieFactory 3 and my video is larger than will fit on my DVD. How do I compress it so it will fit?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:23 pm

How do you expect anyone to answer that in a meaningful manner?

Where did it come from? What are the properties?

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DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:09 pm

USE A LOWER BITRATE!

Quoting myself

A good "rule-of-thumb" is 90 minutes per DVD. You can get that with a 6000k bitrate and Dolby AC3 audio. This bitrate is typical of commercal DVDs (The DVD spec allows bitrates up to about 9800k, audio & video combined)

The DVD standard does not set a fixed level of compression -

Higher bitrate = higher quality = more disc space = lower compression = less playing time.

Lower bitrate = lower quality = less disc space = higher compression = more playing time.

When you squeeze more than 2 hours on a (single-layer) DVD, you start to see the video-quality degrade. You'll have to judge for yourself... There are lots of variables including the quality of the source video, the quality of your TV, and how critical you are.

Using compressed audio allows more room for more video or higher-quality video. If you live in the USA (or another NTSC country), your player must play LPCM (uncompressed) and Dolby AC3 audio. If you live in a PAL country, your player must play LPCM and MPEG-2 audio. (Players are not required to play MP3 audio.)

A Bitrate Calculator may help.

If you have a dual-layer DVD that you want to re-compress, or a VIDEO_TS file on your hard-drive that won't fit, you can use a nifty program called DVDshrink (FREE !!!).