I have videostudio9 and am trying to convert home movies to DVD. I saved a movie today about 2 hours and 50 minutes....takes up little over 4 gb on hard drive but when I go to "share" tab in VS, it says it is 8 or 9 GB??? I seem to be able to only save about an hour and a halfs worth of video.....am I using the wrong compression or what?
New guy looking for help..
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fit more on a DVD?
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THoff
If you captured nearly three hours of video into a file of just over 4GB , then you saved it in a highly compressed format. You didn't give any details about what you did, but there is a chance that you may have to repeat the capture process using a not-so-lossy format to get a good-looking DVD.
In order to produce a DVD, the video must be in MPEG2 format, and in order to get good quality, it must use 4.5 Mbps VBR or 6 Mbps CBR or higher encoding.
Given 2h50m of video and a single-layer DVD, you cannot use more than 2 Mbps for video (using LPCM audio), or the MPEG2 file won't fit on one disk.
If you use a dual-layer DVD and 256 Kbps AC-3 audio instead, you can use 4850 Kbps video instead. With VBR encoding, this should give good results.
There is a good bitrate calculator HERE that will help you determine what settings are needed to get your project to fit.
In order to produce a DVD, the video must be in MPEG2 format, and in order to get good quality, it must use 4.5 Mbps VBR or 6 Mbps CBR or higher encoding.
Given 2h50m of video and a single-layer DVD, you cannot use more than 2 Mbps for video (using LPCM audio), or the MPEG2 file won't fit on one disk.
If you use a dual-layer DVD and 256 Kbps AC-3 audio instead, you can use 4850 Kbps video instead. With VBR encoding, this should give good results.
There is a good bitrate calculator HERE that will help you determine what settings are needed to get your project to fit.
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whytep
fit more on DVD
OK, thanks for the reply....I can see I'm way over my head here. The 2 hours plus came from a VHS video tape (recorded by camcorder years ago) and was loaded into my PC via ADS DVDXpressDX2. The 4 GB file on the hard drive is a .mpg-2 format according to the ADS software. I have a Sony dual layer DVD burner. I guess I don't understand what videosuite is doing to my 4gb mpg-2 file to make it a 8 or 9 gb file ?? I have lots of hollywood DVD's that are much longer than 1.5 hours....is there some settings in videostudio9 that I need to set that will allow me to burn more video onto a CD....on an easy beginner level?
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THoff
whytep, try playing the file that was captured by the ADS DVDXpressDX2 using Windows Media Player to see if you are satisfied with the quality.
If you are, then it will be relatively quick and simple to burn a DVD from it using Videostudio.
All you need to do is launch Videostudio, select Create Disk from the Share tab, and then select Add Video. As you browse for and then select the MPEG2 file, click on the Info button to see the capture parameters that were used by the ADS DVDXpressDX2. After you close the Info dialog and add the MPEG2 file to your DVD project, go to the Project Properties and set up the project to match the ADS DVDXpressDX2 capture properties EXACTLY.
What this does is eliminate an time-consuming recompression, and it will also ensure that the whole video will fit on a single-layer DVD.
The reason why Videostudio warned you previously that the project won't fit is because the default settings for a DVD used a higher bitrate than what the ADS DVDXpressDX2 captured with. If you have a 4 Mbps MPEG2 file and add it to a DVD project that is set for 8 Mbps video, then the output size will double, and a 4GB file would grow to 8GB.
If you are, then it will be relatively quick and simple to burn a DVD from it using Videostudio.
All you need to do is launch Videostudio, select Create Disk from the Share tab, and then select Add Video. As you browse for and then select the MPEG2 file, click on the Info button to see the capture parameters that were used by the ADS DVDXpressDX2. After you close the Info dialog and add the MPEG2 file to your DVD project, go to the Project Properties and set up the project to match the ADS DVDXpressDX2 capture properties EXACTLY.
What this does is eliminate an time-consuming recompression, and it will also ensure that the whole video will fit on a single-layer DVD.
The reason why Videostudio warned you previously that the project won't fit is because the default settings for a DVD used a higher bitrate than what the ADS DVDXpressDX2 captured with. If you have a 4 Mbps MPEG2 file and add it to a DVD project that is set for 8 Mbps video, then the output size will double, and a 4GB file would grow to 8GB.
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whytep
fit more on DVD
Thanks to both of you! The Explanation of what VideoStudio was doing and the link to the bitrates were both very helpful. And I am now able to make the long video seemingly fit on one DVD...tho I ran out of blank DVD's, so have not actually burned it yet or seen the quality....but at least I know how to make the changes....Thanks again.