how do I get 30mins worth of vid onto a DVD

frankski · Post by **frankski** » Fri May 20, 2011 9:37 pm

Having been out and videoed a sporting event I find I have approaching 30 mins worth o0f footage and find it hard to edit to much less than that and frankly dont want to.
However, I think that it will be too long to fit on a DVD disc but there must be a way to do it.
Perhaps im too stupid to see how to do this on VideoStudio Pro X2 but I dont see how. consequently im STUCK !
HELP anyone, please.
Frankski

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri May 20, 2011 10:37 pm

No problemo! The rule-of-thumb is that you can fit an hour of high-quality video (6000kbps standard definition) with uncompressed LPCM audio on a single-layer DVD. Or, 90 minutes if you use Dolby AC3 audio. (Most commercial DVDs are dual-layer.)

You just need to set-up Video Studio* to make a "video DVD", and it will convert your video to the proper format. DVDs use MPEG-2 compression which is more compressed than AVI/DV (from a Mini-DV camera) and less compressed than MPEG-4. (I'm guessing that you have a DV file that is too large for a DVD, but it's not in a DVD-compatible format anyway...)

You can sqeeze more playing-time onto a DVD, but you have to use a lower bitrate, and at some point quality starts to suffer.

* I don't own X2... I think DVD authoring/burning is built-in. X3 was a minor fiasco.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri May 20, 2011 11:16 pm

You don't say what format your camcorder films in. If it is standard definition, that is fine. But if it is a high definition model, then to burn a video DVD it will have to be converted to standard definition mpeg-2 which is the DVD format.

frankski · Post by **frankski** » Sat May 21, 2011 9:39 pm

DVDDoug wrote:No problemo! The rule-of-thumb is that you can fit an hour of high-quality video (6000kbps standard definition) with uncompressed LPCM audio on a single-layer DVD. Or, 90 minutes if you use Dolby AC3 audio. (Most commercial DVDs are dual-layer.)

You just need to set-up Video Studio* to make a "video DVD", and it will convert your video to the proper format. DVDs use MPEG-2 compression which is more compressed than AVI/DV (from a Mini-DV camera) and less compressed than MPEG-4. (I'm guessing that you have a DV file that is too large for a DVD, but it's not in a DVD-compatible format anyway...)

You can sqeeze more playing-time onto a DVD, but you have to use a lower bitrate, and at some point quality starts to suffer.

* I don't own X2... I think DVD authoring/burning is built-in. X3 was a minor fiasco.

Hi Doug lad
Many thanks, i'll give it a gogo as my cam, a Cannon Legria saves in mpeg so it must be my x2 setup.
Many thanks for a swift reply. Will report backski
Frankski

frankski · Post by **frankski** » Sat May 21, 2011 9:43 pm

Ken Berry wrote:You don't say what format your camcorder films in. If it is standard definition, that is fine. But if it is a high definition model, then to burn a video DVD it will have to be converted to standard definition mpeg-2 which is the DVD format.

Hi Ken,
Many thanks for the info, me being a neewbee an'all.
My Cam is Cannon Legria and does its stuff in mpeg so I shall give it a go and see what happens.
Will report back in a day or 2 just so you know.
Cheers...........Frankski

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