I'm a relatively new user to VS8 (only made one DVD so far) and I can't find the answer to this question anywhere. I have a 2 hour and 38 minute video and a single layer DVD burner. Will VS8 prompt me to insert another DVD when it fills the first one or do I have to separate this video into different projects? I would prefer to burn at highest quality, although I'll consider burning it at good (90 minutes) if I won't notice much quality loss on my TV. I prefer not to compress the video, as I don't have software that will do that.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Burning one project to multiple DVDs in VS8
Moderator: Ken Berry
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THoff
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olliekl
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Trevor Andrew
Hi
I may be wrong but after reading your comments it would appear that you are burning a dvd from your project. Although ulead do describe this method, there are many that feel creating a video file first, then using the new file to burn a dvd is a better choice.
Read the top postings recommendations:- http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=27
If you want to maintain top quality then you can only expect to get approx one hour of video onto a dvd.
Your video is 2 hr 38 min 3 discs will be required.
At this length I suspect that the source footage may be a Vhs tape, not top quality anyway.
On the other hand reducing the quality is not as drastic as it sounds, and may not be that noticeable when played back.
I would suggest you split your project into two adding titles to the start and finish.
Render the two files. At 80 minutes each, a bitrate of 6000 Kbps will be very good quality.
If you want to be more precise use a bit-rate calculator:- http://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html
As for hard drive space. If you are burning from the project, vs uses temporary files, if you create a video file first, this will be the same size as the temp files.
But burning from the new video file does not need temp files.
Basically the amount of used memory is about the same. ( I THINK)
Hope this helps
I may be wrong but after reading your comments it would appear that you are burning a dvd from your project. Although ulead do describe this method, there are many that feel creating a video file first, then using the new file to burn a dvd is a better choice.
Read the top postings recommendations:- http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=27
If you want to maintain top quality then you can only expect to get approx one hour of video onto a dvd.
Your video is 2 hr 38 min 3 discs will be required.
At this length I suspect that the source footage may be a Vhs tape, not top quality anyway.
On the other hand reducing the quality is not as drastic as it sounds, and may not be that noticeable when played back.
I would suggest you split your project into two adding titles to the start and finish.
Render the two files. At 80 minutes each, a bitrate of 6000 Kbps will be very good quality.
If you want to be more precise use a bit-rate calculator:- http://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html
As for hard drive space. If you are burning from the project, vs uses temporary files, if you create a video file first, this will be the same size as the temp files.
But burning from the new video file does not need temp files.
Basically the amount of used memory is about the same. ( I THINK)
Hope this helps