Saved location of a created Menu

[canuck]

Have you played that 4 hour DL DVD yet? I would think the quality would be quite reduced from the best quality. A DL DVD can only hold less then 2 hours of best quality video. Your 4 hour video must therefore have a lot of compression (reduced bitrate) and reduced quality.

[Bimbing]

Hi Ken, Yes I have played that 4-hr DVD on +R DL already, using a Blu Ray player and LED-HDTV. The video image is better than that played on my LCD TV monitor.
The disk is Verbatim and it claims to hold 8.5 GB and 240 min of material. I thought if you have a 2-hr .mpg project you just burn it on a regular(single layer) DVD +-R and not on a double layer disk? Attached is the label of the disk I used which I cropped to meet forum the max size requirement.

[Ken Berry]

It was canuck and not me who made the comment about the DL disc. And the point he was making was that 2 hours of video on a single layer DVD or 4 hours on a dual layer disc would not be high quality. That is because, to fit that amount on either disc, would require reducing the bitrate considerably. Since bitrate also equates to quality, reducing the bitrate also means reducing the quality. As a general guide, using a high quality bitrate of of 8000 kbps, you could only burn 1 hour of high quality video to a single layer DVD or 2 hours to a dual layer DVD. To burn 2 hours to a single layer -- or 4 hours to a dual layer DVD, as you have -- would require you to reduce the bitrate to around 4000 kbps. And that sort of bitrate would only be equivalent to VHS tape quality.

But if in the end, you were satisfied with the result, that is all that matters.

[Bimbing]

Thanks, Ken

[Bimbing]

Have you played that 4 hour DL DVD yet? I would think the quality would be quite reduced from the best quality. A DL DVD can only hold less then 2 hours of best quality video. Your 4 hour video must therefore have a lot of compression (reduced bitrate) and reduced quality.

I reconsidered and divided my 4-hr project into 2 2-hr DVD (actually about 1 hr 30 min each), each about 5.2 GB. Each was burnt on the +R DL disk. The burning process is now different and faster. You are right, when I played the DVD, the video is sharper, crispier, and cleaner than the 4-hr DVD before......
Thanks, Ken for your comment

[Bimbing]

Have you played that 4 hour DL DVD yet? I would think the quality would be quite reduced from the best quality. A DL DVD can only hold less then 2 hours of best quality video. Your 4 hour video must therefore have a lot of compression (reduced bitrate) and reduced quality.

Hi Canuck, Sorry for the confusing as I responded to your posting and sent it to Ken....
Yes, as I commented to Ken, when I divided the 4-hr DVD into 2 about 2-hr DVDs and played each of them, the video is cleaner, sharper and crispier. Now I could see the difference: compared to the split in half DVD, the 4-hr DVD was duller and people's faces in the mid range was a bit blurred.... Thanks, for your remarks.

[Bimbing]

Hi Bimbing

This is the process I use.

1 / Share Create Video file DVD, this renders my project/s to a mpeg2 video file/s.
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Please note because we are using compliant Mpeg2 video files, when we press burn the process starts with Convert Menu.
There should NOT be Convert Title because of the type of files we are using. (Mpeg2 Compliant for DVD)
Again the total Gb size of all mpeg2 files should be below 4.3 Gb
Hope this helps.

Trevor, as I indicated to Ken and Canuck, I divided my 4-hr project of .mpg files into 2 disk of about 5.2 GB and 1 hr 25 min each and burned on +R DL disks. Now it took just 11 min to burn each of them. As you said it began immediately with Convert Menu, then Video/Audio Multiplexing, and Finalizing VOB files. Before, with the 4-hr .mpg files and burned on +R DL it started with Convert Files, etc and it took a good 3 hr to burn