Saving recording to DVD

[DaisyK]

I am struggling with fitting my recording to a DVD.

My church records the worship service to distribute to shut ins by DVD. Recently pastor has been extending her service to 1hr and 15 minutes. This past Sunday it was an hour and 18 minutes. I have not had problems fitting recording to a DVD which says holds 2hrs until I purchased VSX10. I'm just not understanding.

My camera is a Sony HDR-PJ580 20.4 MEGA PIXEL
Options are: Highest Quality FX, High Quality FH, Standard HQ or Long Time LP. I have the camera set on High Quality FH and have also used Standard HQ.
I can barely get 1hr and 1min on the DVD otherwise I am doing a lot of editing to bring it down that far. An hour and 18min will take a lot of cutting!

I am thinking it must be how I have VS10 set but I don't understand it well enough to know what setting is wrong. I am hoping someone here can tell me how to set the software in order to fit.

Much appreciate any help you can give me.

[asik1]

Hi, it doesn't matter with what setting you shoot, a DVD media can hold up to 4.5GB of stuff.
it can be 30minutes or 4 hours all you need is to adjust is your data rate (quality) of your output file.
I never do DVD as it's basically obsolete.
I think that 8MB is the setting for 60 min and 6MB is fine for 90, so you should go there.
Check this tool, but better add 5min to any calculation.
https://www.createspace.com/pub/l/bit_budget.do

[Ken Berry]

I think that 8MB is the setting for 60 min and 6MB is fine for 90, so you should go there.

I was a little confused when I first read asik's figures, and I suspect you might be too, thinking perhaps that he was saying a 60 minute project needed to be 8 MB in size, and a 90 minute one 6 MB. In fact, on re-reading his post, I'm sure asik meant to say that 8 Mbps (8 megabytes per second or 8000 kbps -- kilobytes per second) is the setting for a 60 minute project; and that 6 Mbps (or 6000 kbps) is what you should use if your project is about 90 minutes long.

If you use Dolby audio, you can usually add around 10 minutes more video to those times i.e. with Dolby, you can squeeze around 70 minutes of video onto a single layer DVD using a bitrate of 8000 kbps; and up to around 100 minutes using 6000 kbps.

You need to reduce the bitrate further if the project is longer than that. Using 4000 kbps means you can fit a 2 hour (or with Dolby 130 minutes) project on a single layer DVD, but the quality with that bitrate will only be around that of a VHS video tape.

[lata]

Hi

There are two options to burn a DVD.
1 / we can do that directly from the timeline by selecting Share – Disc – DVD
This will add the project to the burner module, the project will be converted / rendered to a temporary Mpeg2 file before being burnt to disc.
The conversion render settings are available from the Project Settings Cogwheel (lower Left)
Here you can customize the settings to reduce the data rate from 8000 to a lower rate say 7500
The green bar at the bottom shows the size of the project indicating if it will fit to disc.
The new settings will affect the green bar which should show all green not yellow and certainly not red.
The type of menu used can affect the file size, i would opt for the Text or Thumbnail options, as you are on the limit could just improve things.
Smart Menus are a little greedy.

2 / The second option is to create that Mpeg2 before entering the burner
From the timelines choose Share – Mpeg2
We can edit the template to reduce the default setting to lower the data rate. Hit the “+” symbol – compression tab to change the data rate.
Rendering your recordings from HD 1920 to SD 720 will impact on quality.
What are the properties of your recordings, right click a clip on the timeline for properties?
The resultant Mpeg2 can be played to check quality
Then start a new project- Share Dics-DVD adding the Mpeg2 to the burner module will avoid further rendering as in option 1.
A setting in F6 Preferences…………
– Edit tab – Resample Quality to Best seemed to help with my work, although it’s a while since I burnt a DVD.
Some further info on this approach……….
http://lata.me.uk/corel/all.htm