What is the maximum in hours that can be rendered to a DVD using 480 lines or MPEG2 1080 lines? Is putting 4 hours on a DVD doable?
Your input is appreciated.
DVD capacity?
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AnimeChick
What is the quality of your source video? Codec, bitrate, framerate, resolution, etc...
If all your source footage was from VCD's, then you could put about 6 hours onto a DVD5 disc without losing any quality.
But if your source videos are of higher quality (which I guess they are because you mentioned 480 and 1080), then it comes down to what will be acceptable in terms of quality at lower bitrates (the quality of the encoder helps also).
The lower you go with bitrates, the more time you can get onto a disc (but quality starts to suffer as you go too low).
4 Hours would be doable, but you would have to use settings like 192kbps audio with about 2300kbps video (or some combination of video+audio at about 2500kbps). So try a small 10-20 minute section of your source video and encode using those settings (or similar). Then burn to ±RW disc and see if the quality meets your standards (try a 2-pass VBR encode to try and squeeze out as much quality as possible).
If all your source footage was from VCD's, then you could put about 6 hours onto a DVD5 disc without losing any quality.
But if your source videos are of higher quality (which I guess they are because you mentioned 480 and 1080), then it comes down to what will be acceptable in terms of quality at lower bitrates (the quality of the encoder helps also).
The lower you go with bitrates, the more time you can get onto a disc (but quality starts to suffer as you go too low).
4 Hours would be doable, but you would have to use settings like 192kbps audio with about 2300kbps video (or some combination of video+audio at about 2500kbps). So try a small 10-20 minute section of your source video and encode using those settings (or similar). Then burn to ±RW disc and see if the quality meets your standards (try a 2-pass VBR encode to try and squeeze out as much quality as possible).
George
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Grandpajack
DVD Capacity
Thank you both for the responce!
Quality is a major consideration. It looks like a 2 hour DVD is the way I have to go.
Quality is a major consideration. It looks like a 2 hour DVD is the way I have to go.