CIPHER_one Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 Is it possible to burn over an hour of footage onto a DVD-R without the quality being decreased? Special DVD-R's that can only be ordered perhaps?? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnomeToys Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 DVD-DL discs are around twice the size of DVD-Rs. They require a burner that supports them and the discs themselves are pretty steep right now. I don't know what program you're using or what your source is, but many commerical movies with 120 minute running times will easily fit on a DVD-R without being lower quality than anything else, so you may want to look into what bitrate you're encoding at. If you're just playing on the computer, or have a DVD player that will support MPEG4 formats, you could always encode to high bitrate DivX like pirate releases do, and end up with somewhere around 12 hours on a single disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 an hour! damn you! that's 4.7 gigs of space. what the fuck are you burning to only be an hour? is it high def? wtf? sorry, but there's really alot of space on a dvd. you should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIPHER_one Posted September 7, 2005 Author Share Posted September 7, 2005 Well, if you look on the back of DVD-R's, they say: 1 Hour= XP Highest Quality 2 Hours= SP Good Quality 4 Hours= whatever Etc etc. Kind of like on a VHS...actually exactly like it. You know what I'm sayin? So anything over an hour it has to go down in quality.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 you should be fine with the sp setting is what i'm saying. it's the compression, etc you use on the film that makes or breaks it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnomeToys Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 That information is probably based on burning actual DV quality shit, not the MPEG2 that DVDs were made for. Marketing bullshit is strange these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIPHER_one Posted September 7, 2005 Author Share Posted September 7, 2005 Right on, I usually export as a quicktime file and I can up the quality for that, or i could export it as an Mpeg-2 or whatever. I'm not too familiar with the other formats, or which ones are better. any advice as far as that's concerned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 standard dvd video is mpeg-2. there are tons of formats you can use for dvd's with video on them... here's a super compact vcd thing i found did i mention near dvd quality on a cd? http://www.autogk.me.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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