Me again! Thanks for the tip oldfart, from a previous thread:
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Are you doing real time MPEG2 capture/compression? If so, that explains the bad quality. You need to capture as a full quality AVI, then compress with a good MPEG2/DVD encoder program.
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I have now started capturing full DV quality footage as .avi from my DV camera via a FireWire. Then I compress this footage to .mpg using a custom compression of:
Frame Size: 720 x 480, Frame Rate: 29.97 fps, Bit Rate 4.00 mbps.
Audio: 44100 Hz, Stereo, 16 Bit.
This gives me well-compressed, yet watchable footage, of size 529kb/second.
At this point, I thought I had succeeded on my quest to fit 120 minutes of footage onto a 4.7GB DVD. However... It turns out I was wrong. When I went to "create DVD", and drag/dropped a 675MB (22 minute long) film into the box, it listed it as 1862.85MB, or Disc Usage - 39% of 4.7GB.
This means that despite the compression, I am still on course for a mere 55 minutes footage on the DVD.
Please excuse my ignorance as I'm fairly new to all of this 😱 but I do not understand why my file is listed as 675MB in the library, but 1862.85MB when it comes to the DVD burning set-up.
What do I need to burn more footage onto 4.7GB than this paltry 55 mins ? 😛
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Are you doing real time MPEG2 capture/compression? If so, that explains the bad quality. You need to capture as a full quality AVI, then compress with a good MPEG2/DVD encoder program.
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I have now started capturing full DV quality footage as .avi from my DV camera via a FireWire. Then I compress this footage to .mpg using a custom compression of:
Frame Size: 720 x 480, Frame Rate: 29.97 fps, Bit Rate 4.00 mbps.
Audio: 44100 Hz, Stereo, 16 Bit.
This gives me well-compressed, yet watchable footage, of size 529kb/second.
At this point, I thought I had succeeded on my quest to fit 120 minutes of footage onto a 4.7GB DVD. However... It turns out I was wrong. When I went to "create DVD", and drag/dropped a 675MB (22 minute long) film into the box, it listed it as 1862.85MB, or Disc Usage - 39% of 4.7GB.
This means that despite the compression, I am still on course for a mere 55 minutes footage on the DVD.
Please excuse my ignorance as I'm fairly new to all of this 😱 but I do not understand why my file is listed as 675MB in the library, but 1862.85MB when it comes to the DVD burning set-up.
What do I need to burn more footage onto 4.7GB than this paltry 55 mins ? 😛
