3 Replies Latest reply: Aug 27, 2014 5:40 AM by Stan Jones RSS

    Settings for smaller sized videos in the DVD?

    HakanErn Community Member

      I have a large project from which I should make one or maximum two DVDs. I have exported the timelines from PP CC using the preset for MPEG2 DVDs (quality 75%, 720x576, framerate 25, min bitrate 2.8, target 5.0 maximum

      7.0)

      This makes the project too big - I need 10 DVDs to make this work...So what settings (or type of target video format) should I use to decrese the size 5 times to make this fit two DVDs?

       

      Thanks in advance!

      Håkan

        • 1. Re: Settings for smaller sized videos in the DVD?
          Stan Jones CommunityMVP

          The short answer may no "no way."

           

          Your average bitrate (all that matters for the "how much" question) is 5. That will put 114 minutes of PAL SD on a standard DVD with 192kb audio with pretty much nothing else. So if it will take 10 DVDs at that rate, you have about 1140 minutes, or 19 hours. If that is not what you have, what are your total minutes?

           

          Quality is terrible at Encore's minimum allowed which, I think, is 1.5. And that provides something under 6 hours per disk.

          • 2. Re: Settings for smaller sized videos in the DVD?
            HakanErn Community Member

            Stan, thanks a lot for your help - ot can well be so, that I have that much content. It is an originally online course, which I want to produce on DVD. IF I still goahead with my plans to produce this on as many DVDs as needed, is there to your knowledge, a function in Encore which can be used to divide the content into several DVDs automatically, or do I have to do it by creating let us say 10 projects?

            Thanks again!

            • 3. Re: Settings for smaller sized videos in the DVD?
              Stan Jones CommunityMVP

              No such function.

               

              I would look at the typical length in minutes of a segment (lesson?). If 40 minutes, you'd get 3 at 120 minutes per DVD quality. Use a bitrate calculator and then burn a short segment at that birate. See what you can live with. If your material is a talking head, you can live with a lower bitrate than action shots.

               

              DVD-HQ : Bitrate & GOP calculator

               

              Or use Jeff Pulera's shorthand: "When encoding MPEG-2 DVD in AME, a good way to estimate encoding rate is 560/minutes = rate."