Fitting 2 1/2 hour footage on DVD

Kenny Q wrote on 5/26/2009, 12:45 PM

I usually have less than an hour footage to burn on a DVD with DVDA.

This time I have 2 1/2 hours and I would like to know if I need to render it in Vegas in some kind of different way so that the quality is still good but still fits on the DVD.

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musicvid10 wrote on 5/26/2009, 1:07 PM

You can fit 2-1/2 hours on a standard DVD at 3.8Mbs average bitrate assuming one 224kbs stereo audio track and not a lot of menu media.

Whether the quality is good enough is entirely up to your taste.

Note: DVDA will usually overestimate the prepared folder size and ask to render. The way around this is to ignore the messages, Prepare (not Burn) the files, then re-open the Project. DVDA will now report the correct (actual) folder size for burning.

Kenny Q wrote on 5/27/2009, 11:00 AM

Thanks