I am near completion of an approximately hour long documentary. I need however to then burn the entire documentary and a few extras to dvd. The DVD has a capacity of 4.7 GB, and the size of the film greatly exceeds this. I wanted to know if there was any way i could burn the film onto dvd without using multiple discs or losing the fantastic quality which i can presently see.
Thanks in advance
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An hour of footage at best possible quality for a DVD is about 4GB. So you should have plenty of space?
I think the original poster is confused between the raw file size and the DVD encoded file size. iMovie and iDVD will churn away for a long time turning 20 gig projects into 4 gig projects. I would assume other programs do more or less the same thing.
Even the earliest versions of the Mac software could handle 90s minutes without real compression (and thus extra processing time).
If your movie is only an hour you should have no problem.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
My feature - 94min, 106GB uncompressed - is compressed to 2.4GB when using MPEG-2, the standard compression for DVD's.
Try compressing it using MPEG-2.
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thanks alot for your advice, i'll have a go when the film is finished
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