Fitting a Large Movie onto a DVD

Hello All,

I have edited my movie (1 hour 48 mins) in Power Director 4, and have encoded it as a MPEG to my hard drive.

I have two options on encoding;


Option one: HQ DVD (PAL) which records at full DV1 resolution (8Mbps)
or
Option two: SP DVD (PAL) which records at half DV1 resolution (3.4Mbps)

Option one (HQ) makes the output MPEG 6.1GB (which does not fit on a 4.7GB DVD)
Option two (SP) makes the output MPEG 2.6GB (which does fit on a 4.7GB DVD)

My problem is that I want to use the high quality version, but it will not fit on a DVD.

How can I fit the HQ on a DVD?

I am certainly no expert, so was looking for a simple solution (if there is one!)

I still have the original pre encoded edit in Power Director 4 incase encoding to a different format is needed.

Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Donhinio.

 

The simple solution is to encode it at HQ, then use DVDShrink to make it fit.

 

if you stil have the original dv then the new vso divx to dvd 2 lets you encode to dvd based on a 'to fit' method. so you would chose the 'to fit '4.7 or dvd5.


this way no compression is used and it will encode to the highest bitrate for that method. which is dvd5 encoding.


dvd shrinks compression i find produces some strange artifacts when the camera is panning. even with 2 passes.

 

Sukie,

I have used DivX to DVD, but when there are shots containing panning, very slight horizontal lines appear briefly on the image....

Regards,
Donhinio.

 

thats a condition called interlacing, when your authoring your dvd for dvd pal, make shure your field order is set to lowest field first.

 

Where do I find the settings to change my field order, and what exactly is it.

Thanks again...