Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 08/16/07 21:13

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:06:56 -0700, Richard Lane <rqlhgl@iieee.org>
wrote:

>I have ~3 hrs of miniDV video captured as four .mp3 files and would like
>to produce a single layer DVD (4.38Gb). Much of the material is a
>discussion with little motion but 30 mins is a yacht race with lots of
>motion. How best to compress the 2+ hrs of discussion and burn it to DVD
>that includes the HQ clip? I captured and will be editing with Power
>Director 5 deluxe.
>(1) Can DVD Shrink be of help?
>(2) Should I have captured discussion part at LP bit rate?


You won't need to use LP, if you can find a setting in your DVD
preparation software which is labelled "VBR" or "Variable bitrate"

This allows segments of the video with high motion to "steal" bitrate
from those sections with lower motion. Over the entire DVD , you might
only average 4-6mbps but that's compensating for the yacht footage
which might have peaks requiring 8mbps or more to encode well.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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